Strange Fruit Records

Strange Fruit Records
Strange Fruit Records
Founded	1986
Founder	Clive Selwood; John Peel
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Official website	www.strange-fruit-music.co.uk

Strange Fruit Records was an independent record label in the United Kingdom.

The label, established by

Peel Sessions.^[1]

The name came from

roots artists from his radio show.^[1]

Strange Fruit closed in 2004. It was part of the Zomba Group of companies and was shut down when the label merged with BMG. The last release the label put together was an album of New Order's complete Peel Sessions, fitting as the first release that came out was an EP of New Order's first Peel session. Six months later John Peel died.

Clive Selwood died in June 2020.[2]

Strange Fruit Records catalogue (Peel Sessions, BBC)

Individual artists

SFPS001 New Order
SFPS002 The Damned
SFPS003 The Screaming Blue Messiahs
SFPS004 Stiff Little Fingers
SFPS005 Sudden Sway
SFPS006 The Wild Swans
SFPS007 Madness
SFPS008 Gang of Four
SFPS009 The Wedding Present
SFPS010 Twa Toots
SFPS011 The Ruts
SFPS012 Siouxsie and the Banshees
SFPS013 Joy Division
SFPS014 The Primevals
SFPS015 June Tabor
SFPS016 The Undertones
SFPS017 Xmal Deutschland
SFPS018 The Specials
SFPS019 Stump
SFPS020 The Birthday Party
SFPS021 The Slits
SFPS022 Spizz Oil
SFPS023 The June Brides
SFPS024 Culture
SFPS025 The Prefects
SFPS026 Yeah Yeah Noh
SFPS027 Billy Bragg
SFPS028 The Fall
SFPS029 Girls at Our Best!
SFPS030 The Redskins
SFPS031
T.Rex
SFPS032 Tubeway Army
SFPS033 Joy Division
SFPS034 The Adverts
SFPS035
The Mighty Wah
SFPS036 The Triffids
SFPS037 Robert Wyatt
SFPS038 That Petrol Emotion
SFPS039 New Order
SFPS040 The Damned
SFPS041 Wire
SFPS042 Electro Hippies
SFPS043 Syd Barrett
SFPS044 Buzzcocks
SFPS045 Cud
SFPS046 The Very Things
SFPS047 Ultravox
SFPS048 Extreme Noise Terror
SFPS049 Napalm Death
SFPS050 The Cure
SFPS051
The Bonzo Dog Band
SFPS052 The Nightingales
SFPS053 Intense Degree
SFPS054 Stupids
SFPS055 The Smiths
SFPS056 Bolt Thrower
SFPS057 Half Man Half Biscuit
SFPS058 The Birthday Party
SFPS059 Lindisfarne
SFPS060 Echo & the Bunnymen
SFPS061 Family
SFPS062 The Room
SFPS063 Eton Crop
SFPS064 Nico
SFPS065
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
SFPS066 Siouxsie and the Banshees
SFPS067 Amayenge
SFPS068 Ivor Cutler
SFPS069 Unseen Terror
SFPS070 The Four Brothers
SFPS071 A Guy Called Gerald
SFPS072 Inspiral Carpets
SFPS073 Carcass
SFPS074 The Go-Betweens
SFPS075
The Associates
SFPS076 Colorblind James Experience
SFPS080 The Jam
SFPS081 Teenage Fanclub

Compilations

SFRLP100 The Sampler
SFRLP101 Hardcore Holocaust
SFRCD119 Too Pure (Th' Faith Healers, Stereolab, PJ Harvey)
SFRLP200 21 Years Of Alternative Radio 1
SFRLP111
Joy Division

Other albums

SFRSCD016 or SFRSCD079 - Tom Paxton, Live In Concert (recorded in London, England in 1971 and 1972, released 1998)
SFRSCD035 -
Melanie
, On Air [taken from November 75 concert, with added sessions from 1969 & 1989)
SFRSCD036 - Joe Cocker and The Grease Band, On Air [taken from Top Gear 13 October 68; Symonds 14 October 68; DLT 21 September 69; and Top Gear 11 October 69) Released 1997
SFRSCD037 - The Delgados, BBC Sessions (1997)
SFRSCD077 - A House, Live In Concert
SFRSCD082 -
Radio 1 Sessions
(1999)
SFPSCD090 - Uzeda Recorded 8 May 1994 Maida Vale Studios BBC
SFRSCD094 -
The Complete BBC Recordings
(2000)
SFNT015 -
Icicle Works
"Radio 1 Sessions - The Evening Show" - Four track 12" EP, recorded 1982, released 1988.
SFRCD114 - The Chameleons "John Peel Sessions" (1990)
SFRCD201 - Soft Machine "The Peel Sessions" - All tracks recorded for BBC Top Gear.

A bootleg of the White Power rock band Skrewdriver's Peel Session exists, in very bad quality and with a cover in the style of the Strange Fruit Peel Session releases. It however is not a Strange Fruit release.