Some Bizzare Records is the label/management company of Stevo Pearce, the manager of Marc Almond.

Stevo had worked as a DJ in London playing records by electronic and industrial groups.

Some Bizzare was launched with a compilation LP entitled "Some Bizzare Album" in 1981. The album featured Soft Cell, Blancmange, Depeche Mode, The The and other more obscure acts in the same vein.

Soft Cell, The The, Cabaret Voltaire, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Psychic TV were some of the early groups on the label.

By the mid 80s, the roster included Test Dept, Coil, Swans, Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel, and various Soft Cell solo and off-shoot projects.

Stevo is well known for managing to get extreme groups signed to major labels (such as CBS and WEA in the case of Psychic TV). However a number of the label's acts have subsequently alleged financial irregularities. For example Coil re-released their Some Bizzare albums in special "Stevo - Pay Us What You Owe Us" editions. Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV has made similar claims, as has Blixa Bargeld of Einstürzende Neubauten, particularly as regards subsidiary publication rights (i.e. overseas reprints).

See also

• List of record labels

External link

• Official site

Record labels | 1981 establishments