Scottish, based in Glasgow. Lismor was started by Peter Hamilton, in 1972, as an offshoot of his chain of four record shops ('Music Week', 19th May 1975). It concentrated on Gaelic material, and the vast majority of its products were LPs or, later, CDs. The few singles which it put out appeared sporadically, and were numbered in a LISP-2000 series. The first of them, 'Mo Dhachaidh' b/w 'Eilidh' by Alastair Clark Gillies (LISP-2001), was issued in 1973, and three more appeared in the period 1975-76, but those four were the only ones released in the '70s; the next in the series wasn't released until 1981. In 1980 Hamilton sold the company, and the one remaining shop, to former agent and promoter Ronnie Simpson. Under Simpson's guidance Lismor expanded, and it is still going today, with a catalogue which varies from bagpipe tutorials to folk-rock. Distribution of Lismor records seems to have been primarily by the company itself in the '70s, though according to 'MW' of the 14th of May 1977 the label was going to be available south of the border through H.R. Taylor from that point. The discography below only covers the 1970s.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.