As we celebrate their tenth birthday, here are the seven best bands we’ve been introduced to by our favourite indie label, Transgressive Records<\/p>\n
This week marks the ten year anniversary of Transgressive Records: the record label that, for anyone who was a teenager in the early 00s, came to define the soundtrack to every first: our first show, kiss, week at Uni \u2013 you name it and Transgressive were behind it. Responsible for the success of bands like Bloc Party, the Noisettes, Mystery Jets, The Subways, they\u2019ve taken the old trope of indie labels being small and largely unsuccessful and turned it on its head, expanding in their ten-year lifespan into management, music publishing, and two smaller sub-labels, Jen Long\u2019s Kissability and Paradyse Records.<\/p>\n
To celebrate this landmark birthday we\u2019ve made a list of our 7 most loved acts on the Transgressive roster.<\/p>\n
Bloc Party<\/strong><\/p>\n Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack met at Reading Festival in 1999, and decided to form a band, finding the last two members of the group, Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong, via an advert in NME and an audition respectively. Their first album, Silent Alarm<\/em>, released in 2005, made massive waves \u2013 topping NME\u2019s albums of the year list and influencing countless bands that sprung up in the indie wake they left behind them.<\/p>\n Perhaps even more importantly they were the catalyst for the creation of Transgressive: the label\u2019s founders, Tim and Toby, met at a Bloc Party show, introduced by lead singer Kele. They went on to release the band\u2019s first single \u201cShe\u2019s Hearing Voices\u201d, the track that allowed them to break into the mainstream.<\/p>\n