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Heavenly Records
Music Production CompanyHeavenly Records, aka Heavenly Recordings, is a London-based record label, distributed by EMI. Founded by Jeff Barrett, a former press officer for Creation Records and many successful indie bands of the time including Happy Mondays, Heavenly Recordings' first releases were 7" and 12" singles for bands Barrett had discovered. The label's early releases included singles and albums by acts such as Flowered Up, Saint Etienne, East Village and Manic Street Preachers. Their most significant early release was Saint Etienne's Foxbase Alpha album, released in 1991 to widespread critical acclaim and a Mercury Music Prize nomination.
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Caught by the River, ed Jeff Barrett, Robin Turner and Andrew Walsh
But its particular contributors also unify it into an immediate classic. For the editors have a history in music, and especially at Heavenly Records - the perceptive hipster's label of choice. Their introduction describes the editing process...
Caught By The River is worth a dip
Here's a lovely thing: an alluringly illustrated collection of essays on the joys of messing about by rivers. The editors are founders of Heavenly Recordings and there's a thematic undercurrent linking the escapist nature of water with that...
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Heavenly Records - Interviews w/ various bands on the label
Heavenly Records promo. Interview with founder of the label, as well as various bands on the label. Included is a studio shot of Manic Street Preachers singing "Motown Junk", and a small interview with all 4 members (Richey and James talk) around 1:07. And another small clip of all of them bouncing around, at about 4:40. I wish the interview with the Manics was longer, but still thought I'd upload it here. Some Manics, is better than no Manics ;)
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Manic Street Preachers - From Despair to Where (The Beat)
Street Preachers in 1993, and was the first single to be released from the album Gold Against the Soul June 20, 1993. The CD included "Hibernation", "Spectators Of Suicide" (Heavenly Records version) and "Starlover" (Heavenly Records version). The 12" included "Hibernation" and "Spectators Of Suicide" (Heavenly Records version). The cassette featured "Hibernation". The single reached number twenty-five in the UK charts on June 12 1993. It also made an appearance as track number 12 on ...