This particular Big label seems to have been one of the many independent companies which came and went during the New Wave years. Going by catalogue numbers, it would appear to have released at least six singles during 1978-79, but I have only been able to trace three of them, which suggesrs that the numbering started at SOLD-4. For some reason the company's name, Big Records, appears to have gained a question mark at the end of it from SOLD-5 onwards; from that time too the titles appeared on one side only (3, 4). The picture on the 'B' side of the Hobbs' record, incidentally, features a map of part of Birmingham city centre. Distribution for at least part of the time was by Graduate Records, of Dudley, which is further evidence that Big was from the Midlands, and by Rough Trade. Thanks to Paul Winsall for the third and fourth scans.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.