Jeff Barrett

In the early 1980s, Jeff Barrett was a record shop manager and live music promoter living in Plymouth. He put on early gigs by The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, The Loft and The Pastels, all bands signed to Creation Records, and Creation founder Alan McGee soon offered Barrett a job at the label.

Jeff became Creation’s first full-time employee, in the summer of 1985, and worked there until 1988, when he left to set up Capersville press agency. Capersville represented several Creation bands, as well as representing Factory Records and all their artists (including Happy Mondays and New Order), The KLF and Inspiral Carpets. At the same time, Barrett was putting on gigs and club nights in London and set up two short-lived record labels - Head and Sub-Aqua - who released records by Loop, East Village and Laugh. Then in 1990, in partnership with his former record shop boss Mike Chadwick, Barrett set up Heavenly Recordings

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