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About Me

fakeindielabel is a record company and promotions racket set up in 2004 by indie-pop buccaneers Jennie and the Bets as an imprint for our self-released records, and as a way to bring our favourite bands to Newcastle.
Since then we've hosted shows by the likes of Deerhoof, Fonda 500, Sodastream, Stafraenn Hakon, Great Lake Swimmers, Shady Bard, Stinking Lizaveta, The Pony Collaboration, These United States, Capulet, Buen Chico, Chris T-T and The Butterflies of Love, as well as local luminaries Kubichek!, Spraydog, The Bubble Project and Beth Jeans Houghton.
As well as an EP, a CD single and a 7" by The Bets, fakeindielabel has expanded into a home for our friends' bands records too – releases have included the new Dressed in Wires album, 'Prettier Horse to Ride', the Minotaurs' Christmas single, Nev Clay's new album, and a 16-track compilation album 'Local Band Scene', featuring bands and artists the label have championed, such as Ever Since The Lake Caught Fire, Pale Man Made and Peace Burial at Sea.
Cabin Boy Cooperative , our boutique vinyl imprint, has released two split 7" singles, the first by the now defunct A Woman of No Importance and Shin Jin Rui, the most recent pairing Blackflower with Moira Stewart.
Early 2008 sees the release of the long awaited Minotaurs 12" EP Anyone Who Had A Heart, the debut album from Moira Stewart , Sweetness, Yes!, both through Cabin Boy, as well as a double album from Nev Clay , amongst other treats on fakeindielabel.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/12/2007
Band Website: fakeindielabel.co.uk
Influences: Slampt, Fortuna Pop!, Distraction, Factory, Bearos, Chemikal Underground.
Upcoming Releases:CBC003

Sweetnes, Yes!
- Moira Stewart

Monday 14 April 2008

10 Track CD Album - £6.99 + p&p

Newcastle labels Cabin Boy Cooperative and Distraction Records release Moira Stewart's debut album on Monday 14th April 2008. Moira Stewart formed late last year after inventing hair, the black colour used on bin bags, the feeling of resentment and the opposite of stamps. In a short space of time, their interactive live shows have became the stuff of legend, packing in audiences to witness live Twister, silly string, custard pies, glitter by the skipload, Batman costumes, more balloons than a Thanksgiving parade and the most innovative crowdsurfing that you'll ever witness. Its like if David Bowie starred in Bugsy Malone, re-written by Roger Hargraves.

But let's not forget the music: upbeat, fun, shambolic electro/guitar pop is the order of the day; think Hot Chip if they listened to The Orchids and The Field Mice instead of New Order, warm synths awash with indie guitar riffs and samples that Cassetteboy would be proud of. If 'Rave Binchy' was a musical genre, Moira Stewart would be pioneers. The songs have had NME staff writers wanting to join the band, A&R reps declaring their live shows as "the most fun I've had in years", Radio 1's Huw Stephens enthusiastically giving them repeated plays, and aspirational E4 yoof drama Skins will feature the band heavily in the new series airing in the Spring. Quirky, jerky, bonkers and brilliant, Moira Stewart's star is ascending, and it's shiny.

Now taking advance orders!

£6.99 + p&p

SPECIAL OFFER!

Buy the album along with one black and one white 7" vinyl of the lead single, Stars are Shiny, for just £1 extra!

£7.99 + p&p

CBC004

Anyone who had a heart
- Minotaurs

Monday 12 May 2008

12" Vinyl EP - £4.99 + p&p

Minotaurs were never likely to be pigeonholed as just another guitar band. Bursting out of South Shields, the seaside town more famed for Saturday night scuffles than finely crafted mini-epics, they bring a mix of immaculate vocals, beautifully arranged songs and heartbreaking narratives that give an entirely new twist to the art form making them one of the most exciting bands around today. Fragile and delicate, yet completely compelling, they hail not only the return of the anthem but the return of hope. While their joyous live shows have been rightly acclaimed as a breath of fresh air for melodic folk-pop this EP lifts them head and shoulders above their peers, showing them at their self-consciously stunning best. Lead track 'Anyone Who Had A Heart' is bursting with understated emotion and is a stunning representation of the warmth and charm that makes Minotaurs so enchanting to both the listener and the audience. Forster's voice swings between arrogance and insecurity, innocence and insouciance while the music spirals unfathomably and the effect is truly breathtaking. Minotaurs have already overtaken their contemporaries in both creativity and song writing. Wowing packed 'sing along' audiences they have been loved and admired solely in the North East for too long, it's time to let the rest of the country in on the secret.

