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ATTRIX RECORDS
Attrix Records, the label, began with a single entitled Hard Times b/w Lost Lenore by the band Attrix. This was prefixed RB01. The letters being an abbreviation of the man's name who formed the label, Rick Blair.
Only 500 copies were pressed at a cost of £250, which was made up of savings and a loan from a friend. Rick had a band called Attrix, a threepiece, in which he was guitarist and vocalist. He also wrote the two songs on the record.
Next step was a compilation LP called Vaultage 78, made up of local bands, an innovative move at the time. A further three singles by local bands followed and in December 1979 a second Brighton music compilation, Vaultage 79, was released using more new local bands.
Then came a 12 inch single by Rick's next band, the Parrots, and an EP by the Chefs.
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By the end of the year Vaultage 80, the third and final volume of local music was released.
ATTRIX SHOP
Attrix Records, the shop, was situated in Sydney Street in the North Laine, the throbbing heart of creative Brighton then as it is now, only it was less upmarket, though always ahead of its time.
You could buy all the cool albums: New York Dolls, Velvet Underground, the B52's, Dead Kennedys, Talking Heads, Richard Hell & the Voidoids. This was the new music from the USA. aThe cool stuff from the UK at the time included Sex Pistols, Stranglers, The Clash, The Jam, The Damned, Sham 69, UK Subs and Ian Dury, as well as a lot of more obscure stuff that would also later go mainstream.
Attrix Records Shop sold cheaper than any other outlets, a measure of Rick and his philosophy, 'music for the people, by the people'.
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