Twenty five years ago today, we released our very first record, a 12” single by Graham Sutton from Bark Psychosis, under the name Boymerang. The last track on that release was called ‘Rules’, and featured the refrain “There are no rules”. It’s a mantra we’ve stuck with ever since, making our lives significantly more complicated, but also a lot more interesting.

We’re not going to go big on #Leaf25, but we are marking the occasion with some nice things for those people that have stuck with us. From today, we are making a limited edition Leaf 25 T-shirt available via Bandcamp, along with a very limited Leaf 25 letterpress print, designed and printed by our friends at Split in Leeds, who have handled most of the design work for Leaf over the last few years.

In addition, for a period of 25 hours, we are offering a 25% discount on just about everything in the Leaf catalogue that is available through Bandcamp.

Use the code: rules25

There are a few exceptions, but if there’s something you’d like that you can’t find, please send an email to contact@theleaflabel.com and we’ll see what we can dig up for you.

Thanks to all the artists, managers, distributors, manufacturers, agents, promo people, DJs and writers that we’ve worked with over the years, and above all, to those of you that support us by paying for music and coming to see our artists play live. It means a lot to us and we wouldn’t still be here with you.

Tony Morley, January 30th 2020