Now taking advance orders!

£4.99 + p&p
Artists:A Woman of No Importance
Blackflower
Dressed in Wires
Jennie and the Bets
Jennie Redmond
John Egdell
Lachrymose One
Minotaurs
Moira Stewart
Shin Jin Rui
The Bitesize Cowboys
The Bubble Project

Previous Gigs:FIL091 - 28 April 2008

Crevecoeur
Chippewa Falls
Preslav Literary School

@ The Head of Steam
FIL090 - 8 April 2008

4 or 5 Magicians
New Statesmen
My Tulip

@ The Head of Steam
FIL088 - 5 April 2008

Die! Die! Die!
Spraydog
Lake Me

@ Cumberland Arms
FIL089 - 25 March 2008

Stray Dog Cafe
Shin Jin Rui
The Big Oaks

@ The Head of Steam
FIL087 - 27 February 2008

Mr Protector (FRANCE)
MeandthetwinS
Corleone

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]
[flyer]
FIL086 - 17 February 2008

Buen Chico
Pale Man Made
The Small Screen Light Show

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]
Playlist:
[ view | download ]FIL084 - 3 February 2008

Blackflower
Paul Smith (Maximo Park)
Rachel Lancaster (Chippewa Falls)
Marc Oliver (Dot to Dots
John Egdell

@ The Head of Steam 2007 FIL081 - 19 December 2007

Chippewa Falls
John Egdell
Nev Clay
Caroline Mary

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]FIL080 - 5 December 2007

Fighting With Wire
Fall Short! Conform!
July Rising
The Plan For Tonight

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]FIL079 - 2 December 2007

Dot to Dots
Lanterns on the Lake
Simon Doherty
John Egdell

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]FIL078 - 27 November 2007

Sunday School Adventure Club
Ramshackle

@ The Head of SteamFIL077 - 26 November 2007

Chris T-T
Short Term Effect
Once Night Stand in North Dakota

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]
[flyer]FIL075 - 24 November 2007

Great Lake Swimmers
Will Johnson
Cath & Phil Tyler

@ The Cluny
[photo gallery]
[flyer]FIL074 - 21 November 2007

Chronicity
St James' Infirmary
Mansions of Glory
Spungo Band

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]
[flyer]FIL073 - 17 November 2007

The Bitesize Cowboys
The Cornshed Sisters
Staggerin' Jon Lee

@ The Cumberland Arms
[flyer]FIL071 - 4 November 2007

Blackflower
Spanish Summer System
Young Criminals

@ The Head of SteamFIL070 - 31 October 2007

O' Death
Chippewa Falls
Free Diamonds

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]FIL069 - 26 October 2007

Les Cox (Sportifs)
Chippewa Falls
Daz Distraction

@ The Off QuayFIL066 - 17 October 2007

These United States
Vandaveer
Dogtanion

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]FIL065 - 14 October 2007

Shady Bard
Dot to Dots
John Egdell

@ The Cluny
[photo gallery]FIL064 - 11 October 2007

Stafraenn Hakon
d_rradio
Dressed in Wires
Mariposa

@ The Star & Shadow
[photo gallery]
[flyer]FIL062 - 26 September 2007

GB Steamtrains
The People's Friend
The Twentymen

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]FIL061 - 5 September 2007

Little Pebble
Preslav Literary School
Beth Heans Houghton
Ramshackle

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]FIL059 - 29 August 2007

The Cornshed Sisters
Rachel & Laura Lancaster
Caroline Mary

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]FIL057 - 15 August 2007

Chippewa Falls
Corleone
Gas Giant

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]
[flyer]FIL056 - 8 August 2007

Dressed in Wires
Sam JD
MWVM

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]
[flyer] FIL055 - 5 August 2007

Nev Clay
The Horse Loom
Richard Dawson
John Egdell

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]
[flyer]FIL054 - 1 August 2007

The Second Prize
Chopper Harris
Styles Make Fights

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]FIL053 - 21 July 2007

d_rradio
Chippewa Falls
Les Cox (Sportifs)
Nev Clay
John Egdell

@ Mushroom Works Gallery
[photo gallery]
[flyer]FIL052 - 16 July 2007

Jane Taylor
Dot to Dots
John Egdell

@ The Star & ShadowFIL051 - 1 July 2007

People's Friend
Sheerdrop
DJ Daz Distraction

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]FIL050 - 27 June 2007

Chippewa Falls
Daz Distraction
Facemeltaz
Country Jim

@ The Head of SteamFIL049 - 26 June 2007

Deerhoof
Chippewa Falls
Kit

@ Independent
[photo gallery]
[flyer]FIL048 - 24 June 2007

John Egdell
DJ Chippewa Falls

@ The TannersFIL046 - 30 June 2007

Dressed in Wires
Mood 4
Russ Abbatoir

@ The Head of SteamFIL047 - 30 May 2007

The Changes
Spraydog
The Light Brigade

@ The Head of SteamFIL045 - 23 May 2007

Signuls
Roy's Iron DNA
Nathalie Stern
Wreaths

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]
[flyer]FIL044 - 16 May 2007

Stinking Lizaveta
Chippewa Falls
Mansions of Glory
Lake Me Soundsystem

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]
[flyer]FIL043 - 9 May 2007

Moira Stewart
The British Empire
Yes Pop

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]FIL041 - 2 May 2007

Sefelt
Uncle Monty
Hummingbirds

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]FIL040 - 1 May 2007

Shady Bard
George Washington Brown
Pea Sea

@ The Star & Shadow
[photo gallery]
[flyer]FIL039 - 22 April 2007

Jennie and the Bets
Les Cox (Sportifs)
DJ Stephen Bubbles

@ The Tanners
[flyer]FIL037 - 11 April 2007

The Pony Collaboration
Once We Were
Minotaurs

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]
[flyer]FIL036 - 5 April 2007

The Butterflies of Love
Airport Girl
Blackflower

@ The Cluny
[photo gallery]
[flyer]FIL038 - 1 April 2007

The Alphabets
Jennie and the Bets
DJ Daztraction

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]FIL035 - 28 March 2007

Dressed in Wires
The Walk Off
Razmataz Lorry Excitement

@ The Head of SteamFIL034 - 25 March 2007

Chippewa Falls
Mood 4
DJ Paul Heathcote (Moira Stewart)

@ The TannersFIL033 - 21 March 2007

Action Force
Me and Maja
Jennie and the Bets
Sophies Pigeons

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]FIL032 - 7 March 2007

The Bystanders
The Chapman Family
Alsatian

@ The Head of SteamFIL030 - 28 February 2007

The Ruby Suns
A Woman of No Importance
Woog Riots
Johnny Phonic

@ The Head of SteamFIL029 - 25 February 2007

Pale Man Made
Nev Clay
DJ Daz Distraction

@ The Tanners
[flyer]FIL027 - 4 February 2007

The British Empire
Nachmi
Beardlife

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]FIL026 - 8 January 2007

Sodastream
Pete Dale and the Beta Males
St James' Infirmary

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]
[flyer] 2006 FIL022 - 22 December 2006

Nev Clay
Jennie Redmond
Richard Dawson
Rachel Lancaster
Marc Oliver
John Egdell

@ Morden TowerFIL019 - 17 December 2006

Mushi Mushi
Beth Jeans Houghton
Dressed in Wires
Pale Man Made

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]FIL021 - 3 December 2006

Minotaurs
Blackflower
Mood4

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]
[flyer]FIL018 - 22 October 2006

Spraydog
Chippewa Falls
Les Cox (Sportifs)
Wreaths

@ The Head of Steam
[flyer]FIL016 - 5 July 2006

Capulet
Pillow

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]FIL015 - 14 June 2006

Hooker's Green 1
The bulBS
Lachrymose One
Minotaurs

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]FIL014 - 11 June 2006

Fonda 500
Moira Stewart
Chippewa Falls
Les Cox (Sportifs)

