Welcome to Debt Records

DEBT Records is a label born out of troubled times, a label nurse-fed on the understanding that current music industry practices are failing both artists and listeners. DEBT IS A LABEL THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO THAT INDUSTRY

This Is Debt Records...

We are an independent record label based in Manchester, UK.

Our artists include Honeyfeet, Becca & The Broken Biscuits, John Fairhurst, Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six, Red Tides, Monkey Poet and Richard Barry.

This is a company that never chases money over content: we trust that our signings know better than the marketplace about the secrets of musical alchemy – we merely do our best to provide the environment, resources and support necessary to make this happen. We firmly believe that live performance is the only truly lasting musical format, with memory being our sharpest stylus. That said, we are dedicated to releasing unique and spectacular records (in whatever presentation science recommends at the time).

Debt Records was set up by a sound engineer, a session player and a songwriter with a shared enmity towards the legion of labels, promoters and managers that are draining the music world of its jouissance – cultural barbarians who exploit their contributors, underestimate their congregation and manipulate Music’s acolytes into deifying the sentimental slush of relentlessly reconstituted pop travesties.

We don’t care about what sells, we care about what survives... And, at this rate, it sure as hell won’t be the music industry as we currently recognise it.

Idealistic? Yes.

Naïve? Absolutely not.

Debt At The Chapel

24 January 2012

Debt’s first outing at the wonderful Platt Chapel, and have we got a party for you! An unholy double bill comprising FIGMO and Physical Jerks.

Here’s what people say about F.I.G.M.O…

Imagine a thousand, no, a million golden eagles! Swooping to earth, talons extended, they are met by a whoosh of glory as the Virgin Mary fires out the Son Of God. From the flank, as yet unseen, a stampede of tyrannosaurs bring in the low-end. In the distance, but getting louder, volcanoes erupt in perfect precision…… Enough said.
www.wefuckingrock.co.uk/

The Physical Jerks

Physical Jerks are a ska/reggae/dub band who met somewhere in salford in about 2004. Brought together by a love of Phatt bass, offbeats, theremins and sax cadenzas they went on to carve an unwanted swathe across the manchester ska scene, engaging in sonic terrorism of the masses.

“…he mechanically shot his arms back and forth, wearing on his face the look of grim enjoyment which was considered proper during the Physical Jerks…” - George Orwell, 1984

www.physicaljerks.org/

WR Audio are providing the live sound rig and Roxby’s Wonky Disco will be providing the gap filling foot tappers. After F.I.G.M.O. finish off the live element of the evening RWD will bust out the serious boogie music for those still left standing.

Tickets £4