We are thrilled to have been shortlisted at this year’s Music Week Awards in the Catalogue Marketing category for our Suede 30 campaign! Wish us luck!

Mark your calendars! We have announced our eclectic collection of exclusive records as part of the annual vinyl-lovers event, Record Store Day!

RSD takes place on the 20th April. Please visit the RSD website to find participating stores near you and support your local record store!

Romance is in the air so put on our Spotify Valentine’s’ playlist of timeless love songs:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/demonmusicgroupuk/playlist/1YTU5cjZMB8sSY1PH5qpDb

Thank you to Resident Music for including the brilliant compilation, Steven Wilson Presents: Intrigue – Progressive Sounds In UK Alternative Music 1979–89′ in their ‘comps of the year 2023’!

Read more: https://www.resident-music.com/collection&path=51835

Head over to the Townsend Music Artist Stores to get your hands on some limited signed editions from artists including Art Brut and Claire Richards. With a wide range of albums and compilations to choose from, there’s something for everyone (and get a cheeky treat for yourself!). https://townsendmusic.store/products/section/15599

Black Friday has arrived and we have lots of deals on selected releases at Amazon UK! Click the link to see the range: https://demonrecords.lnk.to/blackfriday

YouTube’s prestigious Silver Award has been awarded to our YouTube channel for passing 100K subscribers! Congratulations to Team Digital and a huge thank you to everyone who has subscribed to our channel.

The award is looking very shiny will take pride of place in our office!

Visit the official T.Rex YouTube channel for some great content include music videos newly restored to HD and an interview with Rolan Bolan and John Kosh.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWC72jujh_9nDmTJNsTUIA

Good Omens returns to Prime Video

The news we’ve all been waiting for! Good Omens returns for a second season to Prime Video on the 28th July!

Our gorgeous 4LP vinyl BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation is available and a great addition to your record collection!

For the first time ever on vinyl, Good Omens is adapted and co-directed for BBC Radio 4 by the award-winning Dirk Maggs (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Neverwhere; Stardust; Anansi Boys; The X-Files; Alien; Batman; Superman). It is based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett and stars Mark Heap as Aziraphale and Peter Serafinowicz as Crowley.

The unique four 180g heavyweight heaven and hell split black and white vinyl — includes a laser-etched Side B — are presented in illustrated wallets inside a rigid, bound 16 page book, with exclusive sleeve notes written by Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs.

Order now: https://neilgaiman.lnk.to/goodomens

Visit the Museum of Youth Culture in London’s Berwick Street between 22nd-4th April to see ‘The Batcave’ exhibition which will use excerpts from the book that is available in 5CD and 6LP format and are out now!

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We are so excited that our “Life Moves Pretty Fast: The John Hughes Mixtapes” release has been shortlisted for CATALOGUE MARKETING CAMPAIGN at this year’s Music Week Awards!

The day that every vinyl lover circles in their diary, RSD 2023 takes place on the 22nd April and the official list has now been announced. Visit the RSD website to find participating stores near you!

A lot of people have brought to our attention that the tracks on CD2 and CD3 are the same and they are both CD3.

The tracks on CD2 are actually correct, they have just been mislabelled on the Disc itself and have the same track names as CD3.

It appears that there has been an error in the track listing on Gracenote (which pulls in track information from a database) where Disc 2 has the same track names as Disc 3 but they are mislabelled, the tracks themselves on Disc 2 are correct.

We have contacted Gracenote now and asked for the track names to be updated but in the meantime, please can you check that the tracks on Disc 2 are correct despite the mislabelling.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off + Panel at the BFI followed by a launch party at Spiritland

Replay Tim’s Listening Party for ‘Thirty Days Out’ by The Montrose Avenue hosted by Matt Everitt. Replay

Listen to the album Spotify

Come visit our TikTok channel and give us a follow! https://www.tiktok.com/@demonmusicgroup

Dog Trumpet, one of Australia’s most unique bands is about to go global with Demon Music.  After thirty years of performing and recording, all seven albums will be available on vinyl for the first time and remastered for digital release. https://smarturl.it/DogTrumpetDigital

Reg Mombassa and his brother Peter O’Doherty began their musical careers playing and writing in the ARIA Hall of Fame inductees band Mental As Anything. The Mentals had 20 songs in the top 40 (a record for an Australian band) and a global hit with ‘Live It Up’ that only last Christmas hit #1 on manyUK charts.

In 2000, Reg and Pete split from the Mentals to pursue their own sound. Describing what that is can be tricky – an eclectic blend of rock, psychedelic folk and semi-abstract blues; whimsical, political, curious, intimate, scientific, erotic and witty.  They are part of a long tradition of left-field song writers and storytellers relative to the canon of work by such acts as the Kinks, Nick Lowe, Squeeze and John Prine.

The Sydney Morning Herald said: “Brothers Peter O’Doherty and Reg Mombassa can’t help themselves. The charm oozes from the lyrics, the singing and the instantly appealing melodies. Part of it is down to the absence of posturing, part to the way the catchiness of pop is anchored to earthy grooves.”

Dog Trumpet have released seven albums so far. Produced by Peter and written by both of them. The title of the first one ‘Two Heads One Brain’ sums them up, the brothers having an intuitive melodic connection that infuses their music with a classic timelessness.  

Peter and Reg are also visual artists.  Reg is one of Australia’s most recognised artists well known for his work for the Mambo label, along with graphics, posters, album covers and many decades of fine art. Peter’s fine art painting focuses on the urban and suburban built environment and is equally well regarded.

Dog Trumpet have toured extensively throughout Australia, and a little bit across the US, culminating at SXSW a few years ago.  Demon Music recently approached Dog Trumpet about releasing their back catalogue internationally.  The Demon label was started by Jake Riviera and Elvis Costello who later produced the Mentals single ‘I Didn’t Mean to be Mean’.

Demon Music is known as one of the best catalogue/reissue labels in the world releasing specialist BBC titles and focusing on niche and cult bands.  Digital release on all platforms is 16th July 2021, vinyl release is 29th October 2021.  

Dog Trumpet’s seven albums are; Two Heads One Brain, Suitcase, Dog Trumpet (self titled), Antisocial Tendencies, River of Flowers, Medicated Spirits and their latest Great South Road.

Happy 40th Birthday Demon!

Demon Records (as it was then) was founded by A&R man Andrew Lauder, Jake Riviera, and Elvis Costello.

The first Demon release was by an unknown girl group called Bananarama.

Much has changed in the last 40 years but not only have we survived, we’ve grown too and we continue to look forward to the future and bring you more new releases and deluxe reissues.

And a HUGE thank you to all of you for supporting us and working with us over the years! We couldn’t have done it without you!

Watch Steve & Reece as they unbox the now-sold-out Vinyl Cuts Box Set for the very first time!