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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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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The new documentary Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland's Girl Bands is going to be on BBC Scotland from 17 December - which means it should be generally available on BBC iPlayer from that date too

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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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