Strawberry Switchblade, in the latter part of the band's existence, around 1986. Although it's a monochrome photo, they were wearing uncharacteristically colourful stuff this day.

(📸©️Peter McArthur, used with permission)

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Strawberry Switchblade, 1984/5. The person in their 1980s body warmer unintentionally serves to highlight the dramatic pizzazz of the band's aesthetic.

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Strawberry Switchblade were cover stars of No 1 magazine 40 years ago today, 23 March 1985. The interview touched on Jill's agoraphobia & the culture shock of moving to London from Glasgow, with photos of them around St Paul's Cathedral.

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Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Strawberry Switchblade's Let Her Go, here's one of only two TV perfomances we know of.

This is on BBC TV's Saturday morning kids' show Saturday Superstore, 16 March 1985.

Sorry for the sketchy video quality! It's transferred from a vintage VHS tape recorded from broadcast TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8lgegGjAfM

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Continuing a week of posts celebrating the 40th anniversary of Strawberry Switchblade's Let Her Go, here's Jill Bryson's acoustic home demo.

Like most Strawberry Switchblade songs, Let Her Go was written on guitar. Jill wrote the music and a basic vocal meody, Rose refined the melody & added lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrfpdrjBgE8

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Strawberry Switchblade on the cover of Patches, 24 March 1984.

Patches was a UK weekly magazine aimed at teenage girls, featuring music, fashion, advice and romance photo-stories.

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Strawberry Switchblade by candlelight.

Back page poster from UK music mag Record Mirror, 1985.

(📸©️Peter McArthur, used with permission)

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Strawberry Switchblade talking about their aesthetic & how Glasgow boredom encourages creativity. Interviewed by Paul Coia, March 1985.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh7J03YPSlQ

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Strawberry Switchblade centrespread poster from No 1 magazine, 1985.

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