Peter McArthur - Strawberry Switchblade's main photographer & Jill Bryson's partner - with his handiwork, the sleeve of the band's debut single Trees & Flowers, on a poster in Oxford Street, London, July 1983.

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40 years ago this week Strawberry Switchblade were in the middle of a tour supporting Howard Jones.

As far as we know, their only merch was this somewhat hastily created tour poster, using a version of the then-forthcoming album's artwork with different colouring, adorned with the wrong dates and several typos.

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Strawberry Switchblade, 1986

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Strawberry Switchblade on the cover of UK adolescent girls' magazine Blue Jeans, 27 April 1985.

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On this day 42 years ago, 2 December 1982, Orange Juice and Strawberry Switchblade played the final date of their tour at the Lyceum in London. Orange Juice played 13 dates, Strawberry Switchblade joining them for the final 10.

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Strawberry Switchblade pictured in a Jackson Pollocky splattered room, around 1985

📸Paul Cox

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Night time Tokyo graffiti. Strawberry Switchblade's first trip to Japan, 1985.

(📸©️ Peter Anthony McArthur, used with permission)

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Strawberry Switchblade, photographed by Sheila Rock.

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