# Go! Discs > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Go!_Discs > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Go!_Discs.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_Discs > Source revision: 1316769279 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) British record label This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies and organizations. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Go! Discs" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Go! Discs" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Record label Go! Discs Parent company Independent (1983–1996, 1999–present) Universal Music Group (1996–present; back catalogue) Founded 1983; 1999 (relaunch) Founder Andy Macdonald, Lesley Symons Defunct 1996 Status Dormant Distributors Chrysalis Records (1983–1996) Mercury Records UK (back catalogue, 1996–2013) Virgin EMI Records (back catalogue, 2013–2020) EMI Records (back catalogue, 2020–present) Genre Various Country of origin United Kingdom Location Hammersmith, London **Go! Discs** was a London-based record label, launched in 1983 from offices in Wendell Road, [Shepherd's Bush](/source/Shepherd's_Bush), by Andy Macdonald and Lesley Symons. The pair founded the label after Macdonald left his job as press officer at [Stiff Records](/source/Stiff_Records), and Symons provided the seed funding. The first signing to the label was [Billy Bragg](/source/Billy_Bragg) and early releases also came from Sheffield band The Box and Hull band [The Housemartins](/source/The_Housemartins). Records by the latter's spin-off group [The Beautiful South](/source/The_Beautiful_South) were subsequently issued. Key staff contributors, following a move to [Hammersmith](/source/Hammersmith), included comedian [Phill Jupitus](/source/Phill_Jupitus) and [Cathal Smyth](/source/Chas_Smash) (Madness' Chas Smash). **Go! Beat** Records was launched as a subsidiary for artists like [Beats International](/source/Beats_International), [Gabrielle](/source/Gabrielle_(singer)) and [Portishead](/source/Portishead_(band)). In 1992, [Paul Weller](/source/Paul_Weller) signed for the main Go! Discs label. In 1996, Macdonald resigned when [PolyGram](/source/PolyGram) acquired a majority stake in the label,[1] which folded not too long afterward. However, Go! Discs' dance offshoot Go! Beat Records continued and became a unit in the PolyGram group. In 1999, Go! Discs was revived, but it is now in dormancy along with Go! Beat. The Go! Discs catalogue now operates under [EMI Records](/source/EMI_Records), a division of the [Universal Music Group](/source/Universal_Music_Group). It was rebranded from [Virgin EMI Records](/source/Virgin_EMI_Records) in June 2020. ## Andy Macdonald and Independiente After the purchase of Go! Discs by PolyGram, Andy Macdonald started [Independiente Records](/source/Independiente_Records) and continued his involvement with the recording career of [Paul Weller](/source/Paul_Weller). Independiente is also the home of [Travis](/source/Travis_(band)), [Roddy Frame](/source/Roddy_Frame), [Embrace](/source/Embrace_(English_band)), [So Solid Crew](/source/So_Solid_Crew), [Howling Bells](/source/Howling_Bells) and Malian desert blues band [Tinariwen](/source/Tinariwen). ## Artists - Anna - Apollo Landing - [The Bathers](/source/The_Bathers_(band)) - The Bic - [The Beautiful South](/source/The_Beautiful_South) - [Billy Bragg](/source/Billy_Bragg) - [The Blue Ox Babes](/source/The_Blue_Ox_Babes) - [Boothill Foot Tappers](/source/Boothill_Foot_Tappers) - The Butterfield 8 - [David Holmes](/source/David_Holmes_(musician)) - [Drugstore](/source/Drugstore_(band)) - Father Father - [The Frank and Walters](/source/The_Frank_and_Walters) - [The Housemartins](/source/The_Housemartins) - [The La's](/source/The_La's) - [Madness](/source/Madness_(band)) - [More Fire Crew](/source/More_Fire_Crew) ([Lethal Bizzle](/source/Lethal_Bizzle), Ozzie B & Neeko) - [Paul Weller](/source/Paul_Weller_(singer)) - [Platinum 45](/source/More_Fire_Crew) - [Portishead](/source/Portishead_(band)) - The Southernaires - [The Stairs](/source/The_Stairs) - [Trashcan Sinatras](/source/Trashcan_Sinatras) ## See also - [List of record labels](/source/List_of_record_labels) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Ingham, Tim (27 February 2020). ["'Essentially, music is an emotional language that connects people.'"](https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/andy-macdonald-independiente-essentially-music-is-an-emotional-language-that-connects-people/). *[Music Business Worldwide](/source/Music_Business_Worldwide)*. Retrieved 24 January 2025. Having sold Go! Discs to PolyGram in 1996, Macdonald resigned from the label to start another venture, Independiente, where he would enjoy the biggest successes of his career. Authority control databases International VIAF Other MusicBrainz label --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Go! Discs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_Discs) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_Discs?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.