Reckless Yes co-founder, journalist, author and broadcaster Sarah Lay has joined the Women Amplified panel event taking place in Derby on 25 September 2018. Talking about working in the music industry, with a focus on radio, and challenges to women in this sector. Other panellists include radio-makers Sophie Sparham, Stephanie Hernandez and Vanessa Book; musicians Sue Warren and … [Read more…]
Big thanks to Clash today for premiering the first single from the forthcoming debut album from Fightmilk. The track – Four Star Hotel – is described by them as ‘awkward scuzz-pop tragi-comedy’ and you can hear it on their site now. It’s taken from the album Not With That Attitude which we’ll be releasing on … [Read more…]
LIINES are among the shortlist of band’s in the Loud Women HERcury Prize 2018 for their debut album Stop-Start, which was released on Reckless Yes in May this year. The HERcury was set up in 2017 by Loud Women in contrast to the Mercury Music Prize, and to highlight the creative work of British-based female … [Read more…]
Back in 2016 when we were doing our weekly radio show The Rumble we played the debut track from an indiepop band that we were both excited about. That band were Fightmilk and we’re extra excited that we now get to work with them to release their debut album – an album which has exceeded … [Read more…]
The latest addition to the Reckless Yes roster is electro-indiepop three-piece Mighty Kids – and we’re really pleased to welcome them and introduce you to them here. The band are set to play the Church Stage at Reckless Yes’ favourite festival Indietracks on 28 July 2018 and we’ll be releasing their debut EP Won’t You … [Read more…]
Here at Reckless Yes we’ve been a record label for coming up to two years but it’s not so often we reflect on how that came to be, or all the things we had to know and have experienced to get off the ground so fast. This afternoon we spent a couple of hours giving a … [Read more…]
We’re getting excited for the Vinyl Adventures record fair at Northwich Plaza next week, part of the mega CwNine Charlatans take over of the town which is starting from today. Sarah went digging about in her writing archives and pulled out this interview with Charlatans’ frontman Tim Burgess about his book Vinyl Adventures (which is … [Read more…]
LIINES debut album Stop-Start is released today digitally and on limited edition pure white vinyl. It’s been a long wait but so worth it a record which contains raw emotion, frenetic energy, and beautiful space around a post-punk sound. Produced, mixed and mastered by Paul Tipler (Elastica, Placebo, Stereolab) copies of the white vinyl, with … [Read more…]
We promised you we’d got another new signing and we’re not going to let you down: Chorusgirl have signed with us and we’ll be releasing their second album on vinyl, CD and digitally later in the year. The band released their self-titled debut album in 2015 on the sadly departed Fortuna POP! label and You might … [Read more…]
As part of the Write:Record:Release series of events organised by Dubrek Studios and Real Creative Futures we’ll be sharing our experience and giving some advice on all things record label and PR on 2 June 2018. The events, which are on Dubrek (which is on Beckett Street in Derby and home to many Reckless Yes … [Read more…]