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1982 4-Piece Demo” is the first official, fully-licensed and unreleased material to be released under the name Strawberry Switchblade in 30 years. Since disbanding amid major record label acrimony and personal differences in 1986, the already-cult band have since grown in stature and legend. Trailblazers in many ways, the band’s mythology justifiably centers around the charismatic duo of Jill Bryson and Rose McDowall, but that isn’t a complete picture.

Bryson and McDowall’s growing friendship, having met some years earlier on the punk scene, became a creative partnership: Bryson’s art school background and McDowall’s history in avant-punk group The Poets meant Strawberry Switchblade was a band pitted against many established norms. The band’s very first incarnation, an all-female 4 piece, recorded one demo at Glasgow’s Hellfire Club and played a handful of gigs. Friends Janice Goodlett and Carole McGowan completed the line up on bass and drums respectively. Strawberry Switchblade would eventually pair down to a duo and go on to chart success but it’s in these raw, passionate recordings that the songwriting and vocal elements were being hammered out and explored in real time.

“Spanish Song” is a previously unreleased song. With Rose McDowall’s instantly recognizable lead vocal dovetailing with Bryson’s harmonies and lead guitar, it’s the first glimpse at an alternative history of Strawberry Switchblade. This incarnation could easily have been featured on a Nuggets compilation or a precursor to the indie-pop revolution that would take over British bedrooms a couple of years later. Trees & Flowers is instantly recognizable, a bona fide classic that would earn the band its first record deal. Here it’s given a more forceful rhythm section: Goodlett and McGowan’s playing is in fact accomplished and doesn’t hint at the bands’ youth. Go Away would also surface later on the band’s debut LP but here it is a moody-garage stomper with a psychedelic, haunting refrain. These 3 songs point to a tantalizing future of the band that was never realized.

Remastered and restored by Sean Pennycook from the original cassette, with artwork based on a single photographic contact sheet (the only visual evidence of the band in this form) and with a booklet of photographs and new text from contemporary Stephen Pastel.

STRAWBERRY SWITCHBLADE - Spanish Song (from LSSN048 - 1982 4-Piece Demo)

'One Tree Hill' loved Songs To Love And Die By so much they named an episode after it.

"Songs To Love and Die By is a great debut album and it is clear why this band garners rave reviews from nearly every publication and has been labeled as an LA Times Buzz Band."  Absolute Punk

"Part Portishead, part Aimee Mann, part Low, part Massive Attack…however 8mm define their own place in modern music." -- The Pulse

8mm's music continued to be featured on hit TV shows including Grey's Anatomy, One Tree Hill and Moonlight.

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“Massive Attack meet June and Johnny Cash at a rave with David Lynch."

Founded by legendary producer/mixer multi-instrumentalist Sean Beavan (Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, No Doubt, A Perfect Circle) and his multi-talented wife, Juliette Beavan, 8mm (pron. “eight millimeter”), were one of the first bands to embrace DIY and strategic licensing. They quickly became championed by luminaries such as Nic Harcourt, Geoff Boucher, Kevin Bronson, Jason Pettigrew and Antiquiet. One of the most licensed bands in the industry (“Underworld: Awakening”, “Dirty Little Liars”, “Mistresses”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Nip Tuck”, “Nikita”, “One Tree Hill”, “Shark”, “Cold Case”, “Moonlight”, “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” etc.), their powerful live performances and intriguing videos have earned them an ever-increasing hardcore following.

– Los Angeles Times Buzz Band

“Got 8mm and put it on air the next day.” 
– Nic Harcourt, KCRW

“Top Band You Need To Know, Love and Worship” 
– Alternative Press Magazine

“8mm’s music is like a luxury limousine ride through the dirty backwaters of the Louisiana Bayou.” 
– DJ Kracked Aktor

“When I heard them, I was just as floored as everyone else in the venue.” 
– All Access Magazine

“Juliette has this vibe so enrapturing it’s impossible to take your eyes off of her. The woman invented cool.”
– Go To Girls

“Perfect…haunting…a work of art.” “
– Phoenix New Times

“That Justin Timberlake sure has some nerve. Before trying to record a song as brazen as “Sexyback,” he should’ve checked out what Juliette Beavan and her band, 8mm, were bringing to the party.” “
– The Pitch Magazine

“8mm is a standout independent band doing things their own way, and we love what we’re hearing.” “
– Antiquiet Magazine

“8mm wrap us in a thick, smoky, cinematic beauty and it’s difficult to  say which is more stunning; the songs, Sean’s red Gretsch guitar, or Juliette’s matching femme fatale frock.”
– The Fly UK