On this day in 1985, Strawberry Switchblade recorded their 5th and final BBC radio session. Although Since Yesterday was still in the top ten and the album was imminent, the band decided to record 4 brand new songs.
Here's Nothing Changes, written by Jill Bryson and featuring her on lead vocals. 🧵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXnjq7V8S0c
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The songs on the session are very electronic-oriented, and it's easy to imagine the depth that Ryuichi Sakamoto would have brought to them if, as was mooted at the time, he'd produced the band's next album. Here they are together in Tokyo later in 1985, with Strawberry Switchblade's manager David Balfe.
📸©️Peter McArthur, used with permission
Two of the songs - Cut With the Cake Knife and Sixty Cowboys - were written solely by Rose and were included on her post-Switchblade demos that were later released as the Cut With The Cake Knife album.
https://night-school.bandcamp.com/album/cut-with-the-cake-knife
11 track album
Strawberry Switchblade session for John Peel, 5 February 1985:
Rose McDowall – guitar, vocals
Jill Bryson – guitar, melodica, vocals
David Balfe – synthesiser
Recorded at BBC Maida Vale 5
Produced by Mark Radcliffe
First broadcast 15 April 1985
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