Vinyl records

Freur vinyl records

2 albums with 50 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Freur is the name of the second band (following the art school collaboration, The Screen Gemz) of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, who went on to found the successful electronic act Underworld. The band was formed in the early 1980s in Cardiff, Wales by Hyde, Smith and Alfie Thomas. It originally had only a graphic 'squiggle' for a name. In 1983, after recruiting John Warwicker and drummer Bryn Borrows (formerly of the Fabulous Poodles), they got a recording contract with CBS Records and were met by the label's insistence on a pronounceable name. The compromise was that the squiggle be pronounced "Freur". Their first and only hit single (number 59 in the UK Singles Chart), was "Doot Doot" (1983).