This Stage One company's main line of business was as a record distributor, but during 1979-84 it appears to have made several forays into the record making business. Its first release was in co-operation with ZE records (q.v.), and was a reissue of the Nazis Against Fascism single 'Sid Did It' (STAGE-1), which originally came out on the Truth label (q.v.). The New Wave discography on the Worthless Trash site dates it at the 14th of December 1979, as does the 45 Revolutions book; as that's only six weeks or so later than the Truth issue it seems a little on the quick side, but it's certainly not impossible. July 1980 saw the arrival of the second single, Squire's 'My Mind Goes Round In Circles' (STAGE-2), which had no ZE connection; what it did have was a different label design, one with a stage coach logo. There was then something of a gap until an album by James T. Pursey, 'Revenge Is Not The Password' (CODE-01; 1983); a single by the same artist, 'If Only Before', was put out in March 1984 in both 12" (CODE-02) and 7" (CODE-027) forms. Unsurprisingly, Stage One handled the distribution of its records itself. Thanks to Sam Mauger for bringing the label to my attention and for supplying the scan.
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