About MoFi Records

MoFi record label is a DIY indie project co-founded by Montrose-based musician William Codona and Neil McLeod, proprietor of Mo’ Fidelity record shop. The ethos is to put the artist and their music first and provide a vehicle for bands and solo artists from across Scotland to get physical copies of their recorded work pressed and distributed in independent record shops. 
The label is run on a not-for-profit basis (and hopefully a not-for-loss basis) with funds accrued by the label being ploughed back in to fund future releases. 
We believe there has never been a richer, more diverse selection of great Scottish independent music and fertile ground for even more getting their voices heard and their songs out there. We aim to emulate in some small way the models successfully adopted by labels like Lost Map and Last Night From Glasgow. 
A ‘Scottish Renaissance’ label
It is particularly appropriate that we are based in Montrose, where a century ago the writer Christopher Grieve adopted the pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid while working at the Montrose Review and surrounded by artists and writers such as William Lamb, Violet Jacob and Edwin and Willa Muir launched ‘The Scottish Renaissance’. 
They reclaimed the authentic Scottish cultural identity from the tartan clad caricature of the music hall and the rose-tinted sentimentalism of the ’kailyard’ in song and literature. 
The collective voice of this group echoes subtly but directly down generations of Scottish artists from Alasdair Gray to Arab Strap. It is therefore serendipitous that, in our own, minor and slightly pretentious manner we aim to carry the torch MacDiarmid and Co lit in the town in the 1920s into the 2020s.