One of those cases where a record doesn't have a label name and I've had to use the band's name as an identifier. In April 1979 Glasgow Punk / New Wave outfit The Zips put out an EP featuring 'Take Me Down', 'Don't Be Pushed Around', 'I'm In Love' and 'Over And Over'; funding was provided by Charlie Hayes, the owner of a local record shop. The labels bore a family resemblance to those of Craighall Studios (q.v.). As can be seen they had 'Published by Black Gold Music' at the bottom; on some sites the label is given as 'Black Gold Music' but I'm not convinced that that's justified. The Black Gold studio did however go on to have its own label, which has a page on this site. The catalogue number of the Zips EP was ZIPS-1. The band went on to release a single, 'Radioactivity' b/w 'I'm Not Impressed', on their own Tenement Toons label (TEN-1; 1980) before splitting up at the end of 1980. The scan comes by courtesy of Bruce of the "My Life's A Jigsaw" blogspot, by way of James Trash of the 45Cat site; my thanks to both. An illustrated article about The Zips can be found on the Bored Teenagers site.
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