Electric Honey (label)
Electric Honey, founded in 1992, is Stow College's (Glasgow, Scotland) in-house record label run by Ken McCluskey (The Bluebells), Douglas MacIntyre (Creeping Bent) and formerly Alan Rankine (The Associates) along with students from the HNC/D Music Business course.
The label was described by Uncut magazine as being "The most successful student-run label in the world" thanks to the illustrious history of artists having releases with the imprint, including Belle & Sebastian, Snow Patrol and Biffy Clyro.
Affiliate labels were also run under Electric Honey for a period of time. Gdansk, which released electronic based artists and Root 8 which specialized in world music.
Read more about Electric Honey (label): Early Years
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