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Personal Rating: 7 / 10
Recommended Tracks: "Where the Seas Fall silent", "Kill Switch", "Dead Ringer", "Killing Stone", "Wretched", "The Family", "The Fallen"
To mark the 40th anniversary of Strawberry Switchblade's single Let Her Go, every day this week we'll be posting content to do with the song. Here's the full-page ad placed in the UK music press - 'from the girls that know'.
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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, 1984 or 1985.
📸Paul Cox
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Strawberry Switchblade centrespread poster from No 1 magazine, 1985.
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The gig was favourably reviewed in Sounds, only the fourth time the band had been in the music press.
https://strawberryswitchblade.net/sounds-live-review-13-november-1982/
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Strawberry Switchblade perform Since Yesterday on Top of the Pops, 24 January 1985 - 40 years ago today!
Having appeared on the show 2 weeks previously the single had shot up the charts to its peak at number 5.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCXFWv2o73U
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