He was in a band called Home Service in the early 80s, then was a producer in the mid 80s doing people like Red Box, after which he had a major triumph with the soundtrack for Orlando, & then a complete left turn out of music into the wine trade! www.thewineryuk.com/staff/david-...

With them are producer David Motion (left), and the late Michael Parker (guitarist with Jungr & Parker and Julian Clary's backing band!) who was the partner of Jill's friend Marg.

We talked to @nightschoolrecords.bsky.social's Michael Kasparis about the release of Strawberry Switchblade's 1982 4-Piece Demo. This budget recording by teenagers took 40 years to find its audience.
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Household names like Altered Images, The Bluebells, and Aztec Camera are mixed in with cult heroes like the Shakin' Pyramids, Sophisticated Boom Boom and the French Impressionists - & Rose McDowall's other band The Poems.

The Hellfire Club’s owner David Henderson still has the studio ledger and has been kind enough to share it with us. It's a who's who of the phenomenally vibrant Glasgow indie scene of the early 1980s.

Fast forward to 2017 & @nightschoolrecords.bsky.social released it as 1000 7" EPs. Then a year ago Trees & Flowers went viral on TikTok & now all 3 tracks are among their top 10 most streamed. The demo Trees & Flowers has 5 times the streams of Since Yesterday!

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That's a fabulous morning's listening right there. It may be heresy but these days i love the strnaglers early 80s singles even more than thier punk classics. From Golden Brown onwards there's subtleties and mystery that keep me coming back for another go

Source material:

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Then the band junked the backing musicians and went for electro production with David Motion instead, and the rest is history.

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It was part of a short tour with a new 5-piece line up. Rose & Jill were augmented by Simon Booth/Emmerson (guitar), John Cook (bass) & Roy Dodds (drums). They did a bunch of gigs, a BBC Janice Long session & 2 tracks produced by Robin Millar that were meant to be the start of the album

This is one of 200 vintage Strawberry Switchblade press articles on the fansite, all of them transcribed for those who can't/don't want to zoom in.

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Oops, you're right, thanks for flagging it up - it's on Thursday 13th

🎬 Panelists:
Carla J Easton - Writer, Narrator & Co-Director
Annie Spandex + Jane Egypt (Lung Leg)
Radhika - Singer-Songwriter & Visual Artist
Beth Black - Musician, Advocate & Director of Girls Rock Glasgow
Tamara Schlesinger (MALKA) - Artist & CEO of Hen Hoose

Succinct and accurate!

Here's Parton's original, from her 1970 album The Fairest of Them All.

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It's the first video on our YouTube playlist of more than 50 Strawberry Switchblade TV appearances and videos

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