Digby Pearson (born 1962), also known as "Dig", is an English musician, producer and businessman. He is the founder of independent record labelEarache Records.
Biography
Born and raised in Nottingham,[1] he was introduced to extreme music whilst playing in local bands, one of which being DIYpunk band Scum Dribblurzzz, who never released any records or accepted payment for playing shows.
In the mid-1980s, he founded Earache, and gradually began releasing records. He says the first year of business, 1986, was spent doing very little. He claims he initially set up the label as a way to continue to claim social security benefits without having to go to the unemployment office every two weeks, saying, "I didn't fancy doing that". He started releasing Flexi discs, and then moved on to putting out a split between Concrete Sox and Heresy, and an album by The Accüsed. In 1987 he compiled two sessions by different line-ups of the band Napalm Death, and released them as the album Scum. The album proved popular, peaking at No. 7 on the UK Indie Chart and receiving airplay on John Peel's show on BBC Radio 1.[2] Both Napalm Death and Heresy are considered to be pioneering grindcore bands.
