Little River (Peel Session) - Strawberry Switchblade

Trees & Flowers (Peel Session) - Strawberry Switchblade

Strawberry Switchblade - Sixty Cowboys

An unreleased demo for the never-released second album by Strawberry Switchblade. Jill Bryson (who usually did the work of background vocals) is the solo singer of this track

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Dark 7 ~ Strawberry Switchblade

A rare track from Strawberry Switchblade, a remake of one of their older songs

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By The Sea (Alt. Ver) ~ Strawberry Switchblade

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

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Dance ~ Strawberry Switchblade

A rare song from Strawberry Switchblade, only released as an A (or B) side

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By The Sea (Original) ~ Strawberry Switchblade

A mystical blend of pop rock, soft rock, and synthpop — weaving dreamy melodies, atmospheric textures, and stories of magic and emotion.

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The Swamp Is Singing

School Daze and RPM proudly present a compendium of the demo cassette generation from the early 1980’s, filtered through (principally British) independent women of the post-punk era.

‘Sharon Signs To Cherry Red’ began life as the archetypal independent single released on the obscure Lowther International label by archetypal independent act, The Kamikaze Pilots, the review of whom by Danny Kelly in the NME gives us the starting point: “Disturbingly, also from Norwich…comes this plaintive tribute to/assassination of all the earnest misery gobs ever signed to Cherry Red’s roster, with particular reference to the Tracey Thorn pantheon”. What was a gentle mocking of The Marine Girls et al is now the starting point for this meander through the 80s’ underground, a period which enabled more involvement from women in independent music, a slight, if not complete, freeing up of the male-dominated hegemony that had existed before punk. Many of these artists were night-time John Peel session regulars, fighting for daytime coverage in the press, walking the fine line of questioning from the NME (hip young gunslingers asking sexual politics) and Smash Hits (Milton Keynes readers asking which hairspray they used).

‘Sharon…’ is but an overview of a fertile time, when the democratization of music through punk had resulted in new viewpoints, talents and perspectives finding their voice. The breadth here is a joy: from the sugary Dorothy (originally on Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records) to ex-Dolly Mixture Debsey Wykes’s Sarah Goes Shopping,  from the punked scrawl of The Petticoats to the avant funk of Bristol’s Scream & Dance, the one thread all these groups have in common is their fierce independence. That and their XX chromosomes. Some of these recordings are surfacing for the first time on “Sharon Signs To Cherry Red,” while others are from rare 7”s and compilation releases.

School Daze is a new imprint to the Glasgow-based Night School, focusing on discovering and sharing the past.

Strawberry Switchblade - Seaside (Go Away)

"Dark 7" Strawberry Switchblade

Go Away (Demo) - Strawberry Switchblade

a little punk rock fairy princess girl, an innocent angel who can do no wrong 🌸🐇🔪

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Dark 7 ~ Strawberry Switchblade

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