Round Records Records is the new record label from Ginger Wildheart - a home for Hey! Hello!, Mutation, live albums and DVDs from The Wildhearts and more. It’s arguably Ginger’s most ambitious project to date; moving from stand-alone individual releases to a fully-fledged record label. PledgeMusic is partnering with Ginger and Round Records Records for fans to pre-order new releases and access a host of extra and exclusive offers.

Ginger and PledgeMusic have history. In August 2011, Ginger launched his Triple Album Project via Pledgemusic. The pitch was to record a 30-song triple album and the campaign met with immediate success, hitting 100% of the funding target within six hours of launching. The resulting album released in 2012 in single and triple album format was a huge success for Ginger. Subsequent projects with PledgeMusic have delivered equally stunning results; the last one being a book entitled Songs & Words, which featured archive photos and the stories behind Ginger's songs as only Ginger could tell them.

To start things, the Round Records Records launch includes the following;

- Hey! Hello - Hey! Hello! Too! album (released 3rd June 2016)
- The Wildhearts - PHUQ Live (released 1st July 2016)
- Ginger Wildheart - Solo Album Boxset (released 5th August 2016)
- Mutation - Mutation III album (released 2nd September 2016)

All the details and more here.

“Round Records allows me to further explore what can be achieved using the direct-to-fan formula. My last project was a fan club, something that I had always enjoyed as a kid. When I realised that a lot of people didn't even know what a fan club was the logical next step was to introduce a record label whose logo was as iconic and the music it releases.

“Growing up with Stiff, Sub Pop and Def Jam I always loved the idea of a 'fair' record company, but I've had precious little personal experience in record companies being anything more than a smokescreen run by corporate suits with very little understanding let alone love for the music. This time around I'm the boss, and this boss is all about the music.”

On April 1st The Ginger Wildheart Show debuts at the O2 Forum in London, with an impressive supporting cast. Along with The Ginger Wildheart Band, four special guests have just been confirmed for this planned annual event.

As Ginger explains, “The Ginger Wildheart Show is something that we intend to carry on in the future. I love the idea of replicating the old cabaret evenings with five different bands. The maiden voyage of this show, April 1st, will feature my current favorite bands on the circuit today”.

“The super-charged Ginger Wildheart Band will be heading the proceedings, along with very welcome turns from Dirt Box Disco, Hey! Hello!, Scaramanga Six and Tropical contact.

“I have fallen in love with Dirt Box Disco recently, Scaramanga Six are simply one of the greatest bands that Britain has ever produced and Tropical Contact come fresh from a ludicrously successful Pledge Campaign where they scored over 800% of their goal.

Hey! Hello! are, of course, my new band and this will be our first show on the year. It's a stunning show that you should cancel any and all previous arrangements to attend. Please don't regret missing this. You deserve it.”

Tickets available at Ticketmaster.

The Year Of The Fanclub tracklisting:

“Down The Dip”
“Honour” featuring Courtney Love
“El Mundo (Slow Fatigue)”
“The Last Day Of Summer”
“Only Henry Rollins Can Save Us Now”
“The Pendine Incident”
“Do You?”
“If You Find Yourself In London Town”
“Toxins & Tea”
“No One Smiled At Me Today”
“Ostracide”
“Don’t Lose Your Tail, Girl”

“Don't Lose Your Tail, Girl”: