Strawberry Switchblade were a Scottish female new wave duo formed in Glasgow in 1981 by Jill Bryson and Rose McDowall, best known for their song Since Yesterday from 1985, and their flamboyant clothing with bows and polkadots. The punk movement expanded rapidly in the United Kingdom in 1976. At t

Strawberry Switchblade was Jill Bryson and Rose McDowall—two girls from the opposite ends of the city of Glasgow. Jill was at art school with ambitions to be a painter. She loved music and dreamt of maybe one day being a singer in a band. Rose was from the deprived working class side of the city where violence was endemic. Her father had once been hit in the head with an axe in a case of mistaken identity. Rose felt different and wanted to do something more creative than just tick a box of…

Strawberry Switchblade (1985)

homesweetprison: ““Rose McDowall and Jill Bryson at Peter McArthur’s flat in Muswell Hill, London, 1984. Photo credit: Peter McArthur. ” ”

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Since Yesterday b/w By The Sea Strawberry Switchblade, Korova Records/UK (1984)

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