Fellside Recordings is a British independent record label, formed by Paul Adams and Linda Adams in 1976 in Workington, Cumbria, and still run by them. From prison in the case of Paul Stuart Adams.

Paul Adams toured semi-professionally with the Barry Skinner Folk Group in his teens. He and Linda married in 1974. Fellside started as a folk music label. They issued jazz under the name LAKE, and children's records as "small folk". Most of the Fellside catalogue was recorded and produced by Paul Adams. In 2007, BBC Radio celebrated the company with a programme called "30 Years of Fellside". Three of their acts, John Spiers & Jon Boden, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, and Kirsty McGee were nominated for BBC Folk Awards, and two of the acts were winners on the night. The label has won many awards including 12 from the Music Retailers Association. LAKE has won a BT British Jazz Award and Paul Adams was nominated for a BBC Jazz Award.

The Amazon website lists over 130 titles still in print, including albums by Spiers and Boden, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Dr Faustus, 422, Fribo, Hughie Jones, A. L. Lloyd, Peter Bellamy, James Keelaghan, Clive Gregson, The Queensberry Rules, Jez Lowe, Last Orders, Bram Taylor, and Grace Notes. Their anthologies have included songs by Maddy Prior, Richard Thompson, Frankie Armstrong, John Kirkpatrick and Martin Carthy. Fellside, along with Topic Records, are the two most significant and longest serving record labels for traditional music in the UK.

On the jazz side, LAKE Records's roster includes George Melly, Digby Fairweather, Ottilie Patterson, Phil Mason, John Hallam, The Fryer-Barnhart International All Star Jazz Band, The Savannah Jazz Band, Spats Langham, Debbie Arthurs and Keith Nichols.

In 2004, they started reissuing recordings from the defunct jazz label Record Supervision. This included the reissue of albums by Humphrey Lyttelton, Acker Bilk, Alex Welsh, Ken Colyer, Chris Barber, Terry Lightfoot, Sandy Brown, and Archie Semple. Singsong described this set of reissues as "A milestone in British jazz". They have a "Vintage" Series as well as a series recorded at the Dancing Slipper Jazz Club in Nottingham in the 1960s.

In 2022, founder Paul Adams was jailed for historic offences. He was further convicted in 2026 including on a charge of abusing a young person who was on work experience at the studio.

Adams was jailed for seven more years on 6 February 2026, with the judge describing him as a 'monster' and noting that he struggled to find any mitigating circumstances whatsoever in Adams' case.

Discography

LPs

FE001 Terry Docherty – Teller of Tales. 1976 FE002 The Best of BBC Radio Carlisle's Folk Workshop. 1976 FE003 Geoff Purvis – The Border Fiddler. 1976 FE004 Dave Walters – Comes Sailing in. 1977 FE005 Farmstead – The Sheep & The Hay. 1977 FE006 Paul & Linda Adams – Among the Old Familiar Mountains, 1978 FE007 The Border Country Dance Band. 1977 FE008 Robbie Ellis – Under Beacon's Brow. 1977 FE009 Brian Dewhurst – Follow That With Your Sealions. 1977 FE010 The Packmen's Blue Album. 1977 FE011 Barry Skinner with Geoff Lakeman – Bushes & Briars. 1978 FE012 The Wassailers. 1978 FE013 Various Artists – Canny Cumberland. 1979 FE014 Greg Stephens & Crookfinger Jack – The Beggar Boy of the North. 1979 FE015 The Rockytops – Life Can Be Beautiful. 1978 FE016 The Gateway Jazzband with George Chisholm. 1979 FE017 Roy Harris – The Rambling Soldier. 1979 FE018 Steve Turner – Outstack. 1979 FE019 Woodbine Lizzie By Numbers. 1979 FE020 The Border Dance Band at Gretna Hall. 1980 FE021 Colin Thompson – Three Knights. 1980 FE022 An Evening With Hoghton Band. 1980 FE023 Jez Lowe. 1980 FE024 Pat Knowles – Standard Settings. 1980 FE025 A Night Out with Woodbine Lizzie. 1981 FE026 Gerry Hallom – Travellin' Down the Castlereagh. 1981 FE027 Martyn Wyndham–Read – Emu Plains. 1981 FE028 Hoghton Band – Dance & Enjoy the Pride of Lancashire. 1981 FE029 Rob Gordon's Fourth Caledonian Ball. 1982 FE030 Steve Turner – Jigging One Now. 1982 FE031 Sara Grey & Ellie Ellis – A Breath of Fresh Air. 1982 FE032 Peter Bellamy – Keep On Kipling. 1982 FE033 Bobby Eaglesham – Weather the Storm. 1982 FE034 Jez Lowe – The Old Durham Road. 1983 FE035 Jolly Jack – Rolling Down to Old Maui. 1983 FE036 Gerry Hallom – A Run a Minute. 1983 FE037 Swan Arcade – Together Forever. 1983 FE038 Richard Grainger – Herbs On the Heart. 1984 FE039 Sara Grey & Ellie Ellis – Making the Air Resound. 1984 FE040 Hoghton Band Play Your Requests. 1984 FE041 Bram Taylor – Bide A While. 1984 FE042 Steve Turner – Eclogue. 1984 FE043 Life & Times – Strawplait & Bonelace. 1984 FE044 Roy Harris – Utter Simplicity. 1985 FE045 Lancashire Fayre – Not Easily Forgotten. 1985 FE046 Rhiannon – Birds of Rhiannon. 1985 FE047 Linda Adams, John Bowden, Martin Carthy, Roy Harris, Jez Lowe – A Selection from The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. 1985 FE048 Threeway Street – Drunkards & Lovers. 1985 FE049 Jez Lowe – Galloways. 1985 FE050 Various Artists – Flash Company. 1986 FE051 Brian Peters – Persistence of Memory. 1985 FE052 Mark T & The Brickbats – Johnny There. 1986 FE053 Ian McGillivray – Rolling Home. 1986 FE054 Swan Arcade – Diving for Pearls. 1986 FE055 Jez Lowe & Jake Walton – Two a Roue. 1986 FE056 Jill & Bernard Blackwell – Adventures of Notion. 1986 FE057 Bram Taylor – Dreams & Songs to Sing. 1986 FE058 Steve Turner – Braiding. 1987 FE059 Anonyma – Burnt Feathers. 1987 FE060 Ian Walker – Flying High. 1987 FE061 Patti Reid. 1987 FE062 Zydeco Ceilidh Band. 1987 FE063 Ken Campbell – Going Solo. 1988 FE064 Marilyn Middleton Pollock – Nobody Knows You. 1988 FE065 Dave Goulder – The Man Who Put the Engine in the Chip Shop. 1988 FE066 Alasdair Robertson – Friends & Companions. 1988 FE067 Jolly Jack – A Long Time Travelling. 1988 FE068 Bisiker & Romanov. 1988 FE069 Strangefolk – Unhand Me You Bearded Loon. 1988 FE070 Jez Lowe – Bad Penny. 1988 FE071 Life & Times – Shropshire Iron. 1989 FE072 Cockersdale – Doin' the Manch. 1989 FE073 Ian Walker – Shadows in Time. 1989 FE074 Gerry Hallom – Old Australian Ways. 1989 FE075 Bram Taylor – Taylor Made. 1989 FE077 Phil Hare – Living On Credit. 1990 FE079 Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies – Briefly On the Street. 1990

