Electric Honey (label)

The label was founded by staff at Stow College with the idea of creating a platform for students in the HNC/D Music Business course, to gain the experience of working firsthand with record company operations, while also having a hand in the creation of a thriving music scene within Scotland by releasing local artists. The first release was in 1993 with Baby Chaos, later known as Deckard, and their Buzz EP.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/music/music-news/student-label-electric-honey-celebrates-1908244|title=Student label Electric Honey celebrates 20th anniversary after launching some of the biggest bands in UK music|first=Rick|last=Fulton|date=24 May 2013|website=Dailyrecord.co.uk|accessdate=3 May 2020}} Baby Chaos would then go on to receive considerable recognition from their releases with their 1996 album Love Your Self Abuse, being named one of Kerrang!'s 100 Greatest British Rock Albums Ever.{{cite web|url=http://www.muzieklijstjes.nl/Kerrang100British.htm |title=Kerrang! – 100 British albums by the readers |publisher=Muzieklijstjes.nl |accessdate=2 March 2013}} The 1995 release of The Moondials, featured Stevie Jackson on guitar, who would go on to join Belle & Sebastian alongside Stuart Murdoch later that year.

Electric Honey's first success came with the release of the label's first album release in 1996, Belle & Sebastian's Tigermilk, named after a track originally written for, but left out from, the album. Formed by Stuart Murdoch and Stuart David, later joined with Stevie Jackson, Belle & Sebastian formed in Glasgow in early 1996, recording their first demos in Stow College. Murdoch was involved early on with the University of Glasgow's Subcity Radio. Originally limited to 1000 copies on Electric Honey, the album was picked up by Jeepster Records who re-released it in 1999, and is now often cited as a classic influential album,{{cite web |url=http://www.belleandsebastian.com/recordings/tigermilk |title=Tigermilk |publisher=Belle and Sebastian |accessdate=2 March 2013 |archive-date=27 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427125326/http://www.belleandsebastian.com/recordings/tigermilk |url-status=dead }} with "The State I Am In" being placed at number 17 on Pitchfork Media's top 200 tracks of the 1990s.{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7853-the-top-200-tracks-of-the-1990s-20-01/ |title=Staff Lists: The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 20-01 | Features |work=Pitchfork |date=3 September 2010 |accessdate=2 March 2013 |archive-date=19 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120719223302/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7853-the-top-200-tracks-of-the-1990s-20-01/ |url-status=dead }}

Belle and Sebastian recently played a special gig at Winfield House- the London residence of the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Originally called Polarbear, Snow Patrol are the most successful of Electric Honey's signings having sold ten million albums worldwide. The band formed in Glasgow while front-man Gary Lightbody worked in the Glasgow venue Nice 'n' Sleazys. Starfighter Pilot came five years before their big selling{{cite web|url=http://getsnowpatrol.wordpress.com/final-straw/ |title=Final Straw | Get Snow Patrol |publisher=Getsnowpatrol.wordpress.com |date=4 August 2003 |accessdate=2 March 2013}} album Final Straw, and featured Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch on piano and backing vocals.

Starfighter Pilot was later featured on the band's debut album Songs for Polarbears and re-released as a single through Jeepster Records.

Biffy Clyro were signed to the label while they were students at Stow College. In 2000, they released their debut EP Thekidswhopoptodaywillrocktomorrow through Electric Honey, featuring the tracks "57" and "Justboy".

Both tracks reappeared on the band's debut album release, Blackened Sky, through Beggars Banquet Records.

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