- Minipops – Since Yesterday
- Current 93 – Since Yesterday
- Revolver – Since Yesterday
- MariMari Rhythmkiller Machinegun – Since Yesterday (Original Ver.)
- MariMari Rhythmkiller Machinegun – Goodnight Darling Ooh (Since Yesterday Alternative Ver. #1)
- MariMari Rhythmkiller Machinegun – Crying Babe, Since Yesterday (Since Yesterday Alternative Ver. #2)
- mademoiselleSHORTHAIR! – Since Yesterday
- Les Deux – Since Yesterday
- Potshot – Since Yesterday
- Current 93 – Since Yesterday (live)
- Hinano Yoshikawa – Since Yesterday
- Scudelia Electro – Since Yesterday
- Wussom*Pow! – Since Yesterday
- Love Rock – Strawberry Rush
- MariMari Rhythmkiller Machinegun – Since Yesterday
- Tommy february6 – Since Yesterday
- Tompaulin – Since Yesterday
- Boyracer – Since Yesterday
- lab. – Since Yesterday
- Automat – Since Yesterday
- The Metric Mile – Trees and Flowers
- Dave House – Since Yesterday
- Mano De Santo – Desde Ayer (Since Yesterday)
- Rocket K – Since Yesterday
- Anne Marie Almedal – Since Yesterday
- Attic Lights – Since Yesterday
- Dum Dum Girls – Trees and Flowers
- Goodbye Charlie – Since Yesterday (Northernbeat Master Mix)
- Geek Sleep Sheep – Since Yesterday
- Free Kick – Since Yesterday
- Harajuku Project – Since Yesterday
- The Shapists – Trees and Flowers
- Haruna Yusa – Trees and Flowers
- Lil Ugly Mane – Go Away
- Parralox – Who Knows What Love Is?
- Alex Black – Nothing Changes
- The Umbrellas – Dance
- Karine Polwart – Since Yesterday
- Radio Romantic – Since Yesterday
- Contour – Go Away
- Sulis Noctis – Trees and Flowers
- Jody and the Jerms – Since Yesterday
- Polly Urethane – Go Away
- Dave Leo Baker – Being Cold, Trees and Flowers, Beautiful End
- BooBooSousa – Trees and Flowers (feat. Contact Blur)
- idkconundrum – Go Away (feat. Strawberry Switcbhlade)
- Nivek Tek Vs. Keith Kemper – Being Cold remixes
- Air-Con Boom Boom One San – Since Yesterday
- Korra Rain – Since Yesterday
- Mavis Knight – Since Yesterday
- Jowe Head – Since Yesterday
- The Penkiln Burn Players – Trees and Flowers
- nahdoitagain – Go Away
- Faux Bear – Since Yesterday
Minipops – Since Yesterday
Wanna Have Fun
K-Tel
KLP210
UK
1985
Released in Canada, LP with gatefold cover and cassette, Quality QRSP 1018 and QRSPC 1018, 1985.
Released in Sweden, LP, Mariann MLPH 1621, 1986.
Minipops was a deeply unsettling 1980s British TV show where kids would dress up as pop stars and sing songs. Bizarrely, the Minipops kids were allowed to release a flabbergasting total of nine albums.
They were the first artist to release a Strawberry Switchblade cover. At least you know it’s going to get better from here.
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Current 93 – Since Yesterday
Swastikas For Noddy
LP and CD
LAYLAH Antirecords
LAY20 / LAYCD20
Belgium
1988
Reissued in the UK as Swastikas For Goddy, Durtro DURTRO017CD, 1993.
Occupying a somewhat different place on the musical spectrum to Minipops, Current 93 featured Rose on numerous recordings, including the Swastikas For Noddy album.
After legal action by the copyright owners of Noddy, the album was reissued as Swastikas for Goddy.
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1888
LP
New European Recordings
BAD VC 693
UK
1990
Side 1 is Death In June tracks featuring Rose, side 2 is Current 93, including the version of Since Yesterday previously released on Swastikas For Noddy.
Approximately 1500 copies on black vinyl, 1000 on red, and 500 on clear.
Revolver – Since Yesterday
Venice
12 inch and CD single
Hut Recordings
HUTT14 / HUTCD14
UK
1992
Fey indie boys Revolver covered Since Yesterday as the extra track on the 12 ” and CD formats of their single Venice.
