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Release Date: 2020-07-03Label: Sheffield Tape Archive
This compilation was released on cassette by Dolebusters, an organisation set up to help unemployed musicians in Sheffield. The cassette contains a selection of local bands recorded between '85 and '87.The featured Pulp track is called Nights of Suburbia. This was recorded live at the Dolebusters Festival, Octagon Centre, Sheffield (1st September 1985).
Amongst the other bands featured are Trolley Dog Shag of which future Pulp bassist Steve Mackey was a member.
The cassette came with a booklet called the Dolebusters Owner's Manual to which most of the bands contributed a page. Pulp's contribution curiously contained what were to become the lyrics to the '92 song Styloroc (Nites of Suburbia).