Continuing a week celebrating the 40th anniversary of Strawberry Switchblade's Let Her Go single, here's the first studio recording of it - an October 1982 BBC radio session in their original indie style with Orange Juice's James Kirk on bass & Shahid Sarwar of the Recognitions on drums.
As mentioned yesterday, it was initially called Linda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAFhl1Qi39g
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Strawberry Switchblade now own all their master tapes including the BBC sessions so hopefully there'll be a comprehensive release in luscious digital quality before long.
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Please forgive the audio quality of the Janice Long version of Deep Water - it's a sketchy cassette recording of the radio broadcast. You can hear the rest of that session & all four other BBC sessions (mostly in better quality!) on our YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2HnBcxZSYnLbrJ0bUcNpZA_yfrkUSHO
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All the songs from the January 1985 session went on to be recorded by Rose & Jill for the album with producer David Motion later in the year, but those synthpop textures are very different arrangements from these performed by a working indie guitar band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGFShRNstvI
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41 years ago today, 23 January 1984, Strawberry Switchblade recorded a session for BBC Radio 1's Janice Long, who was a big fan of the band. Here's Deep Water from the session.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPFSJDaZ9pA
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