Does anybody remember Fierce records?

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Based in Wales.

Acts on the label : Pooh Sticks, ...

Scams : Jesus and Mary Chain, JAMMS, ...

Where did they go?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I wrote a feature about the label last year sometime. I could dig it out and email it to you if you want...

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, you'd be a pal.

I used to 'correspond' with them, i.e. I'd order a single/boxset or whatever, and someone'd always write a personal reply (short/long whatever). My favourite reply was one that said "Glen Branca ... USED TO BE IN THE BEACH BOYS?? PHILISTINE!" (heh, I knew that was glen Campbell, but just asking Who's Glen Branca would be too dull).

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. The *50* copies edition of some Glen Branca live LP... I'm not up on these things but can only assume that to be some sort of collectorskum holy grail. Anyways I'll find the feature tonight.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I was talking about fierce recently. I found the ride live 7" in a local store (it was a little too battered to buy, mind!). They sounded nuts!

― Mark Harris, Monday, 22 March 2004 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The last I heard i heard Seve Gregory was living in Holland..

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Monday, 22 March 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

www.lowdownkids.com is his website.

Initially he was just dealing records, we emailed a bunch around 2000, and he'd send all these people looking for info about the Desperate Bicycles and Homosexuals to me. I ordered some records and he made me a mix tape...which was super nice of him but also standard practice in the days pre-Hyped2Death, I guess, make a tape of 20 songs and chances are I'll end up buying a few 20 dollar DIY 7"s or something. His main interest these days seems to be really obscure power-pop. Anyway, he started a "virtual bootleg" where he'd put up mp3s or realaudio of songs in the format of a 2 sided LP, with picture sleeve and a nice little blurb and leave it up for a while. Go to the above website and you can see both the sale lists and the "bootleg."

Steve was also the svengali behind the Pooh Sticks apparently, something the press often misses. Like, he not only released their records, but wrote many of the lyrics, designed the packages, came up with the jokes etc.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 22 March 2004 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah...his old website, before he got the lowdownkids url, had a great history/discography of Fierce, maybe it's cached somewhere or something.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 22 March 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

definitely search: the Amelia Fletcher disco 45 and the Nightblooms' phenomenal "crystal eyes".

Opalmusic still carries quite a few of the releases.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 22 March 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

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