NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Strawberry Switchblade on 15 January 2021. Strawberry Switchblade has been played over 100 times on NTS, first on 23 January 2015. Strawberry Switchblade's music has been featured on 88 episodes.

Strawberry Switchblade was a new wave duo from Glasgow, Scotland, UK, formed in 1981 by Rose McDowall and Jill Bryson.

Bonded during the Glasgow punk scene of the late 1970s, first as friends, then as bandmates. With their distinctive style (garish colours, polka-dots and a slight geisha influence) already intact they formed Strawberry Switchblade (named after a never-released Orange Juice song and quickly aborted fanzine) in the…