Speech Fewapy Records is a Birmingham based independent record label run by members of The Traps.
The label was founded so the band could release their own EPs without the added constraints of external pressures forced upon them by music industry types or by God himself. 2009 saw the release of three EPs, 'Luna', 'Elk' and The Honey Drip'. All were released in download only formats and were all made available for free. The three EPs were downloaded a combined total of over 1,500 times.
As an ambitious bunch of people, Speech Fewapy Records is now building on this success by announcing the addition of two artists, MALPAS and GREG BIRD & FLAMINGO FLAME, to their roster. We suggest you listen to both by clicking on the myspace links above. Both have releases set for March and April 2010, so stay tuned for updates.
Speech Fewapy Records also launched Speech Fewapy Radio in 2009. Speech Fewapy Radio is a series of podcasts recorded in Birmingham, Edinburgh, New York City and Montreal and downloaded all around the world. The last time we checked (which was yesterday), Speech Fewapy Radio had 2,000 subscribers on iTunes.
Speech Fewapy’s four founding fathers attempt to fill ‘’the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run’’(Rudyard Kipling ‘’If’’) unleashing both the sublime and ridiculous upon your ‘shell-likes’ in their show 'Kitchen Party!'
Bringing you our slice of the Speech Fewapy pie from our beloved B13 crows nest, the show will be packed full of music we’re obsessed with, delivered to you in every format we can feasibly supply it. Live sessions from the bands we love and interviews with those who make and shake the community we move in will feature heavily alongside discussion on everything and anything that we deem worthy of a listener’s ear.
Our philosophy is that the best partys happen in the Kitchen! Friends, lend us your ears and come and join ours!’’
Last week we ran a promotion for Tom Peel’s EP release this week which involved us biking copies of Tom’s new EP ‘Triple Vlick It’ to those who replied to our mailing list email with their Birmingham addresses. On Saturday we made good on our promise and delivered to all those we could reach in the city. Due to our courier numbers being a little more depleted than expected (there was just me and Nick in the end) we were unable to deliver to an address in Redditch and one in Sutton. Apologies guys we just ran out of daylight! Next time we won’t fail you, I hope you don’t mind receiving your advanced copies by snail mail.
Here are some photos from our travels on Saturday, we saw some areas of Birmingham we didn’t know existed and it was all a bit of an adventure so at the moment we are definitely still harboring future plans to do the same with each Speech Fewapy release.
Thanks again to all those who took part we hope you enjoy the EP as much as we’re doing and hope to see you at the launch gig on the 24th.
