Dog Meat Records

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2017}} '''Dog Meat Records''' was a [[record label]] releasing music from bands in the [[Australia|Australian]] independent [[rock music]] scene in the 1990s. It released music from such artists as [[Hoss (band)|Hoss]], [[The Philisteins]],<ref name="NLA Set"/> [[Powder Monkeys]], [[Splatterheads]] and [[Peter Wells (guitarist)#Early solo work to Blues Hangover .281990.E2.80.931996.29|Blues Hangover]],<ref name="Blues H">{{cite web | url = http://www.blues.org.au/albums/roadrunner.html | title = Roadrunner | last = Smith | first = Craig | work = Australian Blues | accessdate = 19 May 2017 | url-status = bot: unknown | archiveurl = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20030703140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10014/20030704-0000/www.blues.org.au/albums/roadrunner.html | archivedate = 3 July 2003 | df = dmy-all }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> including some non-Australian musical acts.

Dog Meat was a continuation of an earlier label, '''Grown Up Wrong!''', which released records, including some by local Melbourne bands in the mid 1980s. Both of these labels were entirely creatively controlled by Dave Laing, from Melbourne.<ref name="Patrick">{{cite web | url = http://messandnoise.com/features/2068987.html | archive-url = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20150922012500/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/151589/20150922-1125/messandnoise.com/features/2068987.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 22 September 2015 | title = Do the Pop: Year Zero | last = Patrick | date = 30 January 2008 | work = Mess+Noise | accessdate = 19 May 2017 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u5SfAAAAMAAJ |title=Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music, 1977-1991 |last=Walker |first=Clinton |date=1996 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |isbn=9780732908836 |pages=242 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://doublej.net.au/news/features/story-of-gods-my-pal-an-enduring-australian-underground-classic |title=The story of GOD's 'My Pal', an enduring Australian underground classic |date=2014-11-24 |website=Double J |language=en |access-date=2017-12-18}}</ref> Also, both labels were named after songs, Grown Up Wrong after a Rolling Stones song, and Dog Meat after a Flamin' Groovies song.

In 1993 the label issued a various artists compilation album, ''Set It on Fire''.<ref name="NLA Set">{{Citation | title = Set It on Fire | publication-date = 1993 | publisher = Dog Meat Records | url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/28838055 | accessdate=19 May 2017 }}</ref>

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==See also==

* [[List of record labels]]

[[Category:Defunct record labels of Australia]] [[Category:Rock record labels]] [[Category:Australian record labels]]