Even with a finite catalogue like DinDisc\u2019s, it\u2019s difficult to provide an exhaustive overview, so let me be selective from here on out. I\u2019ll leave it to readers to investigate the Brians, Laura Warman, and the Name, all of whom like Duggie Campbell had only one DinDisc single to their name. Otherwise, what\u2019s noteworthy is how DinDisc more often committed to at least an album and a couple of singles for most of its recording artists. In for a penny, in for a pound\u2026<\/p>\n
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THE MONOCHROME SET<\/p>\n
After OMD and Martha and the Muffins, Carol Wilson put her highest hopes in the Monochrome Set. The proto-Britpop group had been shuffling around the lower tiers of London\u2019s punk and new wave scene, releasing their first three singles between November 1978 and September 1979 for a then-new Rough Trade Records. The circumstances under which Carol Wilson found them remain unclear \u2014 perhaps in an indie label showcase setting not unlike how she \u2018discovered\u2019 OMD \u2014 but DinDisc released the Monochrome Set\u2019s first two albums, Strange Boutique<\/i> and Love Zombies<\/i>, both in 1980. The fact that OMD and Martha and the Muffins shared a two-album schedule for the same year may suggest that DinDisc had similarly high hopes for the Monochrome Set. (Also, and in contrast to the present, record labels expected bands to be rather productive in the recording studio in this era.)<\/p>\n