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We're taking a closer look at some of our home grown record labels and the people behind them. Click above to hear Stuart Coupe chat about his label, Laughing Outlaw Records.

Laughing Outlaw Records is a Sydney based label and management company set up over a decade ago with more than 140 albums under its belt.

80 per cent of the label's releases are by Australian artists, but you will also find a multitude of genres sitting comfortably side by side including country, psyche pop, jazz, retrospectives, punk, post-punk, and French blues.

At the helm is Stuart Coupe, who, like the label, is hard to pigeon hole. Well known on the Australian music scene for his numerous incarnations as a journalist, author, promoter, the Australian publicist for The Clash and The Cramps and as a former manager of Paul Kelly and the Hoodoo Gurus.

Laughing Outlaw Records also run a book and record shop in the Sydney inner-west suburb of Lewisham which Coupe describes as a “hybrid of High Fidelity meets Black Books”.

It was a chance case of writer’s block at the end of 1998, that saw Coupe add label boss to his list of titles, after a friend asked for help checking a music contract during his rest from writing. The business, owned by Coupe and his wife Vicki, continues to be a labour of love for the pair, and a personal passion to spread the word about the records they fall in love with.

The current release and management roster includes:

• Perry Keyes
• L.J. Hill
• Bek-Jean Stewart
• Black Cab
• Dengue Fever
• Jason Walker
• Halfway
• Robyne Dunn

Find more information at Laughing Outlaw Records.

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• Perry Keyes
• L.J. Hill
• Jason Walker
• Robyne Dunn
• Dengue Fever
• Bek-Jean Stewart
• Black Cab
• Halfway

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