ABOUT

Who is Wireless Records??

One Sunday afternoon, late 2002, my housemate / bandmate and I, strolled on down to our local watering hole, where under the fuzzy haze of Carlton Draught, we joked about our frustrations as an independent band, and how it could be a good laugh to start our own label. The very next day, I thought seriously about the idea of starting a label, and thought, why not! At this point in time both my friend and I had no idea how to run a label, let alone run a business, but, we simply jumped into the thick of it without much thought or planning... Over the first three years, we didn't do much, as in we had a label, but we had no money and no artists! So, we decided to put out a compilation of Independent Melbourne bands, mainly bands we knew at the time, as a way of cheaply putting out a release without actually having any artists on the label! We couldn't come up with a name, so we called a spade a spade, and gave it the title "Wireless Records: A Compilation". This compilation was a freeby that we distributed at gigs. Shortly after "A Compilation" was out, we decided to get our own band into gear and we put out a single, which also was a freeby given out a gigs. By this stage, we were starting to like the idea of giving away cds as a way of promoting the label, so that's exactly what we did, we released another compilation, and simply called it "A Compilation 2". It was after the launch of Comp 2 that we decided we needed to actually get serious, and put out our first official release. So, in 2005, that's what we did, WIRE-001 came out on August 1, 2005; the debut EP for my band Sunny Disposition. In the back of my mind, this was what I had wanted to do from day one, to make the debut release of Wireless Records my own and hopefully, grow from there. Shortly after the release of WIRE-001, we decided to put in some serious hours and make this label work.

Today, 2010, Wireless Records is in dire need of a new website! Seriously though, we are really really working on it, I promise...!... I know I've been saying that for a while now, but there have been some serious hours put in. Seriously. 2010 is planned to be a big year for Wireless Records. This year, you will see new releases by Radiant City, Ivy St, Animal Shapes and Slight Of Build. There are a few other little things planned, un-official hand-made type stuff to go along with our national releases, just to mix it up a bit.

Brad & the Wireless crew.