Woodworm Records

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Woodworm Records was a record label set up in 1979 to enable Fairport Convention to release "Farewell, Farewell". This was a farewell concert in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, (an event that was to grow into the Cropredy Festival) because the band had decided to break up after Dave Swarbrick was advised to save his hearing by not playing amplified music.

As there wasn’t a record label willing to release the concert, bass guitarist Dave Pegg and his wife Christine formed their own label to release the album.

Woodworm Records soon grew and released albums by Fairport and, later, by other artists like Dave Swarbrick. During 2004, the Peggs were divorced: one result was that the studio was sold and the record label put on hold. Members of Fairport Convention decided to form a new label, Matty Grooves Records, to take over Woodworm Records's role.