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SARAH Records has recently been examined in a film (), a book () and a retrospective exhibition in the label’s home town of Bristol. All three made a decent case for a reappraisal of this none-more-indie institution founded by Clare Wadd and Matt Haynes, fanzine-loving students who bonded at a Julian Cope concert. True to the label’s democratic ideals, Jane Duffus’s presents the story as an oral history, in which the slights of the music press throb like a fresh bruise.

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