An independent record label based in Manchester
Felix Hagan features as a member of the post-apocalyptic band in ITV’s new dystopian rom-com “Cockroaches”.
He joins old friend Jack Whitehall (whose chat show Felix wrote the music for last year), as well as veteran performers like Nigel Planer, formerly of “The Young Ones’.
The series airs on Tuesdays at 10pm on ITV2.
To celebrate our fifth year as a label we will be putting on a big show at the Dancehouse Theatre in Manchester.
The Dancehouse was also the prestigious venue for our launch night back in 2009.
The event will take place on Friday 18th July and feature performances from Honeyfeet, Snowapple, Felix Hagan & The Family, Walk, T. E. Yates, Ivan Campo, Richard Barry, Becca Williams, Alabaster dePlume and Louis Barabbas.
Tickets are available from the Dancehouse Theatre box office.
The new record by Felix Hagan & The Family is now on general release, available through all the usual digital retailers plus selected physical outlets.
What people are saying about this release:
“It’s original, it’s clever, it tiptoes along the line between kitsch and parody and successfully skips past both into excellence by way of its sheer, unashamed, joie de vivre.”
– Frank Turner
“Showcases one of the strongest weapon’s in Hagan’s arsenal, that being the ability to write a mountain-sized chorus that will burrow its way into your ear and not leave for a good while.”
– Sabotage Times
Buy “String Up The Entertainer” from Felix Hagan and The Family’s online store.
Though not as evergreen as the trees they are sung around, Christmas carols can survive a bit of reinterpretation from time to time. So it is with great pleasure that we announce a compilation of classic Yuletide numbers on one record, released in the second (Bleak Mid-)Week of December.
All proceeds from the release will go to the wonderful charity Music In Hospitals, an organisation that a number of our artists work with.
The album includes the choir-rock stylings of Felix Hagan & The Family’s “Gaudete,” T.E. Yates’ “Little Drummer Boy,” The Bedlam Six’s sleazed-up “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,” Alabaster dePlume’s “Away In A Manger” and many other aural stocking fillers from our roster of artists.
Music In Hospitals (MIH) is a charity whose mission is to improve the quality of life for adults and children with all kinds of illness and disability through the joy and therapeutic benefits of professionally performed live music in hospitals, hospices, day care centres, special schools, nursing and residential homes.
Needless to say, Christmas is a time when people in hospitals need as much cheer as possible.
It is with great pleasure that we announce a new edition to our wonderful roster: Felix Hagan & The Family.
This lot have been on our radar for a while. They played one of their first ever shows on our Debt stage at Liverpool’s Threshold Festival, then went on to support Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six at the London launch of “Memoir Noir” earlier this year. Felix and Louis met up again a few months ago to record a duet and subsequently film a comically pugilistic music video at Liverpool’s Rydal Gym (more information about that on Louis’ blog).
The Family are a phenomenal live band, employing unashamedly spectacular musicianship accompanied by just the right amount of tongue-in-cheek.
Their first release on Debt will be an EP (featuring the aforementioned duet) early next year. In the meantime check out Felix’s superb debut album “Dawn Breaks, The Monster Awakes…” – be sure to have a look at the individual track artwork created by long-time friend of Debt Sam Alder.
Here is the video for “Dirty Little Urchin Child” (directed by another Debt veteran, Joe Mannion):
For more information about Felix Hagan & The Family, visit their website.