BUNBURY



A custom recording label, run by engineer Chas Bowles.  Bunbury's albums and singles shared the same numbering series, 'DCS-000'; though earlier items seem to have had an extra '0'; the shortage of references to Bunbury records before DCS-0300 suggests that that numbering may have started there, though it's impossible to be sure.  The few Bunbury albums I have seen listed were by brass bands: for the sake of interest I have included them in the 'discography' below.  Sandwiched in amongst them were two singles, 'Troubled Times' by NWOBHM band Spoonfull (DSS-340: 1977), a copy of which went for in excess of £400 on ebay recently, and the Ashbourne Town Band's version of 'The Laughing Policeman' (DCS-400; 1979).  The label of the Spoonfull record was orange with silver printing.  The gaps in the discography indicate that there might be a lot of other Bunbury records out there, but the fact that all the ones that I've found end in '0' makes me suspect that they all may have done so, and that the discography isn't quite as pathetic as it appears.  It may be that consecutive records were numbered 400, 410, 420, 430 and so on, rather than 400, 401, 402, ect, which would explain why what would otherwise be a large number of records has left so little trace.  As is the nature with custom recordings, Bunbury records must have been pressed in small quantities and are therefore difficult to find.

Copyright 2008 Robert Lyons.