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School Daze

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Sharon Signs to Cherry Red

Our Compilation of the year gets released on Vinyl and we have a Rough Trade / Night School Exclusive. Limited to 300 Copies on Red Vinyl. School Daze and RPM proudly present a compendium of the demo cassette generation from the early 1980’s, filtered through (principally British) independent women of the post-punk era. Sharon Signs To Cherry Red is but an overview of a fertile time, when the democratization of music through punk had resulted in new viewpoints, talents and perspectives finding their voice. The breadth here is a joy: from the sugary Dorothy (originally on Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records) to ex-Dolly Mixture Debsey Wykes’s Coming Up Roses, from the punked scrawl of The Petticoats to the avant funk of Bristol’s Scream and Dance, the one thread all these groups have in common is their fierce independence. That and their XX chromosomes. Some of these recordings are surfacing for the first time on Sharon Signs To Cherry Red, while others are from rare 7”s and compilation releases. School Daze is a new imprint from the Glasgow-based Night School, focusing on discovering and sharing the past.

Tracklist

• A1. The Kamikaze Pilots – Sharon Signs To Cherry Red

  A2. Dorothy – I Confess
  A3. Marine Girls – Hate The Girl
  A4. The Avocados – I Never Knew
  A5. Scream And Dance – In Rhythm
  A6. Strawberry Switchblade – Seaside (Go Away)
  A7. Dolly Mixture – How Come You’re Such A Hit With The Boys, Jane?
  A8. The Petticoats – Normal

  B1. Dawn Chorus And The Blue Tits – Teenage Kicks

  B2. Family Fodder – Debbie Harry
  B3. Vivien Goldman – Launderette
  B4. Trixie’s Big Red Motorbike – A Splash Of Red
  B5. Rexy – (Don’t) Turn Me Away
  B6. Sarah Goes Shopping – Summer Blues
  B7. Coming Up Roses – I Could Have Been Your Girlfriend
  B8. Amy and The Angels – I Hate Being In Love