@ The Head of Steam
[photo gallery]FIL012 - 5 February 2006

Peace Burial at Sea
Dressed in Wires
Shubunkin
Moira Stewart

@ The Cumberland Arms 2005 FIL011 - 29 December 2005

The Amateur Dramatics
Lachrymose One

@ The Cumberland ArmsFIL008 - 27 August 2005

Blackflower
Jennie and the Bets
Nev Clay

@ The Cumberland ArmsFIL006 - 12 July 2005

Kubichek!
Dressed in Wires
The Hype Foundation
Ever Since The Lake Caught Fire

@ The Cumberland ArmsFIL005 - 19 June 2005

John Egdell
Nev Clay
Jennie Redmond

@ The Head of SteamFIL004 - 22 April 2005

Tears of Abraham
Lachrymose One

@ BookvilleFIL003 - 31 March 2005

Pillow
Chippewa Falls
Pale Man Made
Jennie and the Bets

@ The Cumberland Arms
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART

Anyone who had a heart- Minotaurs12" Vinyl EP Minotaurs were never likely to be pigeonholed as just another guitar band. Bursting out of South Shields, the seaside town more famed for Saturday night ...
Posted by fakeindielabel on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:46:00 PST

SWEETNESS, YES!

Sweetnes, Yes!- Moira Stewart Newcastle labels Cabin Boy Cooperative and Distraction Records release Moira Stewart's debut album on Monday 14th April 2008. Moira Stewart formed late last year after i...
Posted by fakeindielabel on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:42:00 PST

FAKEINDIELABEL/CABIN BOY DECEMBER SALE!

We've some great releases coming up in 2008, so to clear out some room from beneath our beds we've decided to hold something of a sale here at FIL/CBC. Four 7" singles, including the white and black v...
Posted by fakeindielabel on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:48:00 PST

w/e 2 December 2007 (Chronicity, Great Lake Swimmers, Chris T-T, Caribou)

Hey folks, just to let you know about a couple of FIL shows over the next fortnight or so... On WEDNESDAY (21/11) at the HEAD OF STEAM we've got Pete Dale's politico-punks CHRONICITY, debuting a new l...
Posted by fakeindielabel on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:49:00 PST

w/e 4 November 2007 (O Death, Blackflower)

Hey folks - just to let you know about the a couple of FIL shows this week... First up is our Hallowe'en party on WEDNESDAY, in association with the good people at Portions For Foxes. New Yorkers O' D...
Posted by fakeindielabel on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:21:00 PST

w/e 14 October 2007 (Stafraenn Hakon, Shady Bard, Pop Klubb)

Hey there folks, just a quick update about our goings on this week... STAFRAENN HAKON: Thursday sees the return to the North East of the mighty Stafraenn Hakon, one of the leading lights of Iceland's ...
Posted by fakeindielabel on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:00:00 PST

w/e 30 September 2007

How do folks - just some news of this week's FIL show, which is a bit of a theatrical one, a bit Mark e e cummings Smith... GB STEAMTRAINSA Tesco carrier cut 'n' paste concoction of ranting and ideas ...
Posted by fakeindielabel on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:40:00 PST

w/e 9 September 2007

This week in the indie ghetto... It should be a lovely one this Wednesday at The Head of Steam - pluck and strum/toe keyboard pop gems from Fence Collective member Little Pebble, with wonder-ditty/pi...
Posted by fakeindielabel on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:27:00 PST

w/e 2 September 2007

Hey there folks - just a quicky about Wednesday's show at the Head of Steam... It's a lovely folksy country acoustic pop bill, with The Cornshed Sisters, featuring Jennie from Jennie and the Bets and ...
Posted by fakeindielabel on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:24:00 PST

w/e 26 August 2007

Hey there folks, just a super quick update for this week - Prancey Dog are taking over our Wednesday residency at the Head of Steam this week to bring you the marvellous Bearsuit, but as luck would ha...
Posted by fakeindielabel on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:20:00 PST