Single Vision: Fierce Panda Records

THE NEW WAVE OF NEW WAVE was never really much cop. It was an early 1990s music press-concocted punk revival scene based around a handful of long-forgotten bands such as S*M*A*S*H and These Animal Men, and it predictably foundered as soon as Britpop came along – but not before giving birth to one of the most idiosyncratic and tenacious independent record labels.