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Baby’s Angry
CD and cassette
Caroline Records
CAROL1722-2 / CAROL1722-4
USA
1992
Released in Australia on CD, Caroline Records VOZC2071, 1992
Since Yesterday was reissued on this compilation album.
MariMari Rhythmkiller Machinegun – Since Yesterday
Since Yesterday
10 inch and CD single
Cardinal Records
BDCARMM0001 / BDCARMM0002
Japan
1995
The 10 inch single is on blue vinyl and plays at 33 rpm.
The band’s name is spelled MariMari Rythmkiller Machinegun on this release.
MariMari Rhythmkiller Machinegun’s debut release featured three radically different reworkings of Since Yesterday with Japanese lyrics;
Since Yesterday (Original Ver.)
Goodnight Darling Ooh (Since Yesterday Alternative Ver. #1)
Crying Babe, Since Yesterday (Since Yesterday Alternative Ver. #2)
The vinyl only features the first two versions, the CD has all three.
The Original Version is an acoustic jazzy groove.
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The 9 minute Goodnight Darling Ooh is a floating atmosphere that borrows more than a little from the early bit of the Velvet Underground’s Heroin.
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Crying Babe, Since Yesterday is a lo-fi psychedelic ambient vibe owing little to the original song.
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As if these three versions weren’t enough, in 2000 they recorded yet another markedly different version as single.
mademoiselleSHORTHAIR! – Since Yesterday
Mezzo
CD
Gyuune Cassette
CD95-05
Japan
1996
This Japanese duo’s debut album features spacey acoustic tracks galore, deceptively simple with outbursts of layered vocals including this take on Since Yesterday.
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Les Deux – Since Yesterday
Stock and Aitken Produce – Dance Covers Sensation
CD
Cutting Edge
CTCR-11016
Japan
1996
Energetic euro-dance version, with the squeaky push-button production you’d expect from two-thirds of the unholy trinity.
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I Love To Dance
CD
Avex Tracks / Love This Records
AVTCD-95049
Japan
1996
Also released on cassette in Indonesia, King’s Ind KG-4140996, 1996.
Best ’97
CD
Avex Trax
AVTCD-95065M
Singapore
1997
“Nothin’ but the best dance hits” says the cover, despite all evidence.
Not to be confused with the Taiwan release of the same album which has 19 of the 20 tracks, but drops Since Yesterday and includes Do Fries Go With That Shake by Gillette instead.
Smash Hits Gone Dance 2
CD
Gresham Records
CDDGR 1329 M
South Africa
1996
Potshot – Since Yesterday
Pots and Shots
LP and CD
Asian Man Records
AM018
USA
1997
Japanese ska version at such a pace that it’s all over in less than two minutes.
Reissued on deluxe double CD in Japan, TV-FREAK Records TV-123, 2017.
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Current 93 – Since Yesterday (live)
Cats Drunk on Copper
CD
Durtro
DURTRO056CD
UK
Recorded 1997, released 2001
A live album featuring Rose (including vocals on Since Yesterday), recorded at Union Chapel in London on 3 May 1997.
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Hinano Yoshikawa – Since Yesterday
One More Kiss
3 inch CD single
Pony Canyon
PCDA-01048
Japan
1998
3 inch CD in longform gatefold cover.
Japanese model turned J-pop singer Hinano Yoshikawa covered Since Yesterday with the Japanese lyrics from MariMari Rhythmkiller Machinegun’s version, and a surprise metal guitar breakdown. Released on the One More Kiss CD single, along with an instrumental version for you karaoke fans.
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I Am Pink
CD
Pony Canyon
PCCA-01200
Japan
1998
The vocal version was released shortly after on her only album, I Am Pink. It was released in a pink box with a set of Hinano pop-up dolls.
Scudelia Electro – Since Yesterday
Wine, Chicken and Music
2xCD
Polystar
PSCR-5683
Japan
1998
A fine acoustic guitar and accordion-led version cover, released as a hidden track at the end of the CD version of the album
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Wussom*Pow! – Since Yesterday
Little Darla Has A Treat For You vol.11, winter ’99
CD
Darla Records
DRL-080
USA
1999
San Franciso indie band Wussom*Pow! recorded a guitar-based cover, blending muscularity and melody, for a budget-priced various artists sampler album
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Love Rock – Strawberry Rush
Strawberry Rush
12 inch single
Pump Records
PURE01
UK
1999
33 rpm.
