Irregular Records

Irregular Records
Irregular Records
Founded	1985
Founder	Robb Johnson
Genre	Folk
Country of origin	UK
Official website	http://www.irregularrecords.co.uk/

Last updated September 10, 2024

Irregular Records is a British independent record label specialising in folk music, which was established in 1985 by the singer Robb Johnson.^[1] In addition to Johnson's own recordings the label has also issued albums by artists such as Barb Jungr, Des de Moor, Maggie Holland and Russell Churney.^[2]

Releases to date

In the label's history there have been over a hundred releases to date.^[3]

Year	Cat.no.	Title	Artist	Format
1985	IRR001	In Amongst The Rain	Robb Johnson	LP
1985	IRR002	Leaking Secrets	The Ministry of Humour	cassette
1986	IRR003	And All the Other Ones You Never Even Get to Hear About	The Ministry of Humour	cassette
1987	IRR004	Songs for the New Jerusalem	Robb Johnson	cassette
1988	IRR005	Skewed, Slewed, Stewed & Awkward	Robb Johnson	LP
	IRR006	?	?	?
	IRR007	The Herald of Free Enterprise	Robb Johnson	7" single
?	IRR008	?	?	?
1989	IRR009	Small Town World	Robb Johnson	LP
1990	IRR010	Wasted Years	Robb Johnson	7" single
1991	IRR011	Living in the Rubbish	Robb Johnson & Pip Collings	12" single
1991	IRR012	Overnight	Robb Johnson & Pip Collings	CD
1992	IRR013	Tourists & Casualties	The Johnson Collings Band	cassette
1993	IRR014	Heart's Desire	Robb Johnson & Pip Collings	CD/cassette
1993	IRR015	Head, Heart & Hand	Steve Hunt	cassette
1994	IRR016	1-2-3	The Johnson Collings Band	cassette
1994	IRR017	The Lack Of Jolly Ploughboy	Robb Johnson & Pip Collings	CD
1995	IRR018	Romantic or Ridiculous	Tony Warren	cassette
	IRR019	Royalty and Empire	Steve Hunt Saboteurs	cassette
	IRR020	Saturday Afternoon Red Army	Robb Johnson & the Gentlemen of the Terraces	CD EP
	IRR021	Lavender Blues	Robb Johnson	CD EP
	IRR022	The Soundhole '95	Various artists	cassette
	IRR023	Interesting Times	Robb Johnson	CD
1996	IRR024	No Surrender	Graham Larkbey & the Robb Johnson Band	cassette
	IRR025	The Night Café	Robb Johnson	CD
	IRR026	Hell's Kitchen	Robb Johnson Roots Band	CD
1997	IRR027	Overnight	Robb Johnson	CD
1997	IRR028	Ugly Town	Robb Johnson	cassette
1998	IRR029	Invisible People	Robb Johnson	CD
	IRR030	Gentle Men	Roy Bailey, Vera Coomans, Robb Johnson, Koen De Cauter and the Golden Serenaders	double CD
	IRR031	Tiger Tracks	Millan	CD
	IRR032	Yeah Yeah Yeah	Robb Johnson Band	CD
	IRR033	Ne Me Quitte Pas/Brel Songs By…	Various artists	CD
1999	IRR034	Coppers and Brass	Alan Burton and Steve Hunt	CD EP
	IRR035	Getting There	Maggie Holland	CD
	IRR036	The Big Wheel	Robb Johnson	CD
	IRR037	The Big Wheel - The Second XI and Alternative Versions	Robb Johnson	cassette
	IRR038	Water of Europe	Des de Moor	CD
	IRR039	Bare	Barb Jungr	CD
2000	IRR040	Skin Deep	Boka Halat	CD
	IRR041	You're All Weird	The Astronauts	CD
	IRR042	Margaret Thatcher: My Part in her Downfall	Robb Johnson	CD
2001	IRR043	21st Century Blues	Robb Johnson with Miranda Sykes & Saskia Tomkins	CD
2001	IRR044	Article 14	Various artists (including Chumbawamba, Tom Robinson and Fun-Da-Mental)	CD
2002	IRR045	The Triumph of Hope Over Experience	Robb Johnson	CD
	IRR046	9 x 2: An Album of Contemporary English Chanson	Various artists	CD
	IRR047	Maximum Respect	Robb Johnson	CD
2003	IRR048	Clockwork Music	Robb Johnson	CD
2004	IRR049	Scarlet Stories	Caroline Nin	CD
	IRR050	Circle of Light	Maggie Holland	CD
	IRR051	Darkness and Disgrace	Des de Moor and Russell Churney	CD
	IRR052	Don't Look Down	Miranda Sykes	CD
	IRR053	On the Boulevard des Hommes	Monique	CD
	IRR054	Tony Blair: My Part in his Downfall	Robb Johnson	double CD
	IRR055	Ordinary Heroes	George Papavgeris	CD
