By The Sea - Strawberry Switchblade

Lynda (Peel Session) - Strawberry Switchblade

Little River (Peel Session) - Strawberry Switchblade

Strawberry Switchblade - Jolene (Bliss, 9/6/1985)

An early demo version of one of Strawberry Switchblade's most famous songs: Since Yesterday

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Dance ~ Strawberry Switchblade

A cover of Strawberry Switchblade's most famous song: Since Yesterday, performed by marimarirythemkillermachinegun

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since yesterday ~ marimari rythmkiller machinegun (Strawberry Switchblade Cover)

An alternate, more "stabby" version of Who Knows What Love Is, by Strawberry Switchblade. This version was excluded from the final album

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Who Knows What Love Is ~ Strawberry Switchblade (Alt. Ver)

Cut The With The Cake Knife was recorded by Rose McDowall in 1988/89 following the break up of her group Strawberry Switchblade. Produced with the aid of several musicians in several studios, the album features songs written for the fabled second Strawberry Switchblade album. More importantly perhaps it showcases the honest, direct and life-affirming songs of one of the greatest unsung songwriters of the modern pop era at a tumultuous time in her career.

Tibet opens the set and could be one of the best pop songs you’ve never heard. The innate sadness of the songs’ content – the loss of a friendship, impending sorrow – is heightened to heart-melting level by McDowall’s pop nous and melodic sensibility. Choruses and hooks are everywhere on Cake Knife, from the outsider take on stadium 80s pop in Wings Of Heaven to the spiraling, ecstatic So Vicious, a glorious anthem that highlights the human fragility in McDowall’s vocal performance, an instrument that has never lost the naïve purity it first exemplified in Strawberry Switchblade’s early 80s recordings. The centerpiece of the album, the title-track, is the greatest Switchblade pop chart hit that never was. Like the veiled melancholy of her former group’s hits, Cut With The Cake Knife hints at a darkness beneath the gloss, a darkness that saw McDowall delve into more esoteric territory with her subsequent recordings and collaborations. Cut With The Cake Knife serves as the bridge between the pop music McDowall had been making with her friends Jill Bryson, Lawrence from Felt and Primal Scream to what became a more extreme, deep sound informed by neo-folk and post industrial music.

Rose McDowall’s role in the canon has always been one of an outsider. Beginning in Glasgow’s East End in the avant proto-noise group The Poems, achieving fame briefly in the 80s and then disappearing into counter-cultural folklore, the emphasis in the internet-age has been skewed towards her image and cultural significance. Unseen to many, her solo work, her groups Sorrow and Spell and her collaborations with a whole host of underground luminaries have still touched lives. As McDowall elucidates: “They're real sad songs, about real life. I've had people come up to me to say I'd connected with them and helped them. I remember a gig in America when we made a whole room cry. It was bizarre. A couple at the front of the stage started crying and then these two boys beside and  suddenly everyone was crying. And I thought, "that's power."

Night School’s issue of Cut With The Cake Knife includes unpublished photographs, extensive sleeve notes from Rose McDowall and 2 bonus tracks culled from the bootleg 7” “Don’t Fear The Reaper.”


ROSE MCDOWALL - Tibet (from Cut With The Cake Knife LSSN027)

Jimmy Somerville - Live and Acoustic at Stella Polaris
SFELP052
Barcode : 5013929846210
Dealer Price 10.99
Pop

Tracklisting 

A1 : (You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real 
A2 : Why?
A3 : Back To Me 
A4: To Love Somebody
A5 : Come Lately

B1 : Some Wonder
B2 : For A Friend 
B3 : I Just Don’t Know What To Do
B4 : Smalltown Boy
B5 : Don’t Leave Me This Way


LIMITED EDITION VINYL LP - ONLY 500 COPIES WORLDWIDE

Jimmy Somerville performed a unique one-off special acoustic set in the summer of 2015 at the famous Stella Polaris festival in Denmark with many of his well known songs re-imagined. This souvenir release marks the very first time that a solo Jimmy Somerville live release has been made commercially available. The power of Jimmy's voice is evident in these inventive, all new acoustic arrangements of songs drawn from the full breadth of Jimmy's 30 year plus career including his breakthrough singles 'Smalltown Boy' and 'Why?' with Bronski Beat, his UK number one single 'Don't Leave Me This Way'  with the Communards and two undisputed highlights, 'Some Wonder' and 'Back To Me' from his recent album 'Homage' - his authentic celebration of the sound of the disco era. 

Jimmy's vocal range and dexterity is breathtaking and his backing band and singers blend incredibly into a soulful re-working of hits and favourite tracks from his extensive songbook. All in all, Jimmy is a performer and an artist at the pinnacle of his talent and demonstrably determined to have, and to give, a good time to his legions of loyal fans. We are proud to make this release available to all of his fans who were not lucky enough to witness what was one of the most indisputably creative performances of Jimmy's career! 




Jimmy Somerville - Live and Acoustic at Stella Polaris
SFE052
Barcode : 5013929846227
Dealer Price 7.99
Pop


Tracklisting 

1 : (You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real 
2 : Why?
3 : Back To Me 
4: To Love Somebody
5 : Come Lately
6 : Some Wonder
7 : For A Friend 
8 : I Just Don’t Know What To Do
9 : Smalltown Boy
10 : Don’t Leave Me This Way


LIMITED EDITION CD : ONLY 2000 COPIES WORLDWIDE - Packaged in a mini-LP style gatefold sleeve with a black vinyl-effect CD.

Jimmy Somerville performed a unique one-off special acoustic set in the summer of 2015 at the famous Stella Polaris festival in Denmark with many of his well known songs re-imagined. This souvenir release marks the very first time that a solo Jimmy Somerville live release has been made commercially available. The power of Jimmy's voice is evident in these inventive, all new acoustic arrangements of songs drawn from the full breadth of Jimmy's 30 year plus career including his breakthrough singles 'Smalltown Boy' and 'Why?' with Bronski Beat, his UK number one single 'Don't Leave Me This Way'  with the Communards and two undisputed highlights, 'Some Wonder' and 'Back To Me' from his recent album 'Homage' - his authentic celebration of the sound of the disco era. 

Jimmy's vocal range and dexterity is breathtaking and his backing band and singers blend incredibly into a soulful re-working of hits and favourite tracks from his extensive songbook. All in all, Jimmy is a performer and an artist at the pinnacle of his talent and demonstrably determined to have, and to give, a good time to his legions of loyal fans. We are proud to make this release available to all of his fans who were not lucky enough to witness what was one of the most indisputably creative performances of Jimmy's career! 



For A Friend

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For A Friend

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