Fire Records (UK)

{{Short description|British record label}}

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{{Infobox record label

| name = Fire Records

| image = Fire Logo.jpg

| founded = 1985

| founder = Johnny Waller, Clive Solomon

| genre = Alternative rock, indie rock

| country = United Kingdom

| location = London, England

| website = {{URL|https://www.firerecords.com/}}

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Fire Records is a British independent record label, run by James Nicholls, with offices in London, England and New York, United States. The label was founded by music journalist Johnny Waller and Clive Solomon in 1985 and released early records from Pulp, Teenage Fanclub (on subsidiary label Paperhouse), Spacemen 3 (formerly on Glass Records), Blue Aeroplanes, Lives of Angels and others. In the early 1990s, the label was home to Neutral Milk Hotel, The Lemonheads, Built to Spill, Urge Overkill and others.

The label was relaunched in the late 1990s by James Nicholls, and has gone on to release albums by Guided By Voices, Giant Sand, Pere Ubu, Black Lips, Jane Weaver, Josephine Foster, The Lemonheads and Islet.{{cite web|url=http://www.dailyrindblog.com/tag/james-nicholls/ |title=The Daily Rind | Tag Archive | James Nicholls |publisher=Dailyrindblog.com |date=2012-04-27 |access-date=2013-03-03}}