Where is it?

17-19 Alma Road
London
SW18 1AA
UK

Website: http://www.beggars.com/

About the Label

Beggars Banquet is an English independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin, and is part of the Beggars Group of labels. In 1977, spurred by the prevailing DIY aesthetics of the British punk rock movement (then at the height of its popularity), they decided to join the fray as an independent label and release records under the Beggars Banquet imprint.[1] The first band on the label was English punk group The Lurkers; the first ever release on the label was The Lurkers' punk classic Shadow/Love Story 7" single.[1] Later in the decade and into the early '80s, hits with Tubeway Army and Gary Numan secured the label's future.[1] Two daughter labels, Situation Two and 4AD Records, were launched to release artists like The Southern Death Cult (later turning into The Cult), The Charlatans, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Play Dead, The Pixies, Lush, Cocteau Twins, M/A/R/R/S and others. Another subsidiary, XL Recordings, boasts dance artists such as The Prodigy, Lemon Jelly, Basement Jaxx. Martin Mills remains Chairman of the Group.

XL Recordings, Rough Trade Records, Mantra Records, Mo'Wax Records, Locked On Records, Matador Records, Too Pure Records and Wiiija are all part of Beggars Group. The group is managed by Martin Mills, UK Managing Director John Holborow, International MD Paul Redding and non exec Andy Heath and is the largest and most influential independent group of labels in the UK. The labels are distributed by Alternative Distribution Alliance in the United States.

References:

• Wikipedia
• 1:Larkin, Colin (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave Music. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-579-4.
  

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