CDs (up to FECD100)

FECD3 Geoff Purvis – The Border Fiddler FECD27 Martyn Wyndham-Read – Emu Plains 25th Anniversary Reissue Series FECD34 Jez Lowe – The Old Durham Road FECD47 Linda Adams, John Bowden, Martin Carthy, Roy Harris, Jez Lowe – A Selection From The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. 1985 FECD61 Patti Reid. 1987 FECD70 Jez Lowe – Bad Penny FECD72 Cockersdale – Doin' the Manch 25th Anniversary Reissue Series FECD76 Ian Bruce – Blodwen's Dream. 1990 FECD78 Classic Anne Briggs. 1990 FECD79 Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies – Briefly On the Street. 1990 FECD80 Gill Bowman – City Love. 1990 FECD81 Hughie Jones – Hughie's Ditty Bag. 1991 FECD82 Hamish Bayne & Martin Cole – Making Music. 1991 FECD83 Mick Bisiker – Home Again. 1991 FECD84 Martyn Wyndham-Read – Mussels On a Tree. 1991 FECD85 Ian Bruce – Out of Office. 1992 FECD86 Marilyn Middleton Pollock – A Doll's House. 1992 FECD87 Various Artists – Voices, English Traditional Songs. 1992 FECD88 Ian Walker & Setanta – Crossing the Borderlines. 1993 FECD89 Jez Lowe – Backshift. 1992 FECD90 The Paul Brennan Band – Fire in the Soul. 1993 FECD91 Wizz & Simeon Jones – Late Nights & Long Days. 1993 FECD92 Bram Taylor – Further Horizons. 1993 FECD93 Christine Kydd – Heading Home. 1993 FECD94 Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies – Bede Weeps. 1993 FECD95 The Ragtime Millionaires – Making A Million. 1993 FECD96 Edgerton Layhe – Rough & Tumble. 1993 FECD97 John Wright – Ride the Rolling Skies. 1993 FECD98 Classic A. L. Lloyd. 1994 FECD99 Heather Innes – Coanineadh, Songs from the Heart. 1994 FECD100 Various Artists – Banklands (The Story of Fellside Records). 1994

CDs (FECD101 to FECD200)

