Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday performed on Japanese TV, 1985.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-2SlyTGCfI

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Remembering Caroline Crawley from Shelleyan Orphan on her birthday.

Members of Shelleyan Orphan and Strawberry Switchblade had flats in the same building, Caroline lived below Jill Bryson.

Here's Caroline with Jill in 1986, modelling for a photography student’s session of symbolism of women being silenced.

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On this day in 2013 Jill Bryson released her first music in 20 years. As part of The Shapists with her daughter Jessie Frost & Craig Hood, they released Change Your Mind. 🧵
https://theshapists.bandcamp.com/track/change-your-mind

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A pre-Strawberry Switchblade Jill Bryson serenading Postcard Records boss Alan Horne outside his flat that served as the label's headquarters - 185 West Princes Street, Glasgow - circa 1981.

(📸©️Peter McArthur, used with permission)

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Jill Bryson & her lifelong friend & fellow songwriter/musician Lucinda Sieger are on a new episode of the Encouragement Diaries podcast.

Jill & Lucinda have known each other since art school, before either was in a band. They ended up neighbours in London in the mid 1980s.

On Apple
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jill-bryson-of-strawberry-switchblade-brings-glasgow/id1547025338?i=1000697223921

And Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1lmquVGfQgyQ2iFXjKGJZR?si=016c7e5faa1a47cc

🧵

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Continuing a week of posts celebrating the 40th anniversary of Strawberry Switchblade's Let Her Go, here's Jill Bryson's acoustic home demo.

Like most Strawberry Switchblade songs, Let Her Go was written on guitar. Jill wrote the music and a basic vocal meody, Rose refined the melody & added lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrfpdrjBgE8

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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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Two shots from Strawberry Switchblade's final photo session, spring 1986.

(📸©️ Peter McArthur, used with permission)

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Strawberry Switchblade's love of polka dots went beyond the textile realm. Early copies of the 12" single of Since Yesterday came with a fold-out poster of them wearing plain white with polka dots projected on to them.

And here's another shot from the same session too (poor resolution though, sorry about that)

(📸©️ Peter Anthony McArthur. Used with permission)

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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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