Circa Records

Short-lived late 70s Cork label with an address in the Bradbury Buildings on Washington Street in Cork City. Releases are a mix of rock and folk.

On Sunday 18 March 1980 the label organised a live showcase of local rock bands at Cork City Hall. This show was recorded and presumably live tapes still exist somewhere (anyone know any more about that???) The lineup included: Hot Guitars, The Kidz, Small Change, Orpheus, The Banditz, The Constant Reminders and Nun Attax.

More info about this label needed please.

Singles
CIRCA 101	Hot Guitars - Nasty People / Route 66 7" [1978]
CIR 002	Sean O'Shea - The Bold Christy Ring / Beautiful City 7" [1979] (PS)
Albums
CIRCA 001	Sean O'Se - The Banks Of My Own Lovely Lee LP [1978?] Originally issued on EMI Talisman (STAL 8008) in 1975 tracks: Banks Of My Own Lovely Lee / Eileen O'Grady / Bantry Bay / Manchester Rambler / Carrigdown / The Holy Ground // The Irish Rover / Beautiful City / The Boys Of Fairhill / The Rose Of Tralee / Slievenamon / The National Anthem (Amhrán Na Bhfiann).
CIRCA 002	Tony Garrigan - Well Here I Am in Paddy's Land LP [1978?] folk balladeer, accordionist.
CIRCA 003	Na Fili with Sean O'Se & Peadar Mercier - One Day For Recreation LP [1978] Originally issued on EMI Talisman (STAL 1009) in 1970. Peadar Mercier was a Chieftain until he retired in 1974.
CIRCA 004	Salonika - s/t LP [1978]
CIRCA 005	Sean O'Se - The West's Awake LP [19??] tracks: The Maid Of Fife / The West's Awake / The Queen Of Connemara / Babaro ; Kitty Lie Over / The Lee // Tá Na Lá / The Bold Christy Ring / The Bells Of Shandon / Danny Boy / O'Donnell Abú / Farewell To Galway / A Nation Once Again.
CIRCA 006	The Jolly Beggarmen - The Very Best of Irish Rebel Songs Vol. One LP [19??] Originally released as STAL 8010 by EMI Talisman. The Jolly Beggarmen appear courtest of ID Records. tracks: One The One Road / Irish Soldier Boy / Shall My Soul Pass Through Old Ireland / Wrap the Green Flag Around Me / Dying Rebel / Boys of the Old Brigade / Lonely Woods of Upton / God Save Ireland // Johnsons Motor Car / Broad Black Brimmer / James Connolly / Four Green Fields / Foggy Dew / Sea Around US / Rifles of the IRA.
CIRCA 007	The Jolly Beggarmen - The Very Best of Irish Rebel Songs Vol. Two LP [19??] Originally released as STAL 8011 (?) by EMI Talisman. The Jolly Beggarmen appear courtest of ID Records. tracks: A Nation Once Again / Take Down The Flag / Kevin Barry / Sean South / Patriot Game / Boys of Killmichael / 3rd West Cork Brigade / Black and Tans // Rising of the Moon / Boys from the County Cork / West Awake / 20 Men from Dublin Town / Banna Strand / Bodenstown Churchyard / Highland Paddy.
LL 301	Small Change - Live at Sir Henry's LP [1979] Circa Records Live & Limited Series. 300 numbered copies. See the Small Change entry for full details.
UNRELEASED	Southpaw - s/t LP Unreleased late 1970s LP.