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Category Archives: St Christopher

Orchids & St Christopher, Hollywood Studios, Glasgow, 1989

Sarah Records Posted on June 26, 2017 by MattJune 26, 2017

A poster from September 1989, for a gig at Hollywood Studios in Glasgow, which almost certainly wasn’t as glamorous a venue as it sounds – certainly not a patch on Glasgow Studios in Hollywood. From the date, the idea might have been to promote The Orchids’ What Will We Do Next? and St Christopher’s All Of A Tremble singles… or at least to get them to qualify for a play-off with Partick Thistle.

Posted in Images Posters, Orchids, St Christopher | Tagged Orchids, St Christopher

Random Flexiness, Kill Kill Kill (NME, 1986)

Sarah Records Posted on September 4, 2015 by MattSeptember 4, 2015

Random Flexiness

Posted in Before Sarah, Poppyheads, Press Are You Scared To Get Happy?, Press Fanzine culture, Press Sha-la-la, St Christopher | Tagged Are You Scared To Get Happy, Poppyheads, Sha-la-la, St Christopher

Sarah Night at Mr Bojangles, Nottingham, October 1989 (flyer)

Sarah Records Posted on June 12, 2015 by MattJune 12, 2015

Sarah Night at Mr Bojangles, NottinghamI know nothing about Mr Bojangles in Nottingham, though I’m guessing from this flyer that it was on Lower Parliament Street. As you may detect, this is actually a double-sided flyer – indiepop was nothing if not thrifty – and the other side is for a Bob gig at the Dial in Derby. I know nothing about that either, though I have been to the Dial, with The Field Mice. They made us curry. (The Dial did, not The Field Mice – that would be weird.)

Posted in Another Sunny Day, Field Mice, Images Posters, St Christopher | Tagged Another Sunny Day, Field Mice, St Christopher

St Christopher, NME On piece (Simon Williams)

Sarah Records Posted on May 19, 2015 by MattMay 20, 2015

St Christopher NME On piece

Posted in Press St Christopher, St Christopher | Tagged St Christopher

Un Festival Sarah, Les Cahiers du Cinema advert, January 1990

Sarah Records Posted on April 1, 2015 by MattApril 1, 2015

Un Festival Sarah, Cahiers du Cinema adAn advert for a concert at the New Morning in Paris – our first Sarah Night in France. It’s actually the back page of Les Cahiers du Cinema, not because that was our target audience, but because the promoter had always wanted to take out an ad in Les Cahiers du Cinema – he wasn’t really an indie kid (though I do have a lovely memory of him playing air guitar to Caveman during The Orchids’ soundcheck). It obviously worked, as 700 people turned up (or maybe that was the pieces in Libération and Les Inrockuptibles…) to witness Chris from The Orchids surprising everyone, possibly including himself, by playing drums on Sensitive.

Click here for Bob Stanley’s review in Melody Maker.

Posted in Another Sunny Day, Field Mice, Images Other Artefacts, Orchids, St Christopher | Tagged Another Sunny Day, Field Mice, Orchids, St Christopher

Four bands at the Fleece & Firkin, Bristol, April 1990

Sarah Records Posted on March 11, 2015 by MattMarch 11, 2015

Sarah night at the Fleece & Firkin, Bristol, April 1990Bit of a legendary gig, this, partly because of our own mad decision to try to have a 4-band line-up on a Sunday night when licensing laws meant that everything had to be done by 10.30pm. It was only Brighter’s second-ever gig, the Field Mice played as a duo of Bobby and Harvey as Michael couldn’t make it, and Action Painting! (who were in the audience) got into a fight with the Sea Urchins who carried on playing even after the lights had gone up… pretty good entertainment for £2.50, I think you’ll agree. Happy days.

Click here for the review in local listings magazine Venue.

Posted in Brighter, Field Mice, Images Posters, Sea Urchins, St Christopher | Tagged Brighter, Field Mice, Sea Urchins, St Christopher
Sarah Records Posted on March 7, 2015 by MattMarch 7, 2015

St Christopher

l-r: Mark, Ian, Glenn, Keith

Posted in Images St Christopher, St Christopher | Tagged St Christopher

The Field Mice, Sensitive; St Christopher, You Deserve More Than A Maybe (Simon Williams, NME, 1989)

Sarah Records Posted on February 9, 2015 by MattFebruary 9, 2015

NME review of The Field Mice, Sensitive, and St Christopher, You Deserve More Than A Maybe

Posted in Field Mice, Press Field Mice, Press St Christopher, St Christopher | Tagged Field Mice, St Christopher

The Sea Urchins & St Christopher @ The Fleece & Firkin, Bristol (Mike Gartside, Venue, April 1990)

Sarah Records Posted on February 2, 2015 by MattFebruary 2, 2015

Sea Urchins & St Christopher @ The Fleece & Firkin

Posted in Press Sea Urchins, Press St Christopher, Sea Urchins, St Christopher | Tagged Sea Urchins, St Christopher

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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