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Hangman Records is a British

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independent record label

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founded in 1986

1986 in music

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by Billy Childish

Billy Childish

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. It has released over 50 LP Records, including spoken word

Spoken word

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, experimental

Experimental music

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works and punk rock

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.

Many local Medway groups

Medway groups

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and artists had their first releases on the label, which is independent and non profit making.

For a time Hangman also had a subsidiary called Hangman's Daughter.

Discography

catalog #	artist	title	year	notes
HANG-01 UP	The Milkshakes	The Milkshakes Revenge!	1987	recorded in 1983
HANG-02 UP	Billy Childish	I've Got Everything Indeed	1987
HANG-03 UP	Thee Mighty Caesars Thee Mighty Caesars Thee Mighty Caesars were a primitive garage punk group, formed by Billy Childish in 1985 after the demise of The Milkshakes. They influenced many American bands, especially The Mummies, and Sub Pop groups...	Don't Give Any Dinner to Henry Chinaski	1987
HANG-04 UP	various	Medway Powerhouse Vol.1	1987
HANG-05 UP	Billy Childish & Sexton Ming Sexton Ming Sexton Ming is a British artist, poet and musician who was a founding member of The Medway Poets and the Stuckists art group .-Life and career:...	Which Dead Donkey Daddy?	1987
HANG-06 UP	Sexton Ming	Old Horse of the Nation	1987
HANG-07 UP	Thee Mighty Caesars	Punk Rock Showcase	1987
HANG-08 UP	various	Medway Powerhouse Vol.2	1987
HANG-09 UP	Billy Childish	1982 Cassetes [sic]	1988
HANG-10 UP	Billy Childish & Sexton Ming	Plump Prizes & Little Gems	1987
HANG-11 UP	The Milkshakes	Live from Chatham	1988
HANG-12 UP	Billy Childish & Sexton Ming	Ypres 1917 Overture (Verdun Ossuary)	1988
HANG-13 UP	Billy Childish	I Remember…	1988
HANG-14 UP	Rocking Richard & Whistling Vic	Tea and Baccy	1988
HANG-15 UP	various	The Medway Poets The Medway Poets The Medway Poets were founded in Medway, North Kent in 1979. They were an English punk based poetry performance group and later formed the core of the first Stuckists Art Group. The members were Miriam Carney, Billy Childish, Rob Earl, Bill Lewis, Sexton Ming and Charles Thomson...	1988
HANG-16 UP	Billy Childish	Poems of Laughter & Violence	1988
HANG-17 UP	various	Medway Powerhouse Vol.3	1988
HANG-18 UP	Sexton Ming	Six More Miles to the Graveyard	1988
HANG-19 UP	Jack Ketch & The Crowmen	Brimfull of Hate	1988
HANG-20 UP	The Delmonas	The Delmonas 5	1988
HANG-21 UP	Wild Billy Childish and the Blackhands	Play Capt'n Calypso's Hoodoo Party	1988
HANG-22 UP	various	A Hangman Sampler	1988
HANG-23 UP	The Prisoners The Prisoners The Prisoners were a band who formed in 1980 in Rochester, Kent, England. Their 1960s garage sound made them a regular live fixture in London's underground "psychedelic revival" and "mod revival" scene of the early 1980s. They often toured with The Milkshakes, who included Billy Childish on guitar...	Rare and Unissued	1988
HANG-24 UP	The Milkshakes	After School Session	1988	reissue of 1983 release
HANG-25 UP	various	Medway Powerhouse Vol.4	1989
HANG-26 UP	Thee Mighty Caesars	Wiseblood	1989	reissue of 1987 release
HANG-27 UP	The Pop Rivets	Original First Album!!!	1989
HANG-28 UP	The Delmonas	The Delmonas	1989
HANG-29 UP	Thee Headcoats Thee Headcoats Thee Headcoats 1989 - 2000, was a band comprising Billy Childish, Bruce Brand, and Johnny Johnson. Childish was featured on guitar and vocals, Brand on drums and backing vocals, and Johnson on bass. The band was the most prolific of Childish's many musical projects, releasing fourteen full...	Headcoats Down!	1989
HANG-30 UP	Billy Childish and the Natural Born Lovers	Long Legged Baby	1989
HANG-31 UP	Link Wray Link Wray Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr was an American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer....	Swan Demos '64
HANG-32 UP	Thee Headcoats	The Kids Are All Square—This is Hip!	1990
HANG-33 UP	Link Wray	Jack the Ripper
HANG-34 UP	— — —	— — —		unused catalog #
HANG-35 UP	The Pop Rivets	Live in Germany '79	1990
HANG-36 UP	Sexton Ming	Birds With Teeth
HANG-37 UP	Billy Childish	50 Albums Great	1991
HANG-38 UP	Thee Headcoatees Thee Headcoatees Thee Headcoatees is a band that was formed in the Medway Garage Scene in north Kent, England in 1991. The members of this all girl band were Holly Golightly, Kyra LaRubia, Ludella Black and "Bongo" Debbie Green.-Formation:...	Girlsville	1991
HANG-39 UP	The Kravin' "A"s	Krave On!	1991
HANG-40 UP	Thee Headcoats	W.O.A.H! Bo in thee Garage	1991	Bo Diddley Bo Diddley Ellas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor... tribute
HANG-41 UP	The Discords	Second to No-one
HANG-42 UP	Downliners Sect Downliners Sect The Downliners Sect were a British rhythm and blues band of the beat boom era, formed in 1963 when the existing Downliners band split up.Stylistically, they were similar to The Yardbirds, The Pretty Things and the Rolling Stones, playing basic R&B on their first album The Sect...	The Birth of Suave
HANG-43 UP	The Masonics	The Masonics
HANG-44 UP	The Singing Loins	Songs for the Organ
HANG-45 UP	The Squares	Trapped in a Square
HANG-46 UP	Thee Mighty Caesars	Caesars Remains	1993	compilation
HANG-47 UP	The Mummies The Mummies The Mummies are an American garage punk band from San Mateo, California formed in 1988.-Showmanship:Originally hailing from San Mateo, California, the band was formed by Trent Ruane , Maz Kattuah , Larry Winther and Russell Quan . They became a key part of San Francisco's burgeoning garage punk...	Fuck C.D.'s It's the Mummies!
HANG-48 UP	The Mystreated	Ten Boss Cuts
HANG-49 UP	Dave Russell	Bricolage
HANG-50 UP	Wreckless Eric Wreckless Eric Wreckless Eric is an English rock and roll/new wave singer-songwriter, best known for his 1977 single " Whole Wide World" on Stiff Records. More than two decades after its release, the song was included in Mojo magazine’s list of the best punk rock singles of all time... & Eduadro Leal de la Gala	The Donovan of Trash
HANG-51 UP	The Singing Loins	Steak and Gravy
HANG-52 UP	The Squares	Curse of the Squares
HANG-53 UP	Billy Childish and the Blackhands	Live in the Netherlands	1993
HANG-54 UP	Thee Headcoats	Live at the Dirty Water Club	2001

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