Zoo Records
Label started by Bill Drummond, and Dave Balfe with the able assistance of Pam Young
Singles
CAGE 001 – Big In Japan – From Y to Z And Never Again EP 1978 (Nothing Special/Suicide A Go Go/Taxi/Cindy And The Barbi Dolls)
CAGE 002 – Those Naughty Lumps – Iggy Pop’s Jacket/Pure And Innocent 1979
CAGE 003 – Teardrop Explodes – Sleeping Gas/Camera Camera/Kirby Workers Dream Fades 1979
CAGE 004 – Echo & The Bunnymen – Pictures On My Wall/Read It In Books 1979
CAGE 005 – Teardrop Explodes – Bouncing Babies/All I Am Is Loving You 1979
CAGE 006 – Lori & The Chameleons – Touch/Love By The Ganges 1979
(later Re-released on Sire Records)
CAGE 007 – Expelaires – To See You/Frequency 1979
CAGE 008 – Teardrop Explodes – Treason(Its Just A Story)/Read It In Books) 1980
The labels biggest seller – shifting 25,000 copies
CAGE 009 – Wild Swans – Revolutionary Spirit/God Forbid 1982
(Also on 12″)
Albums
Zoo Two – Scott Walker – Fire Escape In The Sky – The Godlike Genius of Scott Walker 1981
(reached #14 in the Indie Charts)
Zoo Four – Various – To The Shores Of Lake Placid 1982
(Came in G/Fold sleeve & 4 page booklet)
Zoo One was scheduled to be the Teardrop Explodes album Kilimanjaro (later released on Mercury Records) while Zoo Three was to be the same band’s album Wilder (or perhaps their ‘never released’ album Everyone Wants to Shag the Teardrop Explodes).
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