Regular Records
Regular Records was an Australian record label based in Sydney that operated from 1978 until the mid-1990s. Records released music by acts including Mental As Anything, Icehouse, and The Cockroaches. The Regular Records label was founded in 1978 by Martin Fabinyi and Cameron Allan.
Regular Records
- Name
- Regular Records
- Founded
- 1978
- Founder
- Martin Fabinyi · Cameron Allan
- Headquarters
- Australia
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Regular Records was an Australian record label based in Sydney that operated from 1978 until the mid-1990s. Records released music by acts including Mental As Anything, Icehouse, and The Cockroaches. The Regular Records label was founded in 1978 by Martin Fabinyi and Cameron Allan.
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The label was associated with music recording and publishing company Festival Records. The act first signed to the label was Mental as Anything. The second act signed to label was "Flowers" who later changed their name to Icehouse. Regular signed Brisbane band The Riptides in 1981. In 1986 Regular signed The Cockroaches, who later went on to form the nucleus of The Wiggles. Acts also signed to Regular included I'm Talking, Electric Pandas and The Reels. In the early 1990s, Regular signed Sydney band The Welcome Mat, and distributed the independent label Half a Cow. Cameron Allan died in 2013.
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• Name — Regular Records • Founded — 1978 • Founder — Martin Fabinyi, Cameron Allan • Status — Defunct • Genre — * Rock • pop • Country — Australia • Location — Sydney
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Artists signed to label
• Mental As Anything • Flowers/Icehouse • Austen Tayshus • Stephen Cummings • Electric Pandas • The Reels • The Cockroaches • I'm Talking • Kate Ceberano • The Johnnys • The Riptides • Club Hoy • Third Eye • SPK • Dog Trumpet • Tiny Tim • Deckchairs Overboard • Cattletruck • Regular Rockabilly
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- 1.Martin Fabinyi. Composer was a restless intellect - Cameron Allan, 1955-2013. Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. 19 July 2013.
- 2.Government of New South Wales. Spinning around: 50 years of Festival Records. Powerhouse Museum.
- 3.Stuart Coupe. Variety! That's the spice of Sydney Pub Rock. Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. 11 January 1981.
- 4.Watt, Andrew. The Cockroaches are coming. The Age. Fairfax Media. 2 May 1986.
- 5.Stuart Coupe. Live stars now get it on vinyl. Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. 28 September 1986.
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