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((Short description|English pop/punk band))
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((Infobox musical artist
| name            = Dolly Mixture
| image           =
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| alias           =
| origin          = [[Cambridge]], England
| genre           = ((hlist|[[Twee pop]]<ref name="AM">((cite web|first= Daphne |last= Carr |title= Dolly Mixture – Artist Biography |publisher= [[AllMusic]] |access-date= 15 May 2016 |url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dolly-mixture-mn0001169036/biography))</ref><ref name="Raymer">((cite news|first= Miles |last= Raymer |title= 12 O'Clock Track: Dolly Mixture, "Dream Come True" |newspaper= [[Chicago Reader]] |date= 7 May 2012 |access-date= 15 May 2016 |url= http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2012/05/06/12-oclock-track-dolly-mixture-never-let-it-go))</ref>|[[post-punk]]<ref name="AM"/><ref name="Raymer"/>|[[pop punk]]<ref>((cite web|first= Greg |last= Adams |title= Dolly Mixture – Demonstration Tapes |publisher= AllMusic |access-date= 15 May 2016 |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/demonstration-tapes-mw0000852499))</ref>))
| years_active    = 1978–1984; 2013
| label           = [[Chrysalis Records|Chrysalis]], Respond,<br>Dead Good Dollys Platters, Cordelia, Royal Mint
| associated_acts = ((hlist|[[Captain Sensible]]|Coming Up Roses|[[Saint Etienne (band)|Saint Etienne]]|Birdie|Sexlovebusterbaby!|Fruit Machine))
| website         = ((url|http://www.dollymixture.net))
| current_members =
| past_members    = ((ubl|Rachel Bor|Hester Smith|Debsey Wykes))
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'''Dolly Mixture''' were an English rock band, formed in 1978 by the bassist and vocalist Debsey Wykes, guitarist and vocalist Rachel Bor, and drummer Hester Smith.<ref name="Larkin80">((cite book|editor-first= Colin |editor-last= Larkin |editor-link= Colin Larkin (writer) |year= 2003 |title= [[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music]] |publisher= [[Virgin Books]] |edition= Third |page= 165 |isbn= 1-85227-969-9))</ref> They had a taste of top 40 success performing backing vocals for the [[Captain Sensible]] hit "[[Wot (song)|Wot]]", a top 10 hit with Sensible on "Glad It's All Over", and a UK No. 1 hit backing Sensible on his 1982 cover of "[[Happy Talk (song)|Happy Talk]]". Rachel Bor also featured on the Animus/Loose Records single "Wot NO Meat?" also by Captain Sensible in 1985. Bor and Wykes performed together on 24 April 2013 at the [[Islington Assembly Hall]] in London.

==Career==
===Early years===
The group was formed in [[Cambridge]], England, by Bor, Smith, and Wykes, three school friends who shared a fondness for [[the Shangri-Las]] and [[the Undertones]].<ref name="Larkin80"/> Dolly Mixture supported the Undertones on one of their first UK tours. The band also played venues with [[The Fall (band)|the Fall]] and [[The Transmitters (band)|the Transmitters]] in 1979.<ref>((cite web|title= gigography 1979 |work= The Fall Online |url= http://www.visi.com/fall/gigography/gig79.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090821010709/http://www.visi.com/fall/gigography/gig79.html |archive-date= 21 August 2009))</ref> They were once supported by [[U2]]. In Autumn 1981, they toured as the featured support band for [[Bad Manners]] on their Gosh It's tour and were well received by the second wave mod/ska audience that filled various theatres and venues up and down the land.

Relocating to London to gig extensively, national [[BBC Radio 1]] DJ [[John Peel]] gave them exposure on his radio show and in his weekly column in the UK pop paper, ''Sounds''.<ref name="Larkin80"/> Signed to [[Chrysalis Records]], the group released a cover of [[The Shirelles]] hit, "Baby It's You" (1980), produced by Eric Faulkner of the [[Bay City Rollers]]. However, the cover version was disowned by the group, which protested the label's attempt to sell them as a teen girl group.<ref name="Larkin80"/> Their next single, "Been Teen" (1981), was the first single released on [[Paul Weller (singer)|Paul Weller]]'s Respond label. It was followed by "Everything and More" (1982), also released on Respond. Both singles were produced by [[Captain Sensible]] and [[Paul Gray (English musician)|Paul Gray]] of [[The Damned (band)|the Damned]].<ref name="Larkin80"/> They became friends with Sensible and recorded backing vocals on his singles and albums. After Sensible had a hit with "Happy Talk" in 1982 (featuring Dolly Mixture, credited as "Dolly Mixtures" on the single,<ref>''Happy Talk'' 45 RPM single, B/W ''It/I Can't Stand It''. A&M CAP1, 1982</ref> and also in the song's video) and following various appearances on the television show ''[[Top of the Pops]]'', Dolly Mixture – as a separate entity from Captain Sensible – performed extensively.

===Dolly's "Demonstration Tapes"===
In 1984, the band released a double album called the ''Demonstration Tapes'' on their own Dead Good Dolly Platters label.<ref name="Larkin80"/> The album sported a plain white cover and each copy was numbered and autographed by the group members. One thousand copies were pressed. The album featured 27 demo tracks which covered a large part of the band's repertoire.

The same year saw a release of the "Remember This" single, again on Dead Good Dolly Platters label. The B-side was a piece entitled "Listening Pleasure/Borinda's Lament", which included dialogue (à la Home Service British Force's Radio DJ), a half-finished song and an instrumental chamber piece with Wykes on piano and Bor on cello.

