Small Wonder Records was a British

independent record label An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME. The labels and artists are often represented ...

owned and managed by Pete and Mari Stennett, that specialised in releasing records by punk rock and

post-punk Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of punk music that emerged in the late 1970s as musicians departed from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-roc ...

bands. It operated out of a record shop of the same name at 162 Hoe Street,

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, London. Artists to have released on the label include

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Crass Crass were an English art collective and punk rock band formed in Epping, Essex in 1977, who promoted anarchism as a political ideology, a way of life, and a resistance movement. Crass popularised the anarcho-punk movement of the punk s ...

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Patrik Fitzgerald Patrik Fitzgerald (born Patrick Joseph Fitzgerald, 19 March 1956, Stratford, London, Stratford, East London)Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 68 is an English singer-songwriter and an originator of folk p ...

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Cockney Rejects Cockney Rejects are an English punk rock band (music), band that formed in the East End of London in 1978. Their 1980 song "Oi, Oi, Oi" was the inspiration for the name of the Oi! music genre. The band members are supporters of West Ham United ...

, The Carpettes,

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and

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. The shop and labels logo, as featured on its famous paper bags, was of a well-dressed Edwardian family; the mother was white while the father and vicar were black. The baby in the picture was mixed race and according to Pete Stennett provided him with the inspiration for the name 'Small Wonder'.

Discography

Albums

* Cravat-1

- ''Cravats In Toytown''

Singles

* Small One Puncture - "Mucky Pup" / "You Can't Rock n Roll In A Council Flat" 7" * Small Two Zeros - "Hungry" / "Radio Fun" 7" * Small Three The Carpettes - "How About Me And You" 7" (4 track EP) * Small Four Patrik Fitzgerald - "Safety-Pin Stuck In My Heart" 7" (6 track EP) * Small Five Menace - "GLC" / "I'm Civilised" 7" * Small Six Patrick Fitzgerald - "Backstreet Boys" 7" (4 track EP) * Small Seven

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- "19 & Mad" / "Villain" / "Youthanasia" 7" * Small Eight

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- "Puppet Life" / "The Demon" 7" * Small Nine Carpettes - "Small Wonder" / "2 NE 1" 7" * Small Ten Demon Preacher - "Little Miss Perfect" / "Perfect Dub" 7" * Small Eleven The Cure - " Killing An Arab" / "10.15 Saturday Night" 7" (Later re-released on

Fiction Records Fiction Records is a British record label founded by Chris Parry in 1978, owned by Universal Music Group and based in the United Kingdom. It is best known for being the home of The Cure for over 20 years. It was originally a part of Polydor, ...

) * Small Twelve Nicky & The Dots - "Never Been So Stuck" / "Linoleum Walk" 7" * Small Thirteen Wall - "New Way" / "Suckers" / "Uniforms" 7" * Small Fourteen Molesters - "Disco Love" / "Commuter Man" 7" * Small Fifteen

- "The End" 7" (3 track EP) * Small Sixteen Menace - 2Last Year's Youth" / "Carry No Banners" 7" * Small Seventeen Murder The Disturbed - "Genetic Disruption" 7" (3 track EP) * Small Eighteen Molesters - "End Of Civilisation" / "Girl Behind The Curtain" 7" * Small Nineteen Cockney Rejects - "Flares 'n' Slippers" / "Police Car" / "I Wanna Be A Star" 7" * Small Twenty Fatal Microbes - "Violence Grows" / "Beautiful Pictures" / "Cry Baby" 7" * Small Twenty-One Wall - "Exchange" / "Kiss The Mirror" 7" * Small Twenty-Two English Subtitles - "Time Tunnel" / "Sweat" / "Reconstruction" 7" * Small Twenty-Three Proles - "Soft Ground" / "SMK" 7" * Small Twenty-Four

- "Precinct" / "Who's In Here With Me?" 7" * Small Twenty-Five

- "You're Driving Me" / "I Am The Dreg" 7" * Small Twenty-Six

- "Off The Beach" / "And The Sun Shone" 7" * Small Twenty-Seven

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- "They've Got It All Wrong" 7" (4 Track EP) * Small Twenty-Eight

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- "Destitution" / "Race In Athens" 7" * RT/SW-001 Angelic Upstarts - "Murder Of Liddle Towers" / "Police Oppression" 7" (Reissue of Angelic Upstarts label press) * Weeny 1 Patrik Fitzgerald - "Paranoid Ward" EP 12" 9 track EP, also on 7" * Weeny 2 Crass - "Feeding Of The Five Thousand" 12" (18 track EP, later reissued on the Crass label) * Weeny 3 Poison Girls / Fatal Microbes - "Closed Shop" / "Piano Lessons" / "Violence Grows" / "Beautiful Pictures" 12" * Weeny 4 Poison Girls - "Hex" 12" (8 track EP, reissued on Crass) * Teeny 1 Frank Sumatra - "Te Deum" 12" (4 track EP) * Teeny 2 Bauhaus - "

Bela Lugosi's Dead "Bela Lugosi's Dead" is a song by the English post-punk band Bauhaus. It was the band's first single, released on 6 August 1979 by record label Small Wonder. It is often considered the first gothic rock record. History "Bela Lugosi's Dead" was ...

" / "Boys" / "Dark Entries" (Demo) 12" (White vinyl, 5,000 only - reissued many times)

References

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Discography

Albums

Singles

See also

References