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Stephen Hodd – Temperance, 33 Bath Street, Leamington Spa, CV31 3AF on Sunday 27th July 2025

18 July 2025Mark

“A unique talent, closest comparison John Martyn… a confident delivery of great songs with a devil-may-care attitude.” Listen to the Stephen Hodd Bandcamp compilation "Songs from 1999 to 2021" for Iron Man Records friends and family on a secret link here. Stephen Hodd - Sunday 27 July 2025 at Temperance, 33 Bath Street, Leamington Spa, CV31 3AF Venue Website: https://www.temperance.bar Doors open: 2pm for a Matinee Show - Free Entry 2 x 45 minute sets with the Music starting at 2.30pm There will be 50 seats available only, be sure to RSVP as soon as you can here:  www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-guitar-temperance-stephen-hodd-tickets-1434586319299   Venue is open from 9am – 7pm (Kitchen until 3pm) Bar until…

Watch Stephen Hodd – Thursday 19th June 2025 (Full Show) at Green Note, London

21 June 2025Mark

Green Note is a multiple award-winning live music venue and vegetarian café-bar, located in Camden Town, London. Stephen’s live shows are a testament to his artistry, seamlessly blending live looping, acoustic and electric guitars, and even samplers to create unforgettable performances. Stephen believes that words, when skilfully woven with music, hold the power to heal. Stephen explores the fertile ground between acoustic storytelling and raw, experimental sonic treatment. Stephen’s career has earned him support slots with such luminaries as Mark Knopfler, Bonnie Raitt, Damien Rice, Passenger, Mundy, and Rodrigo y Gabriela. “A unique talent, closest comparison John Martyn… a confident delivery of great songs with a devil-may-care attitude.” — Bandcamp fan…

Stephen Hodd – Thursday 19th June 2025 at Green Note, 106 Parkway, London, NW1 7AN

14 June 2025Mark

Green Note is a multiple award-winning live music venue and vegetarian café-bar, located in Camden Town, London (less than 5 mins walk from Camden Town tube station). Join us. If you are an Iron Man Records Patron get in touch and I will add you to the guestlist. “A unique talent, closest comparison John Martyn… a confident delivery of great songs with a devil-may-care attitude.” — Bandcamp fan review If you like Bon Iver, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and John Martyn, (especially his guitar) you're good, Stephen’s work channels that raw energy, and the abandon of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Dirty Three, and Low. Stephen’s career has earned him support slots with…

Iron Man Records downloads will be available at NAME YOUR PRICE on BANDCAMP Friday March 5th

2 March 2021Mark

This week, on BANDCAMP Friday which will be March 5th - All Iron Man Records downloads will be available at NAME YOUR PRICE. In other words, PAY THE ARTIST WHAT YOU LIKE. This means you can have any download you want in exchange for your email address at check out. If you have the means to do so, you can pay your own price. All Money will go to the artists. Death To Fanatics - Iron Man Records Compilation 1999-2021 by Iron Man Records Iron Man Records is giving Artists 100% of ALL their net revenue, dating back to when I set the bandcamp page up in 2010. Madness perhaps but…

Iron Man Records on Discogs

12 January 2021Mark

Iron Man Records has listed 331 items on Discogs and 169 items can be found for under £5. There are 202 CDs, 132 Vinyl and 3 DVDs. Here's the link to the Iron Man Records store on Discogs. Have a look when you get a moment. Originally created as a hobby project in 2000 by Kevin Lewandowski, Discogs has grown to become a definitive resource for Vinyl and CD recordings. The Discogs Marketplace connects buyers and sellers across the globe. With more than 58 million items available and thousands of sellers, this is the premier spot from new releases to hard to find gems. Because the Marketplace is built on top…

Dead Wax Digbeth, 28 Adderley St, Digbeth, Birmingham, B9 4ED. New Birmingham venue and ‘vinyl bar’ opens

25 November 2019Mark

“. . . an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati - 45 Birmingham and Midlands artists and DJs launch Dead Wax Digbeth from Thursday 28th November - Venue will be home to a collection of 4000 records, operating an ‘all vinyl, all the time’ policy - Music fans invited to play the venue’s records or bring own vinyl to play at city’s newest music destination - Craft beers from Beavertown, Laine Brew Co. and local breweries on offer all year round Dead Wax Digbeth 28 Adderley St, Digbeth, Birmingham…

Brassick – Appreciate Your Concern EP released on Iron Man Records 15th October 2017

8 September 2017Mark

IMB6038 Brassick - Appreciate Your Concern EP Released on Iron Man Records, 15th October 2017 Brassick are Nicola, Peter, Jay & George. Hailing from the West Midlands UK, Brassick have a fast growing following and reputation as one of the most exciting bands around. Playing a mash up sound of punk, metal and hardcore, they released their first EP “Broke & Restless” in 2013. This was followed two years later in 2015 with their self titled debut album. The band are proudly independent but have worked closely throughout their time with French Label Mass Prod who have helped establish them amongst the punk scene in France and further afield. Now in…

How does Iron Man Records choose it's artists and how does it promote them?

27 November 2009Mark

“HOW DOES THE PUNK MUSIC RECORD LABEL, IRON MAN RECORDS CHOOSE ITS ARTISTS AND HOW DOES IT PROMOTE THEM?” writtten by JANINE LABUSCAGNE BA (HONS) Media & Communication, University of Central England, 2007. “.....There are two kinds of music – good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music that I don’t want to hear” Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life, 1978 The objective of this study discusses promotional strategies generated by the independent record label, Iron Man Records. The research examined the use of the Internet as a free marketing tool and how traditional methods of running a label did not have an affect on…

Birmingham Twinned with Your Darkest Thought?

10 November 2008Mark

"Pop music (or what ever sub-genre title you feel comfortable using) should never be subsidised by the state. The Arts Council or similar bodies must never be allowed to get near it. If any particular form of pop music can not survive in the cut and thrust of the market place it should be allowed to whither and die. The same goes for all the rooms above pubs and dodgy clubs. If people don't want to pay the price for the ticket and would rather spend the night down the local Weatherspoons drinking cheap lager, so be it. Culture has to be on the move, in a state of continual flux…

Your Darkest Thought. State Funding and Music, You have been warned.

20 June 2007Mark

I was thinking about writing my own piece on this but then I found myself at The Adelphi in Hull with Dufus. After a long conversation with Paul, the owner of The Adelphi, who has proved a one man army behind the best gig in Hull for independent bands, I decided instead to quote you some words written by Bill Drummond as a contribution to "One Man and His Bog." The Photos are mine, the words are Bill's, The Adelphi is Paul's and the people who work there are some of the best you'll find. Oh Yeah, and public funding or state sponsorhip of the arts has had nothing to do…

Framework Studios

20 May 2007Mark

Framework Recording Studios Iron Man Records works with Framework studios, Birmingham. Based on Floodgate street, Digbeth, the studio is walking distance from the City Centre and it's easy to find. There's plenty of free parking outside. In the past Framework Studios has worked with Napalm Death, Carcass, Cathedral, Meathook Seed, P.J.Harvey, Ride, Family Cat and other acts including Harpies, Damn Dirty Apes, Last under The Sun, IOD, Godsize, Long Time Dead, Locus of Control, Piss On Authority, Police Bastard, Spirit Bomb and more. If you are after a top producer call Simon at Framework on: 07790 158210