Electric Honey
Electric Honey was founded in 1992 and is Glasgow Kelvin College's in-house record label run by Ken McCluskey (The Bluebells), Douglas MacIntyre (Creeping Bent) and formerly Alan Rankine (The Associates) along with students from the HNC/D Music Business course. The label celebrated its 25th year in 2017 with many events including the release of the debut album "Any Joy" from Scottish six-piece indie rock band; "Pronto Mama." The label was described by Uncut magazine as being "The most successful student-run label in the world", thanks to the history of artists having releases with the imprint, including Belle & Sebastian, Snow Patrol and Biffy Clyro. The 2012 album 'Self Help' by Young Aviators became the biggest selling CD album in the labels history.
Electric Honey
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- Electric Honey
- Founder
- Stow College
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- United Kingdom
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Electric Honey was founded in 1992 and is Glasgow Kelvin College's in-house record label run by Ken McCluskey (The Bluebells), Douglas MacIntyre (Creeping Bent) and formerly Alan Rankine (The Associates) along with students from the HNC/D Music Business course. The label celebrated its 25th year in 2017 with many events including the release of the debut album "Any Joy" from Scottish six-piece indie rock band; "Pronto Mama." The label was described by Uncut magazine as being "The most successful student-run label in the world", thanks to the history of artists having releases with the imprint, including Belle & Sebastian, Snow Patrol and Biffy Clyro. The 2012 album 'Self Help' by Young Aviators became the biggest selling CD album in the labels history.
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Affiliate labels were also run under Electric Honey for a period of time. Gdansk, which released electronic-based artists and Root 8 which specialised in world music.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Electric Honey • Parent — Glasgow Kelvin College • Founded — 1992 • Founder — Stow College • Distributor — Cargo • Genre — Alternative • Country — United Kingdom • Location — Glasgow, Scotland • Url — Electric Honey
Early years
Early years
The label was founded by staff at Stow College with the idea of creating a platform for students in the HNC/D Music Business course, to gain the experience of working firsthand with record company operations, while also having a hand in the creation of a thriving music scene within Scotland by releasing local artists. The first release was in 1993 with Baby Chaos, later known as Deckard, and their Buzz EP. Baby Chaos would then go on to receive considerable recognition from their releases with their 1996 album Love Your Self Abuse, being named one of Kerrang!s 100 Greatest British Rock Albums Ever. The 1995 release of The Moondials, featured Stevie Jackson on guitar, who would go on to join Belle & Sebastian alongside Stuart Murdoch later that year.
Belle and Sebastian
Belle and Sebastian
Electric Honey's first success came with the release of the label's first album release in 1996, Belle & Sebastian's Tigermilk, named after a track originally written for, but left out from, the album. Formed by Stuart Murdoch and Stuart David, later joined with Stevie Jackson, Belle & Sebastian formed in Glasgow in early 1996, recording their first demos in Stow College. Murdoch was involved early on with the University of Glasgow's Subcity Radio. Originally limited to 1000 copies on Electric Honey, the album was picked up by Jeepster Records who re-released it in 1999, and is now often cited as a classic influential album, with "The State I Am In" being placed at number 17 on Pitchfork Media's top 200 tracks of the 1990s. Belle and Sebastian recently played a special gig at Winfield House- the London residence of the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol
Originally called Polarbear, Snow Patrol are the most successful of Electric Honey's signings having sold ten million albums worldwide. The band formed in Glasgow while front-man Gary Lightbody worked in the Glasgow venue Nice 'n' Sleazys. Starfighter Pilot came five years before their big selling album Final Straw, and featured Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch on piano and backing vocals. Starfighter Pilot was later featured on the band's debut album Songs for Polarbears and re-released as a single through Jeepster Records.
Biffy Clyro
Biffy Clyro
Biffy Clyro were signed to the label while they were students at Stow College. In 2000, they released their debut EP Thekidswhopoptodaywillrocktomorrow through Electric Honey, featuring the tracks "57" and "Justboy". Both tracks reappeared on the band's debut album release, Blackened Sky, through Beggars Banquet Records.
