- Beggars Banquet Records
Beggars Banquet is an English
independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned byMartin Mills andNick Austin , and is part of theBeggars Group of labels. In 1977, spurred by the prevailing DIY aesthetics of the Britishpunk rock movement (then at the height of its popularity), they decided to join the fray as an independent label and release records under the Beggars Banquet imprint.cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin |title=The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave Music |year= 1992 |publisher=Guinness Publishing |isbn=0-85112-579-4 ] The first band on the label was English punk groupThe Lurkers ; the first ever release on the label was The Lurkers' punk classic Shadow/Love Story 7" single. Later in the decade and into the early '80s, hits withTubeway Army andGary Numan secured the label's future. They have since released music byBiffy Clyro ,Buffalo Tom , The Charlatans,The Cult ,The Go-Betweens ,The National andTindersticks . In 2008, Beggars Banquet became a catalog label only, closed to new signings. Artists that remained on their roster were shifted over to affiliate label,4AD .The label became the start point for what is now The
Beggars Group , an umbrella group of iconic indie record labels. It is the largest and most influential independent group of labels in Europe Fact|date=April 2008 and4AD ,Matador Records ,Rough Trade Records andXL Recordings are the four main labels that now form the group. The group is managed byMartin Mills , Managing DirectorPaul Redding and non-executiveAndy Heath Their main offices are in the UK with a large satellite office in New York City. The labels are distributed byAlternative Distribution Alliance in theUnited States .Current and former signings
* The Associates
* Bauhaus
*The Beekeepers
*Bettie Serveert
*Biffy Clyro
*The Bolshoi
*Bowery Electric
*Buffalo Tom
*John Cale
* Calla
* The Charlatans
*The Cult
*Dead Fly Buchowski
*Devastations
*Died Pretty
*Dream City Film Club
* The Early Years
* The Fall
*Fields of the Nephilim
* Film School
*Flesh For Lulu
* Robert Forster
*Freeez
*Gene Loves Jezebel
* Goat
*The Go-Betweens
*The Gun Club
*iLiKETRAiNS
*Mark Lanegan Band
* Arthur Lee
*The London Apartments
* Love and Rockets
* Luna
* Main
*Morrissey-Mullen
* The National
*Nico
*Gary Numan
*Oceansize
*The Ramones
* Spirit
* St. Vincent
* Swell
*Sun Dial
*Terminal Power Company
*Tindersticks
*Voxtrot See also
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List of record labels
*List of independent UK record labels References
External links
* [http://www.beggars.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.beggarsgroupusa.com/ American site]
* [http://www.beggarsgroup.ca/ Canadian site]
* [http://beggarsgroup.de/ German site] (German)
* [http://beggarsjapan.com/ Japanese site] (Japanese)
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