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Good Vibrations was a Belfast record label and store. Belfast ( is the capital city of Northern Ireland and the seat of government in Northern Ireland. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Founded by Terri Hooley in the early 1970’s, Good Vibrations started out in a small derelict building on Great Victoria Street, Belfast. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Terri’s main objective in starting the company was to introduce punk bands from Northern Ireland to the rest of the United Kingdom, as he did not believe Northern groups were given enough attention.

The label’s first recording was for a local band called Rudi, a single called “Big Time. Rudi was a Punk rock / Power pop band, formed in 1975 in East Belfast. ” Hooley would later sign groups such as Victim,The Shapes, Protex, The Outcasts, and The Undertones. The Undertones are a Northern Irish Punk rock / Power pop band formed in Derry in 1975 Although the Undertones were to become the most famous of all these bands, Hooley was unsure, at first, whether or not he should sign them.

“I wasn’t sure about them because nobody liked them. People crossed the road just to spit at Feargal Sharkey. Feargal Sharkey (born Sean Feargal Sharkey, 13 August 1958 Derry, Northern Ireland, UK) is a British Singer, who first found fame ”

Later, when the Undertones' Teenage Kicks came out, he “hustled it around every record company in London and they all hated it. " Teenage Kicks " is a 1978 song originally recorded by Northern Ireland Punk rock group The Undertones. I came back to Belfast and cried my eyes out. That night John Peel played it on the radio and said, ‘wasn’t that the most wonderful record you’ve heard in your life?’ and played it again. John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004 known professionally as John Peel, was an English Disc jockey, radio ”

Good Vibrations made sure that all its bands got signed onto major labels. The company also put on concerts around Northern Ireland, hiring hotel function rooms, church halls, youth clubs, and any other available ‘venues’. Good Vibrations hosted the first ever International Festival of Punk and New Wave at the Belfast Royal Ulster Hall over two nights in 1980 featuring almost the entire roster of the label's bands and other punk acts such as The Saints.

Many listeners were brought to Belfast by the Good Vibrations’ DIY independence and Terri’s persistent determination and desire to see local music recognised nationally. Despite growing popularity, though, Good Vibrations filed bankruptcy in 1982, just as the first wave of British punk had officially died. Bands that had gone to London, such as Protex and Rudi, went back to Terri – and Belfast. Hooley’s friends later got him a shop called Vintage Records, Co. just around the corner from Good Vibrations.

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  1. ^ http://www.vinylnet.co.uk/record-label-discographies.asp link
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