“It’s the record label I know to be the closest one to perfection,” says one of the many people interviewed, and that’s probably right: the history of Bristol-based Sarah Records is the one of a particular and specific way of understanding pop music. Like a secret world for initiated members, Sarah dazzlingly shone between 1987 and 1995: with a hundred very aesthetically minded releases, an absolutely coherent selection, and the curator eyes of its founders Clare Wadd and Matt Haynes, who came from the fantastic world of fanzines. When CDs were taking over the world, Sarah resisted with a series of 7” singles that would help define a sweet sound known as twee pop –a derivation of sweet– whose origins go back to a compilation by the British magazine NME called C86. The indie ideals (indieals?) of the label were drafted by bands like The Orchids, The Field Mice, Heavenly, Talulah Gosh!, The Sea Urchind, and Another Sunny Day, all of which delivered powerful songs charged with admirable fragility. This thorough documentary goes over the label’s history in detail, featuring testimonies from many of the people involved, and depicts a sound that still captures sensitivities with contagious sweetness and joy. A pure –and very necessary– celebration. PC
Section: MúsicaD, G, E, P: Lucy Dawkins
F: Tom Readdy
DA: Lucy Dawkins, Tom Readdy
S: Ian Catt
M: Sarah Records
CP: Yes Please! Productions
Clare Wadd, Matt Haynes, Amelia Fletcher, Paul Stewart, Everett True
Yes Please! Productions. Lucy Dawkins
T +44 781 594 3639 E lucy@yespleaseproductions.com
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Graphic artist, filmmaker and music video director born in the UK. She was one of the founders of Yes Please! Productions, and My Secret World is her first feature as a film director.
05 May 2015
25 April 2015
25 April 2015
