An independent from the Punk / New Wave years. Warm started out as a vehicle for records by New Wave band The Warm; its first three singles were by that band - 'The Kooler' (WARM-2001; 1976), 'Crazy Daisy Lazy' (WARM-2002; 1977), and 'Floosie' (WARM-2003; 5/78). A change of catalogue numbers followed with the Fred Banana Combo's, 'No Destination Blues' (AMWR-2004 / PF-9001), which was recorded in Germany by a German Punk band; at this point Plastic Fantastic were doing the marketing with Pye handling distribution. Two Portuguese brothers, Rui and George De Castro Guimaraes, were prominent members of the band The Warm; presumably it was that Portuguese connection which led to several singles which came out on other labels over here, by artists as diverse as the Dead Kennedys, Spizzenergi and Shakin' Stevens & The Sunsets, being released on the Warm label in Portugal in the early '80s. The same AMWR-2000 series was used for the Portuguese issues; records numbered from AMWR-2008 on seem to have only been issued in Portugal. Thanks to T. P. McLoughlin for the first scan and James Denholm for the second. See also the MHG label, which was intimately involved with Warm.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.