Strawberry Switchblade
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Strawberry Switchblade was a Scottish indie pop rock female quartet, sporting gothic sensibilities.
Formed in Glasgow in 1981, they were signed to WEA by Bill Drummond. By 1982 the band had been reduced to the duo of Jill Bryson and Rose McDowall, though Aztec Camera's Roddy Frame and then-future Cure drummer Boris Williams both appeared on some songs, it was just Bryson and McDowall at the time they released a minor hit in the mid-1980s with their song Since Yesterday. The tracks' opening fanfare came from Sibelius' Symphony No.5 and had also featured on the earlier hit "Beach Baby" by First Class. The girls' striking black and white wardrobe, including the polka dot rah-rah skirts worn for the sleeve of Since Yesterday, attracted some coverage at the time. Their somewhat "Gothic" appearance was also of note.
However, they attained little more than the unenviable title of one-hit wonders, when all subsequent releases to "Since Yesterday", failed to reach the Top 50 in the UK singles chart.
In 2006, Warner Bros. Platinum Records released a career retrospective of the band, made up of sixteen different tracks from various recordings on one compact disc.
[edit] External link
- Strawberry Switchblade.net - An unofficial Strawberry Switchblade website
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