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Category Archives: Feminism

Saint Etienne Kiss and Make Up review

Sarah Records Posted on August 11, 2015 by MattAugust 11, 2015

Let's Kiss and Make Up reviewAnd here’s the NME reviewing Saint Etienne’s cover of the Field Mice’s Let’s Kiss And Make Up. Some of you might be shocked to see the phrase “Incredibly girlie and irritating” appearing in a supposedly right-on, left-wing, politically correct music paper, but you have to bear in mind that it was absolutely fine to say things like that in 1990. No, really, it was – absolutely fine. That’s why so many people writing for the NME in 1990 still work in the media. Is it just me, by the way, or is the tone of this review vaguely patronising?

Posted in Feminism, Field Mice | Tagged Field Mice

Sarah Records Investment Portfolio

Sarah Records Posted on February 25, 2015 by MattNovember 2, 2017

Spiral Scratch articleIn 1988, Spiral Scratch – a sort of inept Record Collector (“for those who know the value of nothing but would still quite like to know its price in G/VG condition” – Oscar Wilde) – printed this bit of pro-Tory propaganda suggesting readers invest in Sarah, a label “run by Matt and his girlfriend Clare” (oh dear… not a good start…), because “even if you lose in the collectable stakes, you can console yourself [with] some fine music”… as if listening to Sean Urchins’ dreary Summershine could ever really make up for the loss of 50p and an SAE. Whatever happened to Mr Urchins, I wonder? I hope he’s OK. Shadow Factory was never really going to called Doing It For The Publicity, by the way: that was a dig at Creation’s Doing It For The Kids with its one previously unavailable track…

Posted in Capitalism, Feminism, Politics, Press General Label, Press Sha-la-la

Heavenly/Bratmobile/Skinned Teen/Linus, Conway Hall, London (Paul Moody, NME)

Sarah Records Posted on November 22, 2014 by MattJanuary 5, 2015

RiotGrrlPM

Posted in Feminism, Press Heavenly

Heavenly, The Monarch, Camden Town (Ngaire-Ruth, NME)

Sarah Records Posted on November 5, 2014 by MattJanuary 5, 2015

HeavenlyMonarch

Posted in Feminism, Press Heavenly

Five years anniversary advert

Sarah Records Posted on June 13, 2014 by MattAugust 4, 2015

Five Years Anniversary advertThis was the advert we took out to celebrate our fifth birthday; I think it amused us to use a quarter of a page in NME and Melody Maker to write the words “seven inch single” and “CAPITALISM” as big as we could, though in retrospect “seven inch” should have been hyphenated.

Posted in Adverts, Capitalism, Feminism

Sarah R.I.P. (Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, Sep 1995)

Sarah Records Posted on May 23, 2014 by MattJanuary 17, 2015

SarahRIP

Posted in Capitalism, Feminism, Press Another Sunny Day, Press Blueboy, Press East River Pipe, Press Even As We Speak, Press Field Mice, Press General Label, Press Orchids, Press Sarah Compilations, Press Sugargliders, Press Tramway, Sarah 100, Saropoly | Tagged Saropoly

Sarah 70 (inside pages)

Sarah Records Posted on May 15, 2014 by MattJanuary 17, 2015

Sarah 70 was released in 1993 and was a package containing a 5½” flexidisc (Blueboy performing Cloud Babies live) and three 4-page fanzines (Just As Good As I Should Be, Nice Boys Prefer Vanilla and I Am Telling You Because You Are Far Away). The text in the image below appeared on the inside of the package cover. (A pdf version is on the “Texts/Fanzines” page.)
SARAH70-inside cover

Posted in Capitalism, Feminism

Heavenly, Atta Girl (Everett True, Melody Maker)

Sarah Records Posted on March 15, 2014 by MattJanuary 13, 2015

AttaGirl

Posted in Feminism, Press Heavenly

Clare, letter to NME (reply by Simon Williams), Feb 1994

Sarah Records Posted on March 15, 2014 by MattAugust 3, 2015

ClareLetter

Posted in Feminism

Clare, letter to Melody Maker, August 1991

Sarah Records Posted on March 15, 2014 by MattAugust 3, 2015

ClareMMletter

Posted in Feminism

Sarah Records by Colm o’Callaghan

Sarah Records Posted on March 15, 2014 by MattJanuary 17, 2015

ColmOCallaghan

Posted in Capitalism, Feminism, Press Blueboy, Press Field Mice, Press General Label, Press Heavenly, Press Wake

Letter from Dickon Edwards (Shelley)

Sarah Records Posted on March 15, 2014 by MattJanuary 5, 2015

DickonLetter

Posted in Feminism, Press Shelley

Ivy (Tania Branigan, Melody Maker)

Sarah Records Posted on March 15, 2014 by MattJanuary 15, 2015

IvyTania

Posted in Feminism, Press Ivy

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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