Browse the complete Attrix Discography (compiled and sent in by Weed, cheers mate)

Attrix Records, the label, began with a single titled Hard Times b/w Lost Lenore. This was prefixed RB01. the letters being the abbreviation of the man's name who formed the label, Rick Blair. Only 500 copies were pressed at a cost of £250, which was made up of savings and a loan from a friend. Hard Times was by a group called Attrix, a three piece in which Rick himself was guitarist and vocalist. He also wrote the two songs on the record.

Next step was a compilation LP called Vaultage 78, made up of local bands, an innovative move at that time. A further three singles followed, again by local bands and then in December 1979 a second Brighton music compilation Vaultage 79 was released using new local bands.

Then came a 12 inch single by the Parrots, an EP by the Chefs and by the end of the year a third and final volume of local music, Vaultage 80

Attrix Shop Attrix Records, the shop, was situated on Sydney Street in the North Laines- the throbbing heart of creative Brighton then as it is now, only it was different back then, though always ahead of its time.

You could buy all the cool albums- New York Dolls, Velvet Underground, the B52's, Dead Kennedys, Talking Heads, this was the new music from the USA and the cool stuff from the UK at the time- Sex Pistols, Stranglers, Clash, Jam, Damned, Sham 69, UK Subs, Ian Dury, etc as well as a lot of more obscure stuff that would also later go mainstream.

Attrix records sold cheaper than at any other outlets, a measure of Rick and his philosophy, music for the people, by the people.

Read Stuart Jones' Attrix Memoirs