	IRR056	Fast Lane Roogalator	Fast Lane Roogalator	CD
2005	IRR057	A Beginner's Guide	Robb Johnson	CD
	IRR058	Miranda Sykes Band	Miranda Sykes Band	CD
	IRR059	Metro	Robb Johnson	CD
2006	IRR060	Mr Jeays	Phil Jeays	CD
	IRR061	And For My Next Trick	George Papavgeris	CD
	IRR062	Elvis Lives Here	Swill and The Swaggerband	CD
	IRR063	Saturday Night at The Fire Station	Robb Johnson & The Irregulars	CD
	IRR064	Paris Lite	Monique	CD
	IRR065	Picture Postcards	Tracey Curtis	CD
2007	IRR066	All That Way for This	Robb Johnson & The Irregulars	CD
2008	IRR067	The Commons	David Rovics	CD
2008	IRR068	Love & Death & Politics	Robb Johnson & The Irregulars	CD
2009	IRR069	Devil on the Wind	The Men They Couldn't Hang	CD
	IRR070	We Can Make the World Stop	Alun Parry	CD
	IRR071	Margaret Thatcher - My Part in Her Downfall (Deluxe)	Robb Johnson & The Irregulars (each disc and the accompanying slipcase has a separate catalogue number)	4xCD box set
	IRR072
	IRR073
	IRR074
	IRR075
	IRR076	The Ghost of Love	Robb Johnson & The Irregulars	CD
2010	IRR077	Man Walks Into a Pub	Robb Johnson	CD
2011	IRR078	Causes and Cures	Al Baker & the Dole Queue	CD
	IRR079	More to be Revealed	Mike Reinstein	CD
	IRR080	Some Recent Protest Songs	Robb Johnson	CD
	IRR081	Spitfire Bridge	Wob	CD
	IRR082	Once Upon a Time	Robb Johnson & The Irregulars	CD
	IRRV082V	Once Upon a Time	Robb Johnson & The Irregulars	Vinyl LP
2012	IRR083	Happily Ever After	Robb Johnson & The Irregulars	CD
2012	IRRV083V	Happily Ever After	Robb Johnson & The Irregulars	Vinyl LP
2013	IRR084	Thoughts in the Dark	Tracy Curtis	CD
	IRR085	Bluesman	John B. Spencer	CD
	IRR086	Bring Down the Moon	Robb Johnson & The Irregulars	CD
	IRR087	West Pier Serenade	Robb Johnson	CD
	IRR088	Gentle Men	Robb Johnson and others	Double CD (digipack)
	IRR089	Gentle Men	Robb Johnson and others	Double CD with hardback book
2014	IRR090	Sweet Jane / Bay of Angels	Robb Johnson	Vinyl single
	IRR091	Us & Them	Robb Johnson	CD
	IRR092	Outsider	John Forrester	CD
	IRR093	Make Believe / When My Grandfather Played Football	Robb Johnson	Vinyl single
2015	IRR094	Here Goes Nothing	Robb Johnson & The Irregulars	CD
	IRR094V	Here Goes Nothing	Robb Johnson & The Irregulars	Vinyl LP
	IRR095	Cheap and Cheerful / The Top of This Wheel	Robb Johnson & The Irregulars	Vinyl single
	IRR096	A Long March Home	Mike Reinstein	CD
	IRR097	Position of Jupiter	Roger Stevens	CD
	IRR098B	Live @ The Albert	Robb Johnson & The Irregulars	Demo, download only from USA
	IRR099	Gentle Men, a Solo Performance	Robb Johnson	Live CD
2016	IRR100	My Best Regards	Robb Johnson	CD
	IRR101	Time and Tide	Wob	CD
	IRR102	Don't Close the Bar/Even Steve McQueen	Robb Johnson	Vinyl single
	IRR103	The Former Me	John Forrester	CD
	IRR104	Take the Slow Train	Philip Jeays	CD
	IRR2016V	JC4PM For Me	Robb Johnson and the Corbynistas	Vinyl single
2017	IRR105V	The Beautiful Dark	Robb Johnson	10" vinyl
	IRR107	We Are Now Approaching Hassocks	Roger Stevens	CD
	IRR108	Songs From the Last Seven Years	Robb Johnson	CD
2018	IRR109	Restless	John Forrester	CD
	IRR110	Acts of Love	Mike Reinstein	CD
	IRR111	Angelina Supercop	Philip Jeays	CD
	IRR223	Ordinary Giants	Robb Johnson	Triple CD
2020	IRR112V	Eurotopia	Robb Johnson	Vinyl album
2020	IRR113	Eurotopia	Robb Johnson	CD

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References

↑ "Official website". Archived from the original on 4 July 2007. Retrieved 8 August 2007.
↑ "Catalogue". Archived from the original on 4 July 2007. Retrieved 8 August 2007.
↑ "Irregular discography". Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2010.

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