Awkward Silence Recordings

Awkward Silence Recordings was an independent record label based in Kent in the south-east of England, which was started in 1999.

The label was set up to release limited edition split singles/EPs and focussed on featuring an artist who had released music on other labels on one side and then an unknown often quite similar sounding artist on the other.

Awkward Silence was always run as a hobby-label with releases appearing as and when the time felt right, often with long gaps between discs and then with two or more new singles appearing in shops on the same day! The label was also a firm favourite with John Peel, who played tracks regularly on his BBC Radio 1 shows.

The artwork on all releases has always followed the same layout with the main image usually being submitted by one of the musical artists on the release, with everything printed in monochrome colours. All releases up to number 18 were on 7" vinyl and then the switch was made to limited run 3" CDrs housed in cute mini m-lock CD cases in 2005.

Other releases:
awkward 09 - Awkward Silence Recordings mouse mat. A Christmas present to the label from within the Awkward Silence family in 2001. Limited edition of 1 only.
awkward 13 - Limited edition Awkward Silence Recordings T-shirt. It included the computer logo on the front breast with the label name and website address on the back, and each one was finished off with 'is t-shirt' on the lower front left-hand side. Each shirt came with its own catalogue number ID tag. Edition of 100 in total.
awkward 22 was due to be a split release for Bronnt Industries Kapital / Ecce, but it never quite happened.