The original Glass Records was a UK Independent record label operated from 1981 to 1989. Created by myself, David Barker, early releases focused on artists from Northampton (Religious Overdose, Where's Lisse? & The Jazz Butcher), and the Midlands (Nikki Sudden, Bron Area & In Embrace). The label released several records by artists having later associations with other London-based labels: Creation Records (The Jazz Butcher and Nikki Sudden & the Jacobites) ; Fire Records (Spacemen 3 and The Perfect Disaster). In other words, I found em first, and they nicked them hahaa. Glass's mainstay acts were The Pastels, (who I nicked from Creation because they wanted to make an LP and Alan & Dick couldn't do that at the time), In Embrace and The Jazz Butcher. The label also issued material by Bauhaus member David J, The Membranes, American Alternative Punk Gods The Replacements, and the influential Liverpool Ur-grunge Walkingseeds.
The Glass Records Story - Dave Barker - Interview by Iain McNay - 2009
I closed the label in 1990 to work for Fire Records, creating the Paperhouse label, taking the Walkingseeds with me, also releasing the first Teenage Fanclub album, set up a singles only label Seminal Twang and afterwards moved to Creation Records. But those are different stories for a different day.
GLASS REDUX
I resurrected Glass Records in 2015 as Glass Redux, to reissue some of the old catalogue, unreleased material, rarities, new material from associated and former artists on the label, and cult figures from the International Rock'n'roll underground, past, present & future.
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The Glass Records Story - Dave Barker - Interview by Iain McNay - 2009
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