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About Gut Recordings

In 1988 Radio and Television plugger Guy Holmes quit his job as Head of Promotions at Island Records, and along with his assistant Caroline Lewis, he set up the Gut Reactions promotions company.

The company's primary ambition was to become Britain's number 1 plugging team, but things changed when Holmes by chance heard a tune whilst travelling home from a night on the tiles.

The song was 'I'm Too Sexy' and the band was Right Said Fred. Holmes struck a deal with the band but despite his confidence that the song was a hit, he could not find a label to put it out.

His solution was to release the song independently on his own newly formed label. His solution was to release the song independently on his own newly formed label.

Right Said Fred went on to sell 6 million singles and 5 million albums around the world - and Guy found himself firmly in the record business.

Gut's History

The Gut Group has evolved from that record label and now encompasses 7 labels, covering a range of genres from pop through to rock / indie and dance.

Gut Recordings was formally introduced in 1996, and is one of the UK's leading independent record labels having had multi-million selling albums and singles from artists like Tom Jones, Right Said Fred, Space, Aswad, Tears for Fears, Sparks, Sikth, The Wildhearts, Chungking and Plantlife - to name but a few.