Fire Records (UK)
Fire Records is a British independent record label headquartered in London, England, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Japan. The label was founded by music journalist Johnny Waller and Clive Solomon in 1985 and released early records from Pulp, Teenage Fanclub (on subsidiary label Paperhouse), Spacemen 3 (formerly on Glass Records), Blue Aeroplanes, Lives of Angels and others. In the early 1990s, the label was home to Neutral Milk Hotel, The Lemonheads, Built to Spill, Urge Overkill and others. After slowing down, the label was taken over in the late 1990s by current label head James Nicholls, and has released records by Guided By Voices, Giant Sand, Pere Ubu, Mission of Burma, Wooden Wand, Opossom, Blank Realm, and Surf City.
Current roster
AC Newman
Archers of Loaf
Bailter Space
Bardo Pond
Blank Realm
Boston Spaceships
Cardinal
Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power
Ned Collette + Wirewalker
Bobby Conn
Danielson
Richard Davies
Ryan Driver
ESG
Jad Fair
Josephine Foster
The Garbage and the Flowers