Sold Date: January 12, 2015
Start Date: January 2, 2015
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DOGMA CATS / DOGMATIC DUO : Live At The Dogma Cafe (ORIGINAL C90 CASSETTE)

LEISURE SOUNDS / DELETED RECORDS / DOGMATIC CAFE DC.0002 UK 1980 C90 cassette (numbered edition #035)  

This is a very rare original 24-track cassette-only release by the great DIY minimal experimental punk new wave act Dogma Cats from Royston, Herts (see 7" Experts on Leisure Sounds SRS-33 from 1980). A' side has 8 tracks. B' side is by Dogmatic Duo (2 members of the band - see details below) and has 16 tracks. The cassette is made by Deleted Records (there is a thanks note to Protag and Deleted Records) - label of Instant Automatons / Colin Potter / Mic Woods / Missing Persons etc - hence the style and individual numbering of the cassette (this is number #035). Excellent DIY style and super scarce indeed. Both cassette and folded A4 cover are in great condition. 

From the excellent Messthetics web site:

DOGMA CATS - Choke (Leisure Sounds) Cambridge '80
The DOGMATIC DUO -Up / Going Up // Live at the Dogma Café cassette (DC 02) '80
The first sideof the Dogma Cats' "Live at the Dogma Café" cassette sticks pretty close to the 2nd-LP XTC sound of "Choke" (the 'Cats' only vinyl on their own Leisure Sounds label), but side 2 is just Steve Penn and Ed Harbud as The Dogmatic Duo, and it's some of the finest DIY gnarling and strumming around (especially since they've provided clean masters!). "Going Up" is a DIY-pop classic, while just plain "Up" should have had a less kindhearted combo thinking major lawsuit v. Nirvana ["Lithium," anyone?]. Dogma Cats morphed into The Great Divide, which soon subdivided into The Fruitbats [Ed], Jack the Bear [Steve] and The Bible [Boo Hewrdine], all of whom had vinyl on the Backs label (though clearly, none of them came from Norwich). Steve later joined Mike Kemp's Spaceward Studios and helped launch Sadie, while after the Bible, Boo went gone on to a successful solo career, frequently abetted by Rob Peters of the Dangerous Girls [q.v.]

cover: ex

cassette: ex

* Strict Record Collector grading (however I don't use higher than ex/ex grade)

P&P 

registered p&p for Europe GBP6.80, all other countries GBP8.80

* If you prefer standard mail please ask - however the risk would be on buyer

* I'm a collector myself so strict packing policies applied (I have never received a complaint for a broken item - all records moved out of ps and put in plain sleeve and picture sleeve in plastic sleeve).

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