===''Fireside'' EP and the end of Dolly Mixture===
The 12-inch vinyl ''Fireside EP'' was released in 1984 on Cordelia Records,<ref name="Larkin80"/> owned by Alan Jenkins, a member of [[the Deep Freeze Mice]]. The six-track EP represented the band's new artistic direction and contained mostly instrumental pieces, abandoning the guitar/bass/drum format with piano and strings.<ref name="Larkin80"/> The most recognisable track was "Dolly Medley", containing highlights of the Dolly's repertoire, including the previously unreleased "Dead Rainbow", all done in a [[chamber music]] style. It was produced by Dolly Mixture and Andrew Fryer.

The trio dissolved as a working band in 1984.<ref name="Larkin80"/>

===Reunions===
Bor and Wykes performed together on 24 April 2013 at the Islington Assembly Hall in London.

===Re-issues===
In 1995, [[Saint Etienne (band)|Saint Etienne]] member [[Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne)|Bob Stanley]] re-released the ''Demonstration Tapes'' album on his short-lived Royal Mint label.

In 1998, Japanese Musician [[Cornelius (musician)|Cornelius]] released the "Dreamism!" single in Japan on his Trattoria label. The single collected one previously unreleased song ("[[My Rainbow Valley]]") plus three alternate versions of previously released songs.

In 2010, Dolly Mixture release a three CD box set including the ''Demonstration Tapes'' album, all of the band's singles plus a complete disc of additional demos and live recordings, many of which are available for the first time. The box set will be limited edition only and features 56 re-mastered recordings and a 32-page booklet.

A vinyl double-LP was reissued by London-based label Germs of Youth to coincide with the box set. It is an exact copy of the 1984 release (limited to 300 copies), hand stamped with the original stamp and signed/numbered by the band.

in 2019, the LP ''Other Music'' was released by Sealed Records, a sublabel of [[La Vida Es Un Mus]].  It was a compilation of alternate versions and other recordings by the band, released as limited vinyl and streaming.<ref>((cite magazine|first= Layla |last= Gibbon |title= Dolly Mixture: Other Music LP |magazine= [[Maximumrocknroll]] |date= March 2020 |access-date= 20 February 2022 |url= https://maximumrocknroll.com/review/mrr-442/other-music-lp/))</ref>

==Other projects==
Wykes and Smith resurfaced with the group Coming Up Roses, which featured more melodic dance-pop.<ref name="Larkin80"/> With Wykes and Smith, the early line-up comprised ex-[[Shillelagh Sisters]] member Patricia O'Flynn (saxophone), Leigh Luscious (guitar), and ex-[[Amazulu (band)|Amazulu]] member Claire Kenny (bass). The latter three members were replaced by Jane Keay, Tony Watts, and Midus respectively. In 1989, Coming Up Roses released a six-track mini-album, ''I Said Ballroom'', on Utility Records. All songs were written by Wykes and Smith. The first Coming Up Roses gig was at The White Swan in [[Brixton]] on 29 November (as part of the Send a Volunteer to [[Nicaragua]] benefit), and the last performance was at Up the Creek in [[Greenwich]]. 

Meanwhile, Wykes started collaborating with [[Saint Etienne (band)|Saint Etienne]] as one of the band's regular backing singers; she has continued in this role, appearing with the band on its tour for the 2017 album ''Home Counties''. Saint Etienne's [[Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne)|Bob Stanley]] became the new Dolly Mixture champion, re-releasing their untitled 1984 double album (this time titled ''Demonstration Tapes'') as a single CD on the Royal Mint label in 1995. Together with Saint Etienne's [[Paul Kelly (film maker)|Paul Kelly]], Wykes went on to form indie-chamber-pop band Birdie, which released the albums ''Some Dusty'' (1999), ''Triple Echo'' (2001) and ''Reverb Deluxe'' (2003).

Rachel Bor played in a band called Fruit Machine until 1999. In 2021, she released her first solo album ''Picture in Mind'' under the name Rachel Love, and formed The Light Music Company with [[Martin Newell (musician)|Martin Newell]] the following year.

==Discography==
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!style="width:11em;"|Title
!style="width:8em;" |Release date
!style="width:20em;"|Label
!style="width:8em;" |Catalog No.
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|''Demonstration Tapes''
|1984
|Dead Good Dolly Platters<br/>Reissued in 1995 on Royal Mint Records
|DMLP 1<br/>RM 01 CD
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|+EPs
!style="width:11em;"|Title
!style="width:8em;" |Release date
!style="width:20em;"|Label
!style="width:8em;" |Catalog No.
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|''Fireside''
|1984
|Cordelia Records
|ERICAT 017
|12-inch EP
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|+Singles
!style="width:11em;"|Title
!style="width:8em;" |Release date
!style="width:20em;"|Label
!style="width:8em;" |Catalog No.
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|"[[Baby It's You]]"
|1980
|Chrysalis
|CHS 2459
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|"Been Teen"
|1981
|Respond
|RESP 1
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|"Everything And More"
|1982
|Respond
|RESP 4
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|"Remember This"
|1983
|Dead Good Dolly Platters
|DMS 1
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{|class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align: center;"
|+Other releases
!style="width:11em;"|Title
!style="width:8em;" |Release date
!style="width:20em;"|Label
!style="width:8em;" |Catalog No.
|-
|''The Cricket'' 
|1983
|Pavilioned in Splendour
|PiS 1
|7-inch EP by Perry Pavilion featuring Captain Sensible and Dolly Mixture
|-
|''Dreamism!''
|1998
|Trattoria
|MENU 156
|CD Maxi-Single
|-
|''Everything and More''
|2010
|Self-released
|DMBOX1
|3XCD - demo tapes, singles, additional material
|-
|Remember This: The Singles Collection 1980-1984
|2011
|For Us
|FU043
|singles compilation
|-
|''Other Music''
|2019
|Sealed Records
|SEAL 005
|compilation
|}

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz3flU3S-kM 2013 reunion]

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