The band set up the label after releasing their first EP on the Crass Records label, which both taught them the skills necessary to run such a project and provided them with the seed cash. In turn, the band not only used the label to release their own material, but gave opportunities to like minded punk bands to put out records, including The Subhumans, who in a similar fashion set up the Bluurg label. Others that released records on Spiderleg included The System, Amebix and Antisect.
The first record to be put out was a re-recording of older material made when the band were known as The Epileptics (they changed the name to Flux Of Pink Indians following complaints from the British Epilepsy Association). This was an EP entitled "1970s Have Been Made In Hong Kong" which had originally been released by the small Bishops Stortford based label Stortbeat. However the band fell into dispute with Stortbeat when the label allegedly re-released the single without paying the band owed royalties. The re-recording is also notable for featuring Penny Rimbaud of Crass on drums as the original Epileptics drummer was not available.
Derek Birkett, bass player of Flux Of Pink Indians, later set up the highly successful One Little Indian label, whose releases have included material by Bjork, The Shamen, Skunk Anansie and Chumbawamba amongst others.
Releases
List of record labels