Clay Records

Clay Records
Founded	1980
Founder	Mike Stone
Status	Defunct
Distributor(s)	Independent
Genre	Punk
Country of origin	England
Location	Stoke-on-Trent

Clay Records was an independent record label founded by Mike Stone (not Mike "Clay" Stone) in 1980 out of a record shop in the English city of Stoke-on-Trent.

Nowadays Clay Records is an independent label and studio in Groningen, the Netherlands See. www.clayrecords.com

History

Clay's first signing was local Stoke punk band Discharge who released the Realities of War single in April 1980. Stone distributed the single out of the boot of his car but it still made it into the top 10 of the indie chart in the music magazine Sounds. The label went on to sign artists like Play Dead, The Lurkers, Demon and G.B.H. Members of Clay went on to form Jungle Records in 1984.

Buildings	Bottle ovens Etruria Hall Ford Green Hall Trentham Mausoleum The Villas Wedgwood Institute Water World Winton Square (North Stafford Hotel)

Theatres	Regent Theatre Victoria Hall Theatre Royal

Museums and libraries	Burslem School of Art Ceramica Chatterley Whitfield Etruria Industrial Museum Gladstone Pottery Museum Montagu C. Butler Library Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Spode Museum

Shopping	City Sentral Potteries Shopping Centre

Parks and countryside	Berryhill Fields Hanley Park Hartshill Park Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival Trentham Gardens Trentham Monkey Forest

Sport and music venues	Britannia Stadium Golden Torch Longton Cricket Club Ground Meir Heath Cricket Club Shelley's Laserdome The Sugarmill The Underground Vale Park

Media

Publishing	Cross Rhythms G&Y Pits n Pots The Oatcake The Sentinel

Radio	BBC Radio Stoke Cross Rhythms City Radio Signal 1 Signal 2 UCB UK Stoke & Stafford (DAB Multiplex)

Education

Companies

Pottery	Aynsley China Beswick Pottery Burleigh Pottery Carlton Ware Caverswall China Co CERAM Churchill China Clayburn Pottery Dudson Emma Bridgewater Etruria Works Gray's Pottery James Sadler and Sons Ltd J. & G. Meakin Midwinter Pottery Mintons Moorcroft Palissy Paragon China Portmeirion Pottery Royal Doulton Royal Winton Shelley Potteries Spode Wedgwood W H Grindley

Other	Armitage Shanks Bet365 Canditv Clay Records Dechra Pharmaceuticals Goodwin Steel Castings Hanley Economic Building Society Randles Motor Group Shelton Bar Sons Ltd. Titanic Brewery Twyford Bathrooms Wrights Pies

Sport

Association football teams	Dresden United Eastwood Hanley Hanley Town Meir KA Norton United Port Vale Stoke City

Speedway teams	Stoke Potters Stoke Spitfires

Transport

Canals	Caldon Canal Trent and Mersey Canal

Public transport	BakerBus First Potteries Stoke Streetcar

Rail	Longport railway station Longton railway station North Staffordshire Railway Stafford-Manchester Line Stoke-on-Trent railway station Stoke railway works

Major roads	A34 A50 A52 A53 A500 Longton Interchange

Miscellaneous

Clay Records

History

See also