fencing flatworm is now closed for business

due to continuing problems with rob's health, and the general difficulty we are both having maintaining a reasonable work/life balance, it is with great sadness that we have to announce the closure of fencing flatworm and our tape label offshoot oTo. we are both enormously proud of what we have achieved over the last (nearly) five years and would like to thank the artists, punters, distributors, writers etc. that have made it such a pleasurable experience. the no-audience underground is a great thing to be involved in and we are especially happy to think we have encouraged others to slog their guts out for no reward in the same arena.

orders:

as of now, no new orders will be taken. orders received before this announcement will be honoured or refunded when we get around to it.

the catalogue:

if you are a label interested in taking on some/all of the back catalogue we can put you in touch with the artists. we have two outstanding releases planned which will now not be released: one by Jonathan Coleclough, one by a new group called Ancient Monsters. both are absolutely superb and have cover artwork sorted and agreed. if anyone wanted to take these on you wouldn't regret it.

artists:

if you are one of the ffr roster of artists - many apologies for having to do this but after a great deal of thought and discussion we have decided this is the best course of action. get in touch if you want masters returned or have other suggestions for what to do with your work now. should you want a copy of your ffr artwork and wish to go on producing your ffr release yourself then we don't have a problem with that.

demos:

obviously, no more demos are invited. those we already have will be passed on to other labels, returned, commented on or, if completely dreadful, used as bird scarers on rob's allotment. can't say fairer than that.

midwich:

rob will be continuing with his own musical project, just at a much slower pace.

If you have any other questions feel free to email either rob or sean and we'll do our best to answer them in a timely fashion.