“At long last – the most essential boxset of the year. The triple CD set features 56 tracks (most of CD for the first time) including ‘the demonstration tapes’ album, all singles a and b sides plus a disc of previously unreleased and live recordings. Also included is a 32 page booklet with unseen photographs and 2500 word essay. Dolly Mixture were a British trio that formed in 1979, put out a handful of brilliant singles (all on different labels) and one of the most obscure and collectible records of the punk era ‘the demonstration tapes’. Dolly Mixture were like the Shangri-la’s or the go-go’s if they had any class; or the raincoats without the weirdness and electric violins. Dolly Mixture toured with the undertones, played John Peel’s fortieth birthday party, recorded a wealth of true pop classics, gave U2 a support-act leg-up, wrote songs for Lena Zavaroni and influenced the whole riot ‘grrrl’ movement. But floored by on-the-road illness, decooled by captain sensible and dismissed as ‘The Slits meet the Nolans’ by a UK music industry too hung up on black leather hipness.”

-Sean

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