我隐秘的世界 - 莎拉厂牌的故事（2014）

The Story of Sarah Records
Sarah唱片公♥司♥的前世今生
Anyone that was doing music of the sort that we were
那时候任何玩我们这样音乐的乐队
wanted to be on Sarah before they were on anything else
最想加入的厂牌一定是Sarah
I trusted the label so much
我是如此相信这个厂牌
I would buy anything they put out
他们发行什么我都会买♥♥
There were Sarah gigs
那时有Sarah的演出
there were Sarah tours
Sarah的巡演
So we would go on tour with Brighter
我们和Brighter
and The Field Mice and Heavenly
The Field Mice、Heavenly一起到处演
I mean what a great bill
多棒的阵容
Sarah had a lot of anoraks
那时Sarah有许多独♥立♥乐拥趸
that followed the bands around
跟着乐队到处跑
I think that's brilliant because
我觉得那很棒 因为
they really cared about what they were saying
乐迷们真的非常在意乐队在说什么
and what they were doing
做什么
Just where we lived didn't seem to matter
似乎住哪里都不要紧
when it came to a Sarah gig
只要一听说哪里有Sarah的演出
We'd travel
我们就会跑去看
I always appreciate in music
我一直欣赏那种
anything that's done with passion
满怀热情创作出来的音乐
I always have a real sympathy for people
我一直对那些觉得自己格格不入的人
who feel they're outside of the norm
抱有许多同情
You can't romanticise something
如果音乐不够好
that wasn't good
是没法把它浪漫化的
It is the closest record label to perfection
这是我遇到过的
that I've ever come across
最接近完美的唱片厂牌
There was a reason why people
人们之所以热衷于这个厂牌
were like so such obsessive completists
是有原因的
It was about being part of something and
这关系到参与感、归属感
you can join in too if you want
只要你想，你也可以参与其中
If you see that someone's got like
看到某人有张Sarah 7吋
a Sarah Record 7" it's like Oh!
你会“哦”地感叹
My Secret World, The Story of Sarah Records
我的秘密世界——Sarah唱片公♥司♥的前世今生
I think one thing that I'm always amazed by
我有时也不敢相信
is that I ever ended up running a record label
自己做了这样一个厂牌
because if you ask anybody who
因为如果你去问任何一个
knew me when I was growing up
看着我长大的人
I was the shyest
我其实是那个最害羞的
least likely person to ever get involved
最不可能参与这种
in anything that had any sort of public profile
会受公众注意的事情的人
I don't think I was an unhappy teenager
我不觉得自己是个不快乐的少女
hut I think I quite liked
但我想我确实比较喜欢
playing with miserabllism
惨兮兮的那种
The Smiths were probably invented for me
The Smiths可能开♥发♥了我的这一属性
I certainly you know wore a lot of black
当时我确实经常一身黑
I think for people of my age
像我这样年纪的人
you know John Peel was the only
当时唯一的新音乐渠道
real source of hearing new music
就是John Peel的节目
because at that time Radio 1 I think
因为那时候Radio 1
used to go off air at 7 o'clock
晚上7点就停了
in the evening and go over to Radio 2
不得不换台到Radio 2
and then John Peel used to come hack
然后John Peel晚上10点
on again at 10 o'clock at night
会回到节目中
So anybody that was into
所以对当时任何一个
any sort of alternative, interesting, different music
喜欢另类、有趣、非主流音乐的人来说
if you didn't listen to John Peel
如果你不听John Peel
you would never hear it
就永远也听不到独♥立♥音乐
His presence as a person on the radio
他个人在广播中的存在
and I think that's true for a lot of people
对许多人来说十分鲜活
It was never just about the music
从来都不仅仅关乎音乐
it was always about listening to John Peel as well
能听到从John Peel手中放出的音乐才是最重要的
and that someone else
其他什么人
playing the exact same music
哪怕放的是同样的音乐
wouldn't have been quite the same thing
也无法产生同样的效果
so it was always sort of my mum trying
那时候我妈妈总是催我
to get me to turn it off
关掉收音机
