A while back I was talking to jonder about his epic Rough Trade series and I made the foolish suggestion of doing a Small Wonder series. Well, the first 10 Small 7” releases (not including the Teeny and Weeny 12” singles) have finally made it into some sort of compilation that follows the labels releases from small one through to SMALL 10. Now follows an overview from Wiki.
Small Wonder Records was a British independent record label owned and managed by Pete and Mari Stennett, which specialised in releasing records by punk rock and post-punk bands. It operated out of a record shop of the same name at 162 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, London. Artists to have released on the label include Bauhaus, Crass, The Cure, The Cravats, Patrik Fitzgerald, Puncture, Cockney Rejects, The Carpettes, Poison Girls and Angelic Upstarts. The shop and labels logo - as featured on its famous paper bags - was of an Edwardian/Victorian family in their finest clothes, the mother was white while the father and vicar were black. The baby in the picture was mixed race and according to Pete Stennett provided him with the inspiration for the name 'Small Wonder'.