Various Sharon Signs To Cherry Red

• 1. The Kamikaze Sex Pilots – Sharon Signs To Cherry Red
• 2. Dorothy Max Prior – I Confess
• 3. Marine Girls – Hate The Girl
• 4. The Avocados – I Never Knew
• 5. Scream And Dance – In Rhythm
• 6. Strawberry Switchblade – Seaside (Go Away)
• 7. Dolly Mixture – How Come You're Such A Hit With The Boys, Jane?
• 8. The Petticoats – Normal
• 9. Dawn Chorus & The Blue Tits – Teenage Kicks
• 10. Family Fodder – Debbie Harry
• 11. Vivien Goldman – Launderette
• 12. Trixie's Big Red Motorbike – A Splash Of Red
• 13. Rexy – (Don't) Turn Me Away
• 14. Sarah Goes Shopping – Summer Blues
• 15. Coming Up Roses – I Could Have Been Your Girlfriend
• 16. Amy And The Angels – I Hate Being In Love

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.