Tony Curr, left, and Gordon Macrae have started a record company and are looking for local talent. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0645457)

CALLING all musicians – two local lads have launched a record label which is already attracting international attention and they are looking for home-grown talent.

Bailiwick Records, the brainchild of school friends and music enthusiasts Tony Curr and Gordon Macrae, both 21, has already attracted the attention of rising bands from the UK and further afield.

‘It has moved really fast. We have been in discussions with musicians from the UK and from Guernsey but also a band from New York and one from Canada,’ said Mr Macrae.

He said Bailiwick Records was born when the friends were going to gigs while studying in London. ‘We used to go out to see so much music but often the bands were nothing special, then someone like Gossamer Albatross would come along and blow us away,’ he said.

They decided they wanted to promote the kind of musicians who appealed to them that strayed from the norm, so they decided to take a chance and approach Gossamer Albatross, a band from Hereford.