15 years of Fierce Panda

The New Wave of New Wave was never really much cop. It was an early 1990s music press-concocted punk revival scene based around a handful of long-forgotten bands such as S*M*A*S*H and These Animal Men, and it predictably foundered as soon as Britpop came along - but not before giving birth to one of the most idiosyncratic and tenacious independent record labels.Fierce Panda was born in February 1994 when three then-NME journalists - Simon Williams, John Harris and Paul Moody - decided to release...

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