Founded in 1978, Cherry Red Records is one of the UK's leading independent record labels.
As well as releasing music, we offer a business-to-business service for those parties interested in licensing recordings. We offer a huge variety of music covering many different genres, eras, artists and labels.
Whether you would like to license individual tracks or whole albums, or you are interested in other usages (synchronization, premium, direct response, etc.), feel free to get in touch.
Holier Than Thou started in 1995 launching with a double page spread in the Kerrang magazine and various featured cover-mounts in Metal Hammer, Classic Rock and Rock Sound. Initially working as a booking agent arranging gigs UK wide including live showcases at Rock City Nottingham, The Marque and LA2 London KIng Tuts Glasgow. In the late 90′s we diverted to label services, music promotion and more recently music publishing. Promotion and release highlights include Uli Jon Roth ( Scorpions), Trevor Bolder (Uriah Heep & Bowies Spiders from Mars) Stevie Jones (UK Subs), Never The Bride, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, Geno Washington Today we represent JOANovARC (all girl rock band Xbox 360 notoriety with 3 tracks on Rock Band), emerging metal band NG26 (Rich Shaw now touring with Cradle of Filth) post rock The Tripdown Project and Sonny Jim. We also have friends in the US (Respectable Artists asked us to work with Super Super (Cheap Tricks main touring band), ClassX (Canada) and Aggressive Chill (reaching number 2 in the Netherlands iTunes charts)
We manage a complete release from distribution, promotion and publishing our music management is designed for longer term association, building an artist’s profile through consecutive fresh campaigns. To create commercial demand for new music and back catalogue we select (with the artist input) the best songs for single commercial release, or track promotions for media, social and music business networking.