The most northerly label on this site. Thule was based on the Shetland Islands and was run by local businessman Bobby Bayes. It started out in 1965 and was still operating in the mid '80s. Initially it concentrated on EPs, along with an occasional single, all of which were numbered in an SNI-200 series, but in 1970 it began to focus on LPs. In or around 1978, after issuing around 18 albums, it appears to have abandoned vinyl in favour of cassette tapes. The few of its releases that I have seen have featured traditional Scottish material with an understandable emphasis on the songs and music of the Shetlands. The majority of Thule's 7" records came out in the 1960s. Their labels were undated, but newspaper reports and clues on some of the EP covers have led to several release years being established; OldWeirdScotland and Herestoscottish of the 45Cat site have done some sterling work in that area, and most of the dates in the discography below are owed to them. One label design appears to have served throughout. Thanks to Klepsie of 45Cat for letting me know that Thule was still issuing 7" records in the early 70s.
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