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Making music available was not always as straight-forward as it is now...

We sponsor a few gates in the Chiltern Hills, which makes for a great walk!

One of the early visitors to our office in Kensington Gardens Square was a young, very enthusiastic Alan McGee...

Ah, signing to Cherry Red. The dearest ambition of every 1980s indie band! The ultimate goal for dynamic songwriting teams with world conquest on their minds!

MOJO journalist Dave Henderson to look at the fabled Tea Chest Tapes – the unheard archive of recordings from legendary producer Joe Meek…

Forget El Clasico, the meeting of the Merseyside giants or the Old Firm rumble… 

It’s fair to say that whatever success we had with él was not the consequence of heavy gigging, be it at home or abroad.

Cherry Red Records began operations in 1978 as a fledgling independent label under the guidance of Iain McNay....

By 1978 I’d had it up to here with major record companies....

The Fall and record labels; record labels and the Fall . . . one of the great pop quiz questions of all time – just how many labels did they record for?

It is 1981. I am seeing Toyah play live. For the first time I am actually in the same room as her, albeit a very large room...

John Hollingsworth became Cherry Red’s A&R man after the departure of Mike Alway in the mid 1980s...