Genre Alternative Location Limerick Founded 2003 | Country of origin Ireland Official website outonalimbrecords.com | |
Founders Richard Bourke, Albert Twomey Albums We Are the Way Forward, It's Never Night, Dramamine Profiles | ||
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Out On A Limb Records is an independent record label, based in Limerick, Ireland. It is one of the longest running independent labels in Ireland. The label was set up in the summer of 2003 with the release of Is it OK to be loud, Jesus?, the debut album from local band giveamanakick. It was set up by Albert Twomey (also see Plugd Records) and Richard Bourke, both of whom were involved in the Aspersion Music Collective, a non-profit gig promoter in Limerick. They were joined by Ciarán Ryan a couple of months after that, and the three have worked on the label ever since. In November 2009 it was announced that Twomey would no long be involved in the label. Ryan has admitted that himself and Bourke considered ending the label on a few occasions. In 2013 Winding's album 'I am not the Crow' was nominated for the Choice Music Prize, becoming the first band on the label to receive this nomination.
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Since then, the label has put out numerous releases on various formats - CD, vinyl, cassette, and digital from the following acts: Crayonsmith, giveamanakick, Hooray For Humans, Rest (band), Ten Past Seven, Waiting Room, windings, Berkeley, Owensie, Joggging, C!ties, Elk, Vertigo Smyth, Hidden Highways, Guilty Optics, Peter Delaney, Women's Christmas, and Shardborne.
giveamanakick were the first act added to the label in 2003. Later that year, the label added Rest. 2004 saw Waiting Room, Ten Past Seven and windings formally join the label. The next additions were Crayonsmith and Hooray For Humans (2007), Owensie (2010), Hidden Highways (2011), Jogging and Elk (2012), Peter Delaney (2013), Women's Christmas (2014), and Shardborne (2015).