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40 years ago today Strawberry Switchblade played the Shaw Theatre in London. Here's Being Cold from that gig.Since Yesterday came out a month earlier & was in the lower end of the charts. The album was ready, & they played this gig as a duo with studio-made backing tapes.

Jill plays the plaintive melodica that she used on the album version. String arranger David Bedford had objected as the melodica is ever so slightly out of tune - exactly why the band and producer David Motion loved it over the lush orchestral backing!

Before they start Being Cold, you hear Jill mention Delia Smith because the next song is so sad. The celebrity chef had been on a kids' TV show a few weeks earlier & criticised Since Yesterday for not being a jolly song

youtube.com/watch?v=h1ztgzGvf2Y

The gig was part of two nights of female bands at the Shaw Theatre to promote a book 'Signed, Sealed and Delivered - True Life Stories of Women in Pop' by Sue Stewart and Sheryl Garrett.

It was reviewed in Melody Maker, Sounds and the NME. Melody Maker said: 'It’s curious that the organisers of "A Weekend of Women Entertainers" should choose Strawberry Switchblade, a band that have been marketed to suit the male palate.' Sounds was similarly superficial, unimaginative and misogynistic.

strawberryswitchblade.net/melo

Strawberry Switchblade · Melody Maker live review (8 December 1984) - Strawberry SwitchbladeLive review of performance at Shaw Theatre, London.