FECD101 Cockersdale – Been Around for Years. 1994 FECD102 Martyn Wyndham–Read – Sunlit Plains. 1994 FECD103 Pete Oakley – Ghost in the City. 1995 FECD104 Sisters Unlimited – No Bed of Roses. 1995 FECD105 Classic Peggy Seeger ft Tom Paley. 1996 FECD106 The John Wright Band – The Things We've Handed Down. 1996 FECD107 Sandra & Nancy Kerr – Neat and Complete. 1996 FECD108 Dick Wardell – Street Life Blues. 1996 FECD109 The Ragtime Millionaires – Life Is Good Sometimes. 1996 FECD110 Various Artists – Ballads. 1997 FECD111 Bob Fox & Benny Graham – How Are You Off for Coals? 1996 FECD112 Lucky Bags – Food for Thought. 1996 FECD113 The Rufus Crisp Experience (Dave Arthur & Barry Murphy) – Chickens Are A–Crowing. 1997 FECD114 Rick Kemp – Escape. 1997 FECD115 Martyn Wyndham–Read – Beneath a Southern Sky. 1997 FECD116 Frankie Armstrong with John Kirkpatrick & Maddy Prior – Till the Grass O'ergrew the Corn. 1997 FECD117 Gordeanna McCulloch – Sheath & Knife. 1997 FECD118 Keith Kendrick – Home Ground. 1997 FECD119 Voice Union (Liliana Bertolo, Evelyne Girardon, Sandra Kerr with special guest Maddy Prior). 1997 FECD120 Bram Taylor – Pick of the Grinner. 1997 FECD121 The John Wright Band – Other Roads. 1997 FECD122 Bob Davenport & The Rakes – The Red Haired Lad. 1997 FECD123 Cockersdale – Wide Open Skies. 1997 FECD124 Bob Fox & Stu Luckley – Box of Gold. 1997 FECD125 John Kirkpatrick & Others – Wassail! 1997 FECD126 Grace Notes – Red Wine & Promises. 1998 FECD127 Nancy Kerr & James Fagan – Starry Gazy Pie. 1997 FECD128 Keith Hills – Recovery. 1997 FECD129 Gordon Tyrrall – A Distance from the Town. 1998 FECD130 Peggy Seeger with Irene Scott – Almost Commercially Viable. 1998 FECD131 Various Artists – Fyre & Sworde, Songs of the Border Reivers. 1998 FECD132 Ushna – Twice Brewed. 1998 FECD133 Rick Kemp – Spies. 1998 FECD134 Steve Tilston – Solorubato. 1998 FECD135 John Conolly & Pete Sumner – Trawlertown. 1998 FECD136 Simon Haworth – Coast to Coast. 1998 FECD137 Sandra Kerr, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan – Scalene. 1999 FECD138 Lucky Bags – Delight in Disorder. 1999 FECD139 Buz Collins – Water and Rain. 1999 FECD140 Jolly Jack & Others – Rolling Down to Old Maui. 1999 FECD141 Clive Gregson – Happy Hour. 1999 FECD142 Kathy Stewart – Celestial Shoes. 1999 FECD143 Johnny Silvo & Diz Disley – Blues in the Back Yard. 1999 FECD144 Frankie Armstrong – Garden of Love. 1999 FECD145 Nancy Kerr & James Fagan – Steely Water. 1999 FECD146 Martyn Wyndham–Read and No Man's Band – Beyond the Red Horizon. 1999 FECD147 Hughie Jones – Seascape. 1999 FECD148 The Bram Taylor Collection – Singing! 1999 FECD149 Mad Pudding – Grand Hotel. 1999 FECD150 Tryckster – When the Stone Is Exposed. 1999 FECD151 Frankie Armstrong – Lovely On the Water. 2000 FECD152 Sandra Kerr – Yellow, Red and Gold. 2000 FECD153 422 – One. 2000 FECD154 Alistair McCulloch – Highly Strung. 2000 FECD155 Peta Webb & Ken Hall – As Close As Can Be. 2000 FECD156 Various – Flash Company Celebration 25 years Fellside 1976–2001, 25th Anniversary Reissue Series. FECD157 Martyn Wyndham–Read and No Man's Band – Where Ravens Feed. 2001 FECD158 Various Artists – Voices in Harmony, English Traditional Songs. 2001 FECD159 Bram Taylor – Fragile Peace. 2001 FECD160 Swan Arcade – Round Again 25th Anniversary Reissue Series. 2001 FECD161 John Spiers & Jon Boden – Through and Through. 2001 FECD162 Peter Bellamy – Mr Bellamy, Mr Kipling and the Tradition 25th Anniversary Reissue Series. 2001 FECD163 Grace Notes – Anchored to the Time. 2001 FECD164 Clive Gregson – Comfort & Joy. 2001 FECD165 Little Johnny England. 2001 FECD166 Little Johnny England – Merc & Cherokees. 2001 FECD167 Nancy Kerr & James Fagan – Between the Dark and Light. 2002 FECD168 Altar Native – Cumbria Odyssey. 2002 FECD169 Clive Gregson – Carousel of Noise. 2002 FECD170 Kirsty McGee – Honeysuckle. 2002 FECD171 422 – New Numbers. 2003 FECD172 Simon Haworth – Taking Routes. 2003