Junior Boy's Own


Junior Boy's Own is an English record label specialising in electronic dance music. Underworld, The Chemical Brothers and X-Press 2 are its most successful artists.

History

The origins of the label go back to 1987, when a group of young clubbers started a fanzine named Boys Own, inspired by a similar fanzine for Liverpool football fans called The End, edited by future singer of The Farm, Peter Hooton. The Boys Own crew, consisting of Terry Farley, Andrew Weatherall, Cymon Eckel, Pete Heller and Steven Hall, knew fellow Chelsea fan Paul Oakenfold and through their connections with him they were invited to the early acid house club nights that Oakenfold was holding in London. As the crew began to become more involved in clubbing, the fanzine began to cover the nascent scene, becoming its key chronicler and influencing a wave of similar fanzines across the country. In 1988 they began hosting their own outdoor raves, and in 1990 they formed Boy's Own Recordings. In 1992 Farley and Hall began Junior Recordings Ltd., which started to use the name Junior Boy's Own and is also shortened to JBO. Weatherall left to start his label and band Sabres of Paradise.

Artists

Selected discography