Popkiss : the life and afterlife of Sarah Records / Michael White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Michael (Michael Stuart), 1970- author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Popular Music.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sarah Records--History.

Sarah Records.

Sarah Records--Discography.

Sound recording industry--England--Bristol--History.

Sound recording industry.

Indie pop music--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Indie pop music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Songs of innocence and inexperience : the roots of Sarah

Let's just communicate! : the 1980s fanzine underground

How much do one thousand flexidiscs weigh? : when Matt met Clare

Come to my world : the Sea urchins and the beginning of Sarah

A constant source of bemusement and wonder : the Orchids

Another fucking Harvey band : the ubiquitous Harvey Williams

Sarah records unequivocally supports a fully integrated light-rail rapid-transit system for the greater Bristol area : expressions of civic pride

A diary of sorts : the Field mice, Northern picture library, and the quicksilver Bobby Wratten

I sometimes feel so lost : Brighter

Safe harbour : the wake and the hit parade

I am telling you because you are far away : internationalism and Sarah's written communiqués

Atta girl : Heavenly, riot grrrl and feminism

Sadness is unisex : Blueboy and the best album Sarah released

An economy of ambition : Sarah's short-term visitors

We had an outsider's perspective : Sarah's foreign visitors

A day for destroying things? : the end of Sarah

The afterlife of Sarah

The Sarah discography.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes discography and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 13, 2018).

ISBN:

9781628922233

1628922230

9781501314919

1501314912

9781628922202

1628922206

OCLC:

1201426686