An independent label, based in the Bishop's Stortford / Harlow area. Stortbeat was run by Gordon Wilkins and Pete Lawrence. Its numbering system was slightly peculiar: in the wake of its first release, The Gangsters' 'Record Company' (A-45; 1979) it issued at least six more singles and one LP using a BEAT-0 series with occasional exceptions. Featured artists included The Licks, later known as The Epileptics - who evolved into the Anarcho-Punk group Flux Of Pink Indians - and NWOBHM band Deadringer. The label started up in 1979 and was wound up c.1980. Thanks to Simon Hughes for the first scan, and to Sam Mauger for the second.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.