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The Life and Afterlife of Sarah Records
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From 1987 to 1995, Bristol, England's Sarah Records was a modest underground success and, for the most part, a critical laughingstock in its native country-sneeringly dismissed as the sad, final repository for a fringe style of music (variously referred to as “indie-pop,” “C86,” “cutie” and “twee”) whose moment had passed. Yet now, more than 20 years after its founders symbolically “destroyed” it, Sarah is among the most passionately fetishized record labels of all time. Its rare releases command hundreds of dollars, devotees around the world hungrily seek out any information they can find about its poorly documented history, and young musicians-some of them not yet born when Sarah shut down-claim its bands (such as Blueboy, the Field Mice, Heavenly, and the Wake) as major influences.
Featuring dozens of exclusive interviews with the music-makers, producers, writers and assorted eyewitnesses who played a part in Sarah's eight-year odyssey, Popkiss: The Life and Afterlife of Sarah Records is the first authorised biography of an unlikely cult legend.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Songs of Innocence and Inexperience: The Roots of Sarah
Chapter Two: “Let's Just Communicate!”: The 1980s Fanzine Underground
Chapter Three: “How Much Do One Thousand Flexidiscs Weigh?”: When Matt Met Clare
Chapter Four: “Come to My World”: The Sea Urchins and the Beginning of Sarah
Chapter Five: “A Constant Source of Bemusement and Wonder”: The Orchids
Chapter Six: “Another Fucking Harvey Band”: The Ubiquitous Harvey Williams
Chapter Seven: “Sarah Records Unequivocally Supports a Fully Integrated Light-Rail Rapid-Transit System for the Greater Bristol Area”: Expressions of Civic Pride
Chapter Eight: “A Diary of Sorts”: The Field Mice, Northern Picture Library, and the Quicksilver Bobby Wratten
Chapter Nine: “I Sometimes Feel So Lost”: Brighter
Chapter Ten: Safe Harbour: The Wake and The Hit Parade
Chapter Eleven: “I Am Telling You Because You Are Far Away”: Internationalism and Sarah's Written Communiqués
Chapter Twelve: “Atta Girl”: Heavenly, Riot Grrrl and Feminism
Chapter Thirteen: Sadness is Unisex”: Blueboy and “the Best Album” Sarah Released
Chapter Fourteen: An Economy of Ambition: Sarah's Short-Term Visitors
Chapter Fifteen: “We Had an Outsider's Perspective”: Sarah's Foreign Visitors
Chapter Sixteen: “A Day for Destroying Things…”: The End of Sarah
Chapter Seventeen: The Afterlife of Sarah
The Sarah Discography
Index