A Punk / New Wave label, run by Pete Stennet. Small Wonder started life as a record shop in Walthamstow, and progressed to issuing its own records in 1977. Its main claim to fame is that among its twenty-odd releases were the first records by The Cure and Bauhaus. Idiosyncratically, singles appeared in a 'small-zero' numerical series, with the numbers written out in lettering. The label design was also unusual, in that it had all the credits on one side and a picture on the other; a trait shared by Vertigo, Neon, Dandelion, Charly, Ork and Tangsong (all qv). There was a colour change after the first twelve releases: the initial black-on-white (1, 2) turned to brown-on-creamy-white (3, 4) - thanks to John Timmis for supplying those two scans. The discography below only covers the 1970s. Singles in a WEENY-0 series were all 12" only, apart from the Patrik Fitzgerald one listed. Distribution was by Lightning from January 1978, and later by Rough Trade.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.