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Debsey Wykes was the bass-playing singer in the first all-girl punk group Dolly Mixture. Thrown into the musky, misogynistic, male-dominated world of the UK music industry in the late 1970s, they enjoyed unlikely #1 success alongside Captain Sensible of The Damned on 1982’s even unlikelier cover version of ‘Happy Talk’, whilst fame and success on their own individual terms eluded them.
Debsey went on to greater prominence with Saint Etienne, with whom she has performed since 1992.
Featuring a cast of contemporary post-punk heroes – from Paul Weller and the Jam (their first record label boss) to Madness and the Pogues – Teenage Daydream is a unique coming of age story of youthful ambition, enterprising DIY musical ethics and how an unlikely bunch of schoolgirl friends ended up on Top of the Pops in homemade hula skirts.
An evocative coming of age story from one of the UK’s first ever female post-punk musicians.
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