This particular Ace was one of the labels of Graeme Quinton-Jones's 'Oakwood' studios, of Herne Bay, Kent; the other being the 1980s-only (with regard to 7" records) Oakwood. The studio appears to have usually acted as a custom recording concern, with funding for the records being supplied by the artists. Ace lasted for long enough to be responsible for around forty-three records, which came out over a period of four years, from 1979 to 1982. Numbers were in the ACE-000s, LPs and singles sharing the same series; the '0' was dropped after ACE-015. Several Punk / New Wave bands made records through Oakwood, some of which are now highly collectable, the 'Crash Victim' EP by The Committed (ACE-006; 1979) and 'Future Rights' b/w 'Flowers' by The Rivals (ACE-007; 1979) being cases in point. As can be seen, the 'A'-side labels were white with red logos while the 'B'-sides reversed that colour scheme. Manufacture was fairly often by Lyntone or Linguaphone. The discography below lists Ace's records from 1979 and (for the sake of interest) 1980; the items in square brackets are LPs. Thanks to James Denholm of the 'Worthless Trash' website for filling-in the gaps.
Copyright 2008 Robert Lyons.