and make sure I wasn't listening under the bed clothes and stuff
还要确保我没有在被窝里偷偷听
Those John Peel shows
那些John Peel的节目里
I mean it was bands like
播放的乐队都是诸如
Echo and The Bunnymen
Teardrop Explodes, Gang of Four
it was that sort of
都是那样的
Joy Division obviously
当然还少不了Joy Division
it was that sort of era and then
在那样一个时代
suddenly hearing Orange Juice I think
突然听到Orange Juice
was the sudden thought that
我突然想
maybe I could be involved with a scene like this
或许我也可以参与其中
These sound like the sort of people that
那些乐队听起来都是一些
I could sort of meet and talk to
我可以结识和交流
and get on with
并且相处得不错的人
I went to see the Alarm a lot
我看过The Alarm很多次
I mean they were sort of my first loves
他们就像我的初恋
And I'm not a fan of the music any more
现在我不再喜欢那样的音乐
but I loved the politics of them
但还是欣赏他们的政♥治♥态度
and I loved the fact that they deliberately
我喜欢他们那么平易近人地
made themselves so accessible to the fans
对待他们的乐迷
so you could always go and
所以你永远可以演出后
talk to them afterwards
径直走过去和他们交谈
Which you know for first real love of a band
你的初恋乐队
to be someone you could go and talk to was
变成了触手可及的人
quite amazing really I think so
那种感觉真的太棒了
I think that sort of formed quite a lot of my principles
我认为那些经历帮助我形成了
about what music should be like really
对音乐的定义和看法
I mean having grown up in London
我在伦敦长大
I knew I couldn't live anywhere small
我知道自己没法在小地方生活
I didn't want to go to university in a
我不想去一个相对小的城镇
relatively small city or town
去上大学
Bristol I know I liked the countryside around it
我知道布里斯托 我喜欢它周围的乡间
I like the sort of maritime aspect
我喜欢那里的船舶之类
I like the river
也喜欢那边的河流
and I like the fact that it's always seemed
喜欢那里总有点
slightly quirky and slightly different
略怪异 略不同的感觉
The big event for me was finding out
我最大的惊喜，是发现
that the guy who was living next door to me in the halls of residence at Bristol
那个住我隔壁的家伙
was into virtually the same music as me
和我听同样的音乐
and we would sort of egg each other on
于是我们就经常互相安利
and go to gig's together and buy records
一起去看演出 买♥♥唱片
and talk about them
聊各种音乐的事情
And then I think one day we saw a piece in
一天我们在什么报纸上看到一篇文章
I think it was the NME
我想应该是NME
about a fanzine called Hungry Beat
关于一本叫《Hungry Beat》的fanzine
and this was in the era
那个时候正好是
of the sort of first Creation bands
Creation厂牌推出首批乐队
Sort of Jasmine Minks, Biff Bang Pow!
Jasmine Minks、Biff Bang Pow!
People like that
这一类的
So we sent off for this fanzine
于是我们就订购了这本fanzine
and just thought that was fantastic
觉得它太棒了
because it was writing about all these bands that we loved
因为上面写的全是我们爱的乐队
and we thought we could do something like this
我们觉得自己也能行
That whole sort of like explosion
80年代的fanzine风潮
of fanzines in the 80's was partly to do
一部分原因要归于
with the actual inability of the London music press
伦敦音乐媒体的无能
to actually get off their arses
他们根本不愿挪挪屁♥股♥
and come to you know
去首都以外的地方
the provinces
探寻好的音乐
Without the internet it was
当时没有互联网
really hard to find out about stuff that you might like
很难找到你可能会喜欢的音乐
You basically had John Peel and fanzines
基本上你只能通过John Peel和那些fanzine
essentially were the two ways
这两种渠道
that you could actually find out about stuff that was below
才能接触到那些
the level that the NME was writing about
NME不屑关注的音乐