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Video: Open Recording Session at Manchester Central Library

Open Recording Sessions, Richard Barry, Snowapple, T.E. Yates, The Bedlam Six

As part of Manchester After Hours 2015, we held an Open Recording Session in the Henry Watson Music Room of the Central Library. The session featured a specially formed label supergroup drawn from artists and bands on the label roster, including Richard Barry, Tom Cleghorn, Fanny de Ruiter, Felix Hagan, Fran Lydiatt and T. E. Yates. The song was written by Louis Barabbas and Felix Hagan to mark the 90th anniversary of the publication of Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs Dalloway”.

The video was made by Marta Niemyjska and edited by Matilda Smith.

You can also read a behind the scenes blog about the collaboration.

Five Years In Debt

Alabaster dePlume, Becca Williams, Felix Hagan & The Family, Honeyfeet, Ivan Campo, Louis Barabbas, Richard Barry, Snowapple, T.E. Yates, Walk

Five Years In DebtTo 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.

Christmas In Hospitals

Alabaster dePlume, Felix Hagan & The Family, T.E. Yates, The Bedlam Six

Music In HospitalsThough 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.