Damaged Goods (record label)
Damaged Goods is a British independent record label.
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[edit] History
Damaged Goods records formed in 1988 from a living room in east London. The first release was a re-issue of the 1977 single by Slaughter and the Dogs, "Where Have All the Bootboys Gone?". Following positive reviews in the UK music press it was followed by a reissue of the same band's debut album Do It Dog Style. Releases by Adam and the Ants, The Killjoys, Pork Dukes, and Snivelling Shits followed. Damaged Goods was originally intended to be a punk re-issue label but by 1990 was releasing contemporary bands, including a single by The Sect, and an EP by Manic Street Preachers.
In early 1991, they released their first single by Billy Childish (with Thee Headcoats), followed by many more, including the debut Thee Headcoatees single. They now manage the Billy Childish back catalogue. Between 1992–1994, Damaged Goods released the debut single from Helen Love along with one off singles with Atari Teenage Riot, New Bomb Turks, Wat Tyler and Asian Dub Foundation. By 1995, DG was a full time occupation concentrating on the UK garage scene based around Toe Rag Studios in London and Slim Chance’s Wild Western Rooms in Archway, as well as indie and punk releases.
In 1995, they released the debut Holly Golightly album The Good Things. They have since released thirteen albums by Holly.
Over the next decade Damaged Goods released records by J Church, TV Personalities, The Revillos, Mikabomb, The Priscillas, The Buff Medways, and Buzzcocks[1][2]
2008 saw the release of new albums from Billy Childish and his new band The Musicians of the British Empire and a second album from Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs. Re-issues included Psykik Volts, Thee Headcoatees, Johnny Moped, Thee Milkshakes and Rudi and further releases included Betty and the Werewolves, the debut album from The Wolfmen and new albums from Ludella Black and Graham Day & the Gaolers.
[edit] Artists
- Action Painting
- Adam and the Ants
- Agebaby
- Age of Jets
- Anorak Girl
- Armitage Shanks
- Asian Dub Foundation
- Baby Birkin
- Bambi
- Betty and the Werewolves
- Bette Davis and the Balconettes
- Big Boy Tomato
- Billy Childish
- Blaggers ITA
- Blubber
- The Bolsheviks
- The Bristols
- Buzzcocks
- Cee Bee Beaumont
- Clayson and the Argonauts
- Cuban Boys
- Cute Lepers
- Cyanide Pills
- Deep Wound
- The Dils
- Dirty Burds
- Dustball
- Dutronc
- Dweeb
- Terry Edwards
- Fabienne Delsol
- Fire Dept.
- Formica
- Genius Freak
- Goldblade Featuring Poly Styrene
- Graham Day and the Gaolers
- Guaranteed Ugly
- Guy Hamper Trio
- Hard Skin
- Helen Love
- Holly Golightly
- Honeyrider
- Hopper
- Huegunius
- Identity
- J Church
- Johnny Moped
- The Killjoys
- Kyra Rubella
- Lockjaw
- Lovesick
- Ludicrous Lollipops
- Manic Street Preachers
- Ludella Black
- The Melons
- Mikabomb
- Monkhouse
- Nat Johnson and the Figureheads
- New Bomb Turks
- Oizone
- One Car Pile-Up
- Pansy Division
- Pebbles
- PeeChees
- Penetration
- Period Pains
- Pete Molinari
- Phantom Pregnancies
- Piney Gir
- Pop Rivets
- Pork Dukes
- Pop Am Good
- Psykik Volts
- Reverse
- The Revillos
- Roadholders
- Roxy Epoxy & The Rebound
- Rugrat
- The Sect
- Serious Drinking European Cup Squad
- Sexton Ming
- Shelley's Children
- Shout
- Singing Loins
- Slaughter And The Dogs
- Snap Her
- Some Chicken
- Spizzenergi
- Thee Stash
- Stratford Sparrows
- Stuckists
- Supercute
- Tallulah Gosh
- Television Personalities
- Thee Headcoats
- Thee Headcoatees
- Thrilled Skinny
- Toast
- The Users
- Wat Tyler
- Wild Billy Childish and the Blackhands
- Wild Billy Childish and the Buff Medways
- Wild Billy Childish and the Chatham Singers
- Wild Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire
- Witch
- The Wolfmen
