Spiderleg Records

Spiderleg Records was an independent record label founded by UK anarcho-punk band Flux Of Pink Indians in 1981. The band set up the label after releasing their first EP on the Crass Records label, which both taught them the skills necessary to run such a project and provided them with the seed cash. In turn, the band not only used the label to release their own material, but gave opportunities to like-minded punk bands to put out records, includi... more

Spiderleg Records was an independent record label founded by UK anarcho-punk band Flux Of Pink Indians in 1981. The band set up the label after releasing their first EP on the Crass Records label, which both taught them the skills necessary to run such a project and provided them with the seed cash. In turn, the band not only used the label to release their own material, but gave opportunities to like-minded punk bands to put out records, including The Subhumans, who in a similar fashion set up the Bluurg label. Others that released records on Spiderleg included The System, Amebix and Antisect. The first record to be put out was a re-recording of older material made when the band were known as The Epileptics (they changed the name to EPI-X following complaints from the British Epilepsy Association and eventually emerged as Flux Of Pink Indians having reverted to The Epileptics and then The Licks). This was an EP entitled "1970s Have Been Made In Hong Kong" which had originally been... less