Captain Black ‘Sister’

I found my new favourite record label and it all started with the Hawley Arms burning down in the great fire of Camden at the weekend.

The Hawley Arms, you see, was made famous by Mr Graham Coxon off of Blur, he used to pretty much live there. The Maker used to play pool against Food Records there too. Can’t remember if I was involved, must have been, I do remember playing pool with Coxon at some do with Tony Judge. Tony was involved in an inordinate amount of chaos for a designer – always a pleasure, never chore.

Anyway, more recently The Hawley has been home to the not very tall Johnny Borrell off of Razorlight, the not very well Amy Winehouse, and The Mighty Boosch’s Noel Fielding, who has been called Neil a lot in various places over the last couple of days.

And this is how long I’ve not lived in London – the people who own The Hawley have another pub called The Wilmington Arms, near Exmouth Market, Farringdon way. Sounds great. Must go there, apparently they do a mean pie.

So, they are home to the Bumpman45 label. And guess what? Their releases are aces. Their debut release was The Brute Chorus’ ‘Chateau’ (more about them soon I think).

In the meantime, their next offering (out in April) is from the fantastic Captain Black. And seeing how well the Port O’Brien offering went down last week, you will be hoovering this up.

More hear…
Three more tracks on their MySpace, and erm, that’s it so far. Debut single due in April