Rondelet Records was a British
independent record label
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started by Alan Campion, who owned a record shop in
Mansfield
Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market t ...
,
Nottinghamshire
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in the early 1980s. The label published many
punk groups including Special Duties,
The Threats,
Deadman's Shadow,
Riot Squad and
Anti-Pasti.
The label also featured some bands from the
new wave of British heavy metal
The new wave of British heavy metal (commonly abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a nationwide musical movement that started in England in the mid-1970s and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. Journalist Geoff Barton coined the term i ...
, including
Witchfynde
Witchfynde are an English heavy metal band, forerunners of the new wave of British heavy metal in the late 1970s.
History
Early days
Witchfynde were formed in Derbyshire, England, in 1974, by bass guitarist Richard Blower and vocalist N ...
, who toured with
Def Leppard
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in their early days.
The label had some success with Special Duties, Anti-Pasti and Witchfynde, whose songs and albums reached the national charts. However, by the mid 1980s the label folded, though some of the bands are still touring today.
British independent record labels
Mansfield
Defunct record labels of the United Kingdom
Punk record labels
1980 establishments in England
1980s disestablishments in England
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