It all started five years ago when I was 14. I had some friends who ran their own record labels which inspired me, namely Mike from Rebound Records (now arms.reach.recordings) and Ryan from Redneck Records. Ryan's label had put out a tape compilation called "Too Much Free Time". It was a fun DiY comp, but I felt I could one up him. I put out a call, rounded up the bands, and the first Nancy Boy Records release was born: How To Master Gung-Fu. Now I only needed to come up with a name for the label. A fun fact is that the original name was Antagonist Records. I used that right up until the tape came out, when I learned there was already an Antagonist Records. I got that one from my old friend Emma, who liked to poke fun at how I love to get into arguments and be obnoxious. Sometimes people ask me why the label is called Nancy Boy Records. There really isn't any good reason. At the time me and my friend Mike Ferrin were using the insults "chump" and "nancy boy" all the time. Nancy Boy Records just sort of worked. Nowadays I like the name even better because I don't know a bigger nancy boy than myself.

So, How To Master Gung-Fu came out better than I figured it would, and I had a lot of fun with it, so I decided to try my hand at some 7"s. Under the guidance of Mike Gibson from Rebound, I released my first two actual records when I was 16. They were both splits that included two of my bands at the time: 82nd Floor and Enlist. Fun Fact #2 is that Mike from Uncle NO, the band that appears on the split with 82nd Floor, is now in Run Devil Run, who are on Victory Records. Also in Run Devil Run is Zack, formerly of Missing Image, who appear on How To Master Gung-Fu. These first two 7"s were both learning experiences for me. The biggest problem was that both of my bands had broken up by the time the records came out. That made it practically impossible to sell the records around here, because neither band had even played a show yet. I know, I know, big mistakes. But you've gotta learn somewhere along the line, right? I think they're both good records, and I continue to sell them, but once they're gone there's no chance they'll be repressed.

After those two 7"s came out, I made the mistake of going to a Violent Society/Casualties show. It was there that I was introduced to the chaos that is Kids United. They threatened me for months, and eventually plans for the three way split CD were under way. The split was originally supposed to be Kids United, Contra, and the Autotrophs. When Contra broke up, Kids United brought in their friends McCarthy Commission, and the rest they say is history. For the record though, this CD would have never came out if Charles United hadn't continually threatened to pound sand straight up my ass. Since then local ValuRockers the Low Budgets have signed onto NBR for a 7", which explains why the web page looks so good. Joe, the man behind the keys in the Low Budgets, is now our official web master, and he gives me an excuse to refer to NBR as "us" instead of "me".

Many, many more releases are on the way. I have big dreams for Nancy Boy Records, so don't expect this little label to slow down anytime soon. With each release we get bigger, and I get better at running a label. It's sort of like a RPG. I just keep getting more experience points... maybe eventually I'll be able to award myself a 20 in charisma.