Label Timeline
Label Timeline
• Artist/Band — Year — Release • Baby Chaos — 1993 — Buzz EP • Eight Miles High — 1993 — Go Single • The Moondials — 1995 — Can You See? Single • Belle and Sebastian — 1996 — Tigermilk Album • Polar Bear (Snow Patrol) — 1997 — Starfighter Pilot Single • Flow — 1998 — I Can Love You Single • Rob (Rayon) Alexandra — 1999 — Crystal Ball Single • Biffy Clyro — 2000 — Thekidswhopoptodaywillrocktomorrow EP • Pupkin — 2001 — Morning Light EP • Policechief — 2002 — Coup De Grace Single • Odeon Beatclub — 2003 — Behind My Eyes Single • Poor Old Ben — 2004 — Another Day EP • Clearfall — 2005 — Sculpt.Paint.Sketch Single • How to Swim — 2006 — The Little Orgasm EP • Various Artists — 2007 — Thank you for being you Album • Wake The President — 2007 — Sorrows for Clothes Single Mail, Alice Single Remember Fun Single I'm Sorry Single Miss Tierney Single You Can't Change That Boy Single You Can't Change That Boy Album Elaine Single • State Broadcasters — 2008 — The Ship and the Iceberg Album Let's Male T-shirts Single • Je Suis Animal — 2008 — Fortune Map Single • The Kingfishers — 2008 — Make Me Sad Single • Woodenbox with a Fistful of Fivers — 2010 — Home and the Wildhunt Album Besides The point Single Twisted Mile Single • White Heath — 2010 — 7.38 am Single Take No Thought for Tomorrow GG Single When the Watchmen Leave their Station Single • French Wives — 2011 — Numbers Single Dream of the Inbetween Younger • Miniature Dinosaurs — 2011 — Fight or Flight Single • Young Aviators — 2012 — The Question Is? Single Self Help • Alex Hynes — 2013 — Slow Your Breath EP • Harry and the Hendersons — 2013 — Give Me Proof Single • Schnarff Schnarff — 2014 — Schnarff Schnarff EP • Apache Sun — 2015 — Apache Sun EP • Finn Le Marinel — 2015 — Love is Waves EP • Yacouba Sissoko — 2015 — Ti Mangala Ki Album • Be Charlotte — 2016 — Discover Single • Sunshine Social — 2016 — Reduce to Dust Album • The Claramassa — 2016 — Being Alive EP • Pronto Mama — 2017 — Arabesque Single Any Joy • Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 — 2018 — Peace, Love & Mustard EP • Toni Woods — 2018 — Better Man Single • The Nickajack Men — 2018 — Changed Ways Single • Flew The Arrow — 2019 — Come The Wind, Come The Rain Single • Nicol & Elliott — 2019 — Wish You'd Stayed Away Single Sweet Downfall Single • Chris Greig & The Merchants — 2019 — Colours Single Lipstick EP • Toni Woods — 2019 — I Don't Wanna Be Your Friend Single
Artists
Artists
• Found • Ziggy Campbell • Mylo • Stafrann Hakon • We Yo Nee • Vin Landers • Beatmooks • ESC • Monkey Tribe • Mellow Sub Machine • Tetsuo • Kev Sim • Fudge Fingas • The Smash • Dullshiny • Reaz • Disciples of Panic Earth • Lyvonne • K Trouble • Cannon • Scientific Support Dept. • Spacewalker • C.D Jefferson • Cruiser • S-Type • Tycho • Provinylistkarim • Nordin Zaoui
Compilations
Compilations
• Lato 001 (2003) • Lato 002 (2004) • Lato 003 • Lato 004 • Lato 005 (2006)
Albums
Albums
• Mellow Sub Machine – Los Machinos Mellos (2005)
Artists
Artists
• Koshka • Mungo's Hi-Fi • Lee Patterson • Red Road Global Music Collective • Zuba • Roddy Hart
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• Welcome (2005)
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- 1.Creepingbent.org. The Creeping Bent Organisation.
- 2.Belle And Sebastian Say Thank You. Uncut.
- 3.The Scotsman Sessions #355: Declan McKay. The Scotsman. 14 March 2023.
- 4.Fulton, Rick. Student label Electric Honey celebrates 20th anniversary after launching some of the biggest bands in UK music. Dailyrecord.co.uk. 24 May 2013.
- 5.Muzieklijstjes.nl. Kerrang! – 100 British albums by the readers.
- 6.Belle and Sebastian. Tigermilk.
- 7.Staff Lists: The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 20-01 | Features. Pitchfork. 3 September 2010.
- 8.Getsnowpatrol.wordpress.com. Final Straw | Get Snow Patrol. 4 August 2003.
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