quote popkiss: the life and afterlife of sarah recordsHere’s my Sarah Records story: in high school I received a lot of awesome mixtapes from the witchbabies and some of them would contain the loveliest songs that would shape my musical taste for the years to come. One of these was Heavenly’s “P.U.N.K. Girl” and another was The Field Mice’s “Sensitive” and I loved both of these songs to pieces but as cassette tapes disappeared from my world and were replaced by CDs and iTunes playlists, I couldn’t for the life of me find these songs again, until much later when I discovered that both groups belonged to the best record label in the world, Sarah Records. I listened to as many Sarah bands as I could and have yet to find one I didn’t love, and since then I’ve wanted to know everything I could about it all, but it’s just so hard, even with Wiki and Google.
So – thank you Michael White for this amazing, amazing, book with lots and lots of background info about the label and its bands (I didn’t know that Harvey Williams was in almost all of my very favourite Sarah bands!) and the interviews with Clare and Matt and the bits about fanzines and how music was supposed to make people HAPPY and EXCITED about things. This book made me feel like a kid again while reading it, I loved it so much.
* originally posted on my wordpress on July 24, 2016 and in my superfairyanimal zine
book details
Bloomsbury Academic, November 20th 2015, 9781628922189 non-fiction, music
