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 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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It's the only studio recording by the band in its all-female indie guitar quartet format. It was simultaneously the first new Strawberry Switchblade release in over 30 years, & also their earliest recording ever to be released.
The EP has three songs, Trees & Flowers, Go Away (aka Seaside), and Spanish Song (aka Don't Go). Spanish Song was one of the few early songs that were never rerecorded by the duo.
Strawberry Switchblade photo shoot for the album cover, 1984. The one that was selected & colourised is top & centre.
(📸©️ Peter Anthony McArthur, used with permission)
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🎼🎶 singers in the rain, just singers in the rain 🎶
Strawberry Switchblade at the corner of Muswell Hill and Alexandra Gardens, London, 1985.
(📸©️ Peter Anthony McArthur, used with permission)
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Happy birthday Dolly Parton, 79 today! Strawberry Switchblade recorded an electropop cover of Jolene as their 5th single, released in September 1985, with a video shot in Paris:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq0UleP-VGg
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