Not strictly a cover version, this is two mixes of a pounding hard house track that prominently uses the fanfare from the Since Yesterday intro.
A: Strawberry Rush (Original Mix)
B: Strawberry Rush (Aldrich & Glennon Remix)
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MariMari Rhythmkiller Machinegun – Since Yesterday
TTAGGG / Since Yesterday
CD single
Polydor
POCH-1963
Japan
2000
A fourth version of Since Yesterday from this band, this time a gorgeous spacey rendition, featuring the Japanese lyrics that vocalist Mari wrote and sang in the earlier ones (and that Hinano Yoshikawa used for her cover too).
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Tommy february6 – Since Yesterday
Everyday at the Bus Stop
CD single
DefSTAR Records
DFCZ 1037-8
Japan
2001
Tommy february6, the lightweight plastic pop alterego of The Brilliant Green’s singer Kawase Tomoko, did a high energy dance-pop cover as an extra track on her debut single.
There was a standard jewel case and a limited edition digipak CD version.
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Everyday at the Bus Stop
12 inch single
DefSTAR Records
DDJF 93003
Japan
2001
Promotional release only.
33 rpm.
At the time of release, Bland Planet asked her about the cover:
J*GM: The third track on the album “Since Yesteray” right? Is that how it began?
T: Yeah. =) Well I guess it would have been fine if we covered it as BuriGuri but the musical style would have changed, and if I was going to go to the trouble of doing it, I thought I may as well do it solo with a concept. And if I was gonna go ahead and release it, it would probably be better to do an original song then a cover.
J*GM: Did you like Strawberry Switchblade?
T: Not enough to buy their albums or anything, but this song has been lying around in me for a long time, and I’ve always wanted to try singing it. Of course I don’t know how it would really sound but, immediately after I heard the song it was like going round and round. I liked that about it.
Tompaulin – Since Yesterday
BBC John Peel session, unreleased
2001
Melodic Blackburn indie-pop band Tompaulin included a cover of Since Yesterday in their second and final Radio 1 John Peel session. Recorded 2 September 2001, broadcast 20 November 2001.
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Boyracer – Since Yesterday
Girlracer
CD
555 Recordings
555CD57
USA
2003
Once-Leeds, latterly-Arizonan purveyors of guitar indie pop with a good dose of heavy dirty noise, Boyracer covered Since Yesterday on Girlracer, a collection of six covers of girlgroup songs.
The CD was released for Boyracer’s spring 2003 US tour with Kanda. It features a 6-track EP of cover versions by each band.
Hand-numbered edition of 500 copies issued in silk-screened gatefold sleeves.
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lab. – Since Yesterday
Piper
CD
Misshitsu Neurose
MSNA-046
Japan
2004
Japanese indie rockers lab. covered Since Yesterday on their debut album.
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Automat – Since Yesterday
Just Imagine Drive
CD
Ravenna Records
ravenna2
USA
2004
Not to be confused with several other bands of the same name, this is the acoustic lo-fi American one.
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The Metric Mile – Trees and Flowers
Not officially released.
2004
New York duo The Metric Mile recorded a version of Trees and Flowers (‘we copied their song because we couldn’t copy their look’) as an out-take during sessions for their 3″ CD EP How To Beat The SAT.
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Dave House – Since Yesterday
You Are On My Frequency
CD single
Gravity Dip
DIP018
UK
2005
Dave House duetted Since Yesterday with Jenny Owen Youngs as one of the tracks on his debut single.
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Songs From the Back of a Van
CDr
(no label, self-released)
UK
2008
The cover of Since Yesterday was reissued on this self-released compilation of singles, bonus tracks, remixes, demos and live recordings.
Mano De Santo – Desde Ayer (Since Yesterday)
En Plan Travesti – Volumen Final
CD
Subterfuge Records
21587CD
Spain
2006
The Spanish duo recorded their reworking for this Spanish various artists compilation album.
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Rocket K – Since Yesterday
Time Machine RK
CD
Grooovie Drunker records
KOCA-38
Japan
2007
These Japanese pop-punkers, led by Grooovie Drunker label boss Koga, blasted through Since Yesterday on their 2007 album of cover versions.
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Anne Marie Almedal – Since Yesterday
The Siren and the Sage
CD
+47 / Warner Music Norway
5051442-4055-2-1
Norway
2007
Norwegian musician Anne Marie Almedal recorded an understated, swoony cover of Since Yesterday on her debut solo album after leaving Velvet Belly.
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Attic Lights – Since Yesterday
Not officially released.
2009
Strawberry Switchblade’s fellow Glaswegians and heirs to the Postcard Records sonic legacy, indie powerpop band Attic Lights recorded a snippet of Since Yesterday for an advert for STV Jobs.
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Dum Dum Girls – Trees and Flowers
End of Daze
12 inch and CD EP
Sub Pop
SP1001
USA
2012
Dreamy ethereal cover, slow and swirling.
Vinyl came in black and limited edition clear.
Same catalogue number on the CD and both vinyl editions.
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Goodbye Charlie – Since Yesterday (Northernbeat Master Mix)
Gayfest 2013
CD
Klone Records
CDKOPY 195
UK
2013
Hi-NRG gay club version, on an ‘eighties flashback edition’ album of similarly styled covers of 1980s pop classics. If you like this version of Since Yesterday you’ll love Into The Groove by *checks notes* The Booty Jocks.
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Geek Sleep Sheep – Since Yesterday
Hitsuji
CD single
EMI / Universal Music
TYCT-30007
Japan
2013
Lively version from these Japanese shoegazesque guitar slingers, released as one of the bonus tracks on their debut single.
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Free Kick – Since Yesterday
Potshot Is Mine
7 inch EP
1138
1138-0036
Japan
2014
A 33rpm 7 inch EP paying tribute to Japanese ska band Potshot. One side features Coconuts Pine, the other has Hokkaido-based ska-punkers Free Kick. The bands do two songs each, and Free Kick cover Potshot’s cover of Since Yesterday.
Some copies pressed on green vinyl, some on red.
Harajuku Project – Since Yesterday
Gothic Lolita Playlist Mix
Not released in physical format
2014
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The Shapists – Trees and Flowers
Trees and Flowers
Not released in physical format
2014
The Shapists were Jill Bryson, her daughter Jessie Frost, and Craig Hood.
They released eight songs individually on Bandcamp and Soundcloud 2013-2015, and a 7 inch single of two of the tracks. They include songs Jill wrote immediately after Strawberry Switchblade (Dust Index, Daddy I’ll Drown), and a version of Trees and Flowers.
Haruna Yusa – Trees and Flowers
Spring Has Sprung
CD
My Best! Records
MYRD86
Japan
2015
A limited edition promo copy came with a bonus disc of 5 demo versions of tracks from the album.
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Lil Ugly Mane – Go Away
Three Sided Tape: Instrumentals and Unreleased Shit 2008-2011, vol 2
Cassette
Ormolycka
oo98
USA
2015
Not so much a cover version, more of an experimental hiphop remix of the Strawberry Switchblade album version of Go Away.
A six cassette collection of tracks recovered from the damaged computer of Travis Miller (aka Lil Ugly Mane, aka Shawn Kemp) in 2013. Very limited edition (reportedly 85 copies), 3 cassettes in each of 2 volumes. The tracks on the other side of a tape were the same as the first side but played backwards.
Play on Go Away (First Version) on YouTube:
Play on Go Away (Reversed) on YouTube, if you really want to:
Parralox – Who Knows What Love Is?
Holiday ’17
CD
Conzoom Records
CRCD PLOX 24
Germany
2017
This Australian electronic band appear to be the first to cover Who Knows What Love Is?
As well as the standard CD release, a limited edition version of 150 came with three bonus CDRs.
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Alex Black – Nothing Changes
Baby EP
Not released in physical format
2017
Seemingly the first and only cover of this track only recorded by Strawberry Switchblade for a 1985 BBC radio session.
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The Umbrellas – Dance
Maritime EP
Cassette
Discontinuous Innovation Inc.
.046
USA
2019
These San Francisco-based jangle popsters released a cover of Dance, the early version of Since Yesterday only available on unofficial releases, as the bonus track on the cassette version of their Maritime EP (the vinyl version doesn’t have Dance, only the four other EP tracks).
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Karine Polwart – Since Yesterday
Karine Polwart’s Scottish Songbook
LP, cassette and CD
Hegri Music
HEGRILP11 / HEGRICS11 / HEGRICD11
UK
2019
This sparse and subtle version typiifes Karine’s thoughtful approach to cover versions.
LP was limited edition, pressed on red vinyl. Cassette was also limited edition. The CD, while not generally limited edition, did have a limited edition deluxe digibook version with a 36 page booklet, catalogue number HEGRICDX11.
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Radio Romantic – Since Yesterday
Since Yesterday
Not released in physical format
2020
The duo apparently only released this excellent cover of Since Yesterday on YouTube.
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Contour – Go Away
Go Away
Not released in physical format
2020
Contour’s eerie hiphop stylings are perfectly suited to the delicate yet uneasy atmosphere of this song. And it’s another American cover of a Strawberry Switchblade song, which is especially gratifying given they never actually released anything in the USA.
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Sulis Noctis – Trees and Flowers
Trees and Flowers
Not released in physical format
2022
Beautiful treatment with appropriately wonderful harmonies, released in memory of one of the singers, Emily Clavering
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Jody and the Jerms – Since Yesterday
Flicker
CD
Self-released
UK
2022
The Oxford punchy pop band’s cover of Since Yesterday was originally released for download in October 2020 as a double A-side (if such a term makes sense on intangible formats) with their own song Belong.
It was finally given a physical release on their 2022 compilation album Flicker.
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Polly Urethane – Go Away
Go Away
Not released in physical format
2022
Polly’s faithful cover is matched by her brilliant video putting the Strawberry Switchblade aesthetic into the present day and the Colorado snow.
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Dave Leo Baker – Being Cold, Trees and Flowers, Beautiful End
Piano Reflections vol. 1
Not released in physical format
2022
An album of 35 reflective piano instrumental covers, including three Strawberry Switchblade songs. Thisi isn’t some 80s hits cash-in, picking some pretty deep cuts it’s clear this guy clearly loves the songs.
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BooBooSousa – Trees and Flowers (feat. Contact Blur)
Trees and Flowers
Not released in physical format
3378364 Records DK
2023
This nebulous lo-fi version has only been released on download and streaming services.
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idkconundrum – Go Away (feat. Strawberry Switchblade)
Go Away (feat. Strawberry Switchblade)
Not released in physical format
2023
This brief intense track samples the album version of Go Away and uses a lot of its lyrics and melody too.
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Nivek Tek Vs. Keith Kemper – Being Cold remixes
Being Cold remixes
Not released in physical format
2023
Radical upbeat EDM reworkings of the album’s closing track, available in numerous remixes on selected streaming services.
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Air-Con Boom Boom One San – Since Yesterday
Air-Con Boom Boom One San Republic
Not released in physical format
22nd Century Tunes
2024
Demonstrating a markedly different vocal approach compared to her usual punk stylings, this has only been released on dowload and streaming services.
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Korra Rain – Since Yesterday
Hawt Rawring T-Girl
Not released in physical format
HRT Records
2024
Fabulously produced contemporary electronica a go-go from this young New Yorker.
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Mavis Knight – Since Yesterday
Not released in physical format
2024
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Jowe Head – Since Yesterday
The Other Side Of The Forest original soundtrack
LP
Glass Modern
GLAMLP045
2024
Film soundtrack released on streaming services, plus a 2024 Record Store Day release of 500 LPs on green vinyl.
Also includes versions of songs associated with Strawberry Switchblade and Rose McDowall such as Sunday Morning, As Tears Go By and Godstar.
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The Penkiln Burn Players – Trees and Flowers
Voices From The Galloverse
LP
Penkiln Burn Recordings
PBR 017
2024
Bill Drummond created this album of covers of songs he was involved with in the late 1970s and early 1980s, performed a capella in the style of Gaelic Psalm singing in the Free Church of Scotland.
Limited to 1000 copies, sold only at performances of Hear Hard in Glasgow and Edinburgh in June 2024 and on condition that they’re never sold in shops or online, nor uploaded to streaming services.
nahdoitagain – Go Away
Not released in physical format
2024
Somewhere between a cover and a remix, this samples the 7″ version of Go Away.
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Faux Bear – Since Yesterday
Not released in physical format
2024
Taken at a more leisurely pace than many of his punky tunes, Faux Bear did this US-indie style version of Since Yesterday (with a bit of Sugar’s If I Can’t Change Your Mind added in too)
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