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Unreleased cassette recordings of rehearsals and unfinished songs.

Rehearsal for BBC sessions, September 1982

Rose and Jill on guitars, vocals and xylophone, with a drum machine, and James Kirk from Orange Juice on bass.

The David Jensen session was recorded 3 October 1982. The John Peel session was recorded the next day, 4 October 1982.

James Kirk was only credited on the Peel session but it’s notable that he’s rehearsing one from each – Trees and Flowers appeared on the Peel session, By The Sea on the Jensen one.

By The Sea

Trees and Flowers

Play both tracks on YouTube:

Jill’s two lalala demos of Let Her Go

Home tape of Jill Bryson practicing Let Her Go, singing ‘lalala’ for the vocal line as presumably it didn’t have proper lyrics yet.

Let Her Go (unplugged electric demo)

Let Her Go (acoustic demo)

Play the unplugged electric demo on YouTube:

Play the acoustic demo on YouTube:

Three unfinished songs, date unknown

Three unreleased songs recorded at home. These are very rough demos never intended for commercial release, but they nonetheless have plenty of the Strawberry Switchblade delicate melancholic beauty.

The first features Rose on guitar and voice, showing the song to Jill. The other two feature both of them, and have loads of the gorgeous trademark harmonies.

It’s not clear when these tracks were recorded.

Untitled Rose song

Sandhills

Untitled song

Play all three unfinished tracks on YouTube:

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