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Forever Is A Long Time: A Festival Celebrating 15 Years Of Night School Records

We’re beyond ecstatic, kind of in a state of non-belief, that we are able to present a weekend of our favourite music ever from a selection of artists from across Night School’s history.

The first artists to be announced are Rose McDowall, Tristwch Y Fenywod, Guttersnipe, Cucina Povera, Amor, Yu Ching, Karl D’Silva and Free Love.

The festival will take place at Fairfield Social Club in Govan, an historic social club with roots in Govan’s shipbuilding history. The club is an active social hub and contains 3 spaces, one of which will be for live music + DJs for the festival, so there’s plenty of space to dance, take a breather, mingle.

We will be revealing more of the line up as we go. For this first announcement, we are making cheaper weekend tickets available, individual day tickets will come later.

I really hope to see you there and thank every single person who’s ever bought anything, said a nice thing, been to a show or shown up in anyway to support the label and each other.

23 March 2026

Strawberry Switchblade: Official Merch, the first in 40 years.

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Today we’re announcing the first official Strawberry Switchblade merch to be made available in 40 years. This is the first drop.

These shirts have been made with the blessing and collaboration of Strawberry Switchblade.

10 years ago when we were planning the release of the 1982 4 Piece Demo, it was always in the plan to make Strawberry Switchblade shirts to accompany it. It’s taken a while…

When I first fell in love with the band as a teenager, like a lot of fans I bought Strawberry Switchblade merch wherever I could find it. These were bootlegged shirts, badges, patches made by enthusiasts, genuine fans and opportunists alike. While we’re not here to judge it always felt a little off that the members of Strawberry Switchblade were never able to represent themselves to their fans in this way. This is the thinking behind designing and making Strawberry Switchblade merch now, in 2026.

For the first drop, there are 3 designs. 2 are new designs based on the 1982 4 Piece Demo release and featuring the original, surviving contact sheet photographs by Peter McArthur. These are designed by Musheto Fernandez in Glasgow. The other design is a reproduction of the classic Since Yesterday 12” single art from later in the band’s career, the most recognisable version of the group, and is probably the most commonly bootlegged image.

These shirts have been made with the blessing and collaboration of Strawberry Switchblade.

These will be available at first on the Night School Bandcamp. There are two shipping locations: UK and USA for optimum shipping rates. 

We will be taking Pre-orders and shipping these at the end of April from both locations.

26 February 2026

Molly Nilsson, USA Tour Dates announced

Molly Nilsson will be on tour in September with Amery and Air Waves. Come say hi.

9/2 Chicago, IL at The Empty Bottle * Tickets

9/5 Cleveland, OH at Happy Dog * Tickets

9/7 Philadelphia, PA at Johnny Brenda’s † Tickets

9/8 Washington, DC at Pearl Street Warehouse * Tickets

9/9 Baltimore, MD at Current Space