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Tag Archives: Northern Picture Library

Orchids cheat death, watch Partick Thistle

Sarah Records Posted on February 13, 2016 by MattFebruary 13, 2016

Rock band crash scareIf you were one of those people who used to write and ask why bands on Sarah didn’t do more gigs, here’s a reminder from the (Scottish) Sun of what happened when The Orchids were due to drive 400-odd miles to London to promote Striving For The Lazy Perfection at the Garage in Highbury in the vague hope that someone from NME or Melody Maker might turn up and be drily dismissive. (The handwritten comment is by the band, by the way!)

PartickBut, on a more positive note, here’s the (Glasgow) Evening Times bringing news of what happened two weeks later, and also explaining why Striving For The Lazing Perfection is called what it is. Though I’m not entirely sure they’re right.

Footnote: we obviously didn’t find out about the Orchids’ crash till just before soundcheck, which didn’t give a lot of time to sort out adding anyone else to the bill. But then Harvey suggested he and Bobby did some Field Mice songs, given they were there anyway (Blueboy and Northern Picture Library had been due to support). So they did, including, as Clare says in the There And Back Again Lane booklet, three songs they never played live when the Field Mice were still going: Willow, An Earlier Autumn and A Wrong Turn and Raindrops, the last of those with Harvey on harmonica, which he never played on the record.

Posted in Blueboy, Field Mice, Harvey Williams, Images Other Artefacts, Northern Picture Library, Orchids | Tagged Blueboy, Field Mice, Harvey Williams, Northern Picture Library, Orchids

French tour leaflet, May 1994

Sarah Records Posted on June 1, 2015 by MattJune 1, 2015
French tour leaflet, May 1994

Click here for 4-page pdf

A typically whimsical French tour; we’d been assured that the gig at the Cafe de le Plage was a Paris showcase, despite no one in Paris having heard of the venue… not surprising, in retrospect, as it was in Maurepas, a small town 20 miles west with no station (it’s twinned with Waterlooville; say no more). The Orchids were supposed to headline, but singer James had broken his foot playing football – this only months after the London launch of Striving For The Lazy Perfection had had to be cancelled after their van fell off the M6 near Carlisle. But Harvey stepped in, and we seem to have given away free cassette copies of Epicurean, which sounds ridiculously generous. If you’ve always wondered why Blueboy’s Toulouse was called “Toulouse”, by the way, it’s because it was written outside Le Bikini in Toulouse.

Posted in Blueboy, Harvey Williams, Images Other Artefacts, Northern Picture Library, Orchids | Tagged Blueboy, Harvey Williams, Northern Picture Library, Orchids
Sarah Records Posted on February 16, 2015 by MattFebruary 16, 2015

Northern Picture Library

Mitcham Common, 1994
l-r: Anne Mari Davies, Mark Dobson, Bobby Wratten

Posted in Images Northern Picture Library, Northern Picture Library | Tagged Northern Picture Library

There And Back Again Lane (Victoria Segal, Melody Maker)

Sarah Records Posted on February 13, 2015 by MattFebruary 13, 2015

There And Back Again Lane reviewed in Melody Maker

Posted in Action Painting!, Field Mice, Harvest Ministers, Heavenly, Hit Parade, Northern Picture Library, Orchids, Press Action Painting, Press Field Mice, Press Harvest Ministers, Press Heavenly, Press Hit Parade, Press Northern Picture Library, Press Orchids, Press Sarah Compilations, Press Wake, Sarah 100, Wake | Tagged Action Painting!, Field Mice, Harvest Ministers, Heavenly, Hit Parade, Northern Picture Library, Orchids, Sarah 100, Wake

Sarah was a Bristol-based independent record label, active between November 1987 and August 1995. This site was launched in 2015 to archive photos, press, posters and other artefacts; it’s a work in progress.

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