20/09/2025
This week, after ten beautiful years, we finally parted with our favourite soul boys Releasing two incredible studio LPs, a live album, a plethora of singles and killer remix project with along the way, the last decade with these crazy talented songwriters, musicians and not to mention magnificent humans, has been an utter joy.
When Adam and I signed them in 2014, it was an exciting and perhaps daunting moment. A band that had been with a major record label, had chart hits, had Idris Elba in their videos etc looking to go a bit deeper and lean into their soul, jazz and blues roots wasn’t to be taken lightly.
The debut album, Favourite Worry, recorded on the Isle Of Wight with producer Paul Butler (The Bees/Michael Kiwanuka) was replete with songs we knew would be future classics, and sure enough the love was felt throughout their fanbase and beyond as the album finished 2015 as one of BBC 6 Music’s Albums of the Year (special shout to for his support).
The Milk are an outstanding live band, and we wanted to covey that fact to more people, and so the Live At The Union Chapel album was released the following year. One of many unforgettable gigs, and in a very special venue.
Our second studio album together, Cages, dropped in Jan 2020 and despite having the perfect title for the upcoming Covid era, the fact that the band were no longer able to tour hit us all very hard. This was somewhat alleviated with some very memorable on-line performances from home, and the resulting Caged EP.
As a swan song, my erstwhile partner in Wah Wah 45s, Scrimshire, set about remixing the whole Cages LP. To this day I believe that this album contains some of the finest remixes we’ve ever released on the imprint.
So last night we said goodbye with another unforgettable show, celebrating their amazing new self released LP, Borderlands. Although it’s not really goodbye as I’ll keep going back to see this amazing band and there will be more late nights of music and laughter to come.
Rick, Dan, Mitch and Luke. Thank you. Wah Wah love you x
