Raw Fruit Records was an independent record label

Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 active in the early 1990s. It specialised in releasing recordings made for or by BBC Radio One for broadcast on Tommy Vance

Tommy Vance

Tommy Vance was a British pop radio broadcaster, born in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. He was one of the few music broadcasters in the United Kingdom to champion hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans...

's Friday Rock Show

Friday Rock Show

The Friday Rock Show was a radio show in the United Kingdom that was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 from 10pm to midnight on Friday nights from 1978 to 1993. Throughout most of its run it was hosted by Tommy Vance. Ostensibly for the genre of rock in general, it was most closely associated with heavy metal...

radio programme.

Discography

Samson

Samson (band)

Samson was a British hard rock band formed in 1977 by guitarist and vocalist Paul Samson. They are best known for their first three albums with future Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson, then known as "Bruce Bruce", and drummer Thunderstick , who wore a leather mask and performed on stage in a...

 – Live At Reading '81 – FRSCD001

Gillan

Gillan

Gillan was a rock band formed in 1978 by Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan.-History:In 1978 Ian Gillan had become dissatisfied with the jazz fusion style of his band called the Ian Gillan Band and dissolved it, retaining only keyboard player Colin Towns, and formed a new band entitled Gillan...

 – Live At Reading 1980 – FRSCD002

• Unchain Your Brain; Mr Universe; If You Believe Me; Trouble; Vengeance; Smoke On The Water
• Ian Gillan; Colin Towns; John McCoy; Bernie Tormé; Mick Underwood

Ten Years After

Ten Years After

Ten Years After is an English blues-rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart...

 – Live at Reading '83 – FRSCD003

• Love Like A Man; Good Morning Little Schoolgirl; Slow Blues In 'C'; Suzie Q; Hobbit; I May Be Wrong But I Won't Be Wrong Always; I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes/ Extension On One Chord; Going Home

Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...

 – Live At Hammersmith '84 – FRSCD004

• Locomotive Breath (Instrumental); Hunting Girl; Under Wraps; Later That Same Evening; Pussy Willow; Living In The Past; Locomotive Breath; Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll

Hawkwind

Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....

 – Live At Reading 1986 – FRSCD005

• Magnu; Angels of Death; Pulsing Cavern; Assault and Battery; Needle Gun; Master of the Universe; Utopia; Dream Worker; Assassins Of Allah; Silver Machine
• Dave Brock; Huw Lloyd-Langton; Harvey Bainbridge; Alan Davey; Danny Thompson; Lemmy; Dumpy

Diamond Head

Diamond Head (band)

Diamond Head are an English heavy metal band formed in 1976 in Stourbridge, England. The band is recognised as one of the leading members of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and is acknowledged by later bands like Metallica and Megadeth as an important early influence.-Early history:Formed by...

 – Live At Reading 1982 – FRSCD006

• Sweet And Innocent; Lightning To The Nations; Am I Evil; In The Heat Of The Light; Borrowed Time; Don't You Ever Leave Me; Sucking My Love; Play It Loud
• Tracks 1 & 2 in session 1980. Remaining tracks live 1982.

Bernie Marsden

Bernie Marsden

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 – The Friday Rock Sessions – FRSCD007

• Who's Fooling Who 4:19; Shakey Ground 4:19; Look At Me Now 4:21; Byblos Shack 4:37; Liar 4:14; Give It To Me 3:44; Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues 4:49; S.O.S. 4:42; So Wrong 6:20; Come On 4:14; If Lovin' You Is Wrong 7:15
• David Coverdale; Bernie Marsden; Micky Moody; Neil Murray; Don Airey; Simon Phillips

Raven

Raven (band)

Raven are an English heavy metal band associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. They had a hit with the single "On and On", and refer to their music as "athletic rock".-Formation:...

/Venom

Venom (band)

Venom are an English heavy metal band that formed in 1979 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Coming to prominence towards the end of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Venom's first two albums—Welcome to Hell and Black Metal —are considered a major influence on thrash metal and extreme metal in general...

/Warfare – Radio Hell – FRSCD009

• Raven: Lambs To The Slaughter; Hold Back The Fire; Hard Ride; Chainsaw
• Venom: Black Metal; Nightmare; Too Loud For The Crowd; Bloodlust
• Warfare: Death Charge; Burn Down The Kings Road; Ebony Dreams; Revolution

Man

Man (band)

Man are a rock band from South Wales whose style is a mixture of West Coast psychedelia, progressive rock, blues and country-rock. Formed in 1968 as a reincarnation of Welsh rock harmony group ‘’The Bystanders’’, Man are renowned for the extended jams in their live performances, and having had...

 – Live at Reading '83 – FRSCD010

• Spunk Rock 7:34; C'mon 7:15; Talk About a Morning 7:58; The Ride And The View 4:52; Asylum 5:43; Romain 6:02; Bananas 7:43
• Deke Leonard; Micky Jones; Martin Ace; John Weathers

Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction – Live at Reading 1987 – FRSCD011

• Skull Spark Joker; High Priest of Love; High Heel Heaven; Kid's Stuff; Speed King; Bad Girl City; Planet Girl; Holy Gasoline; Tattooed Beat Messiah; Let's Break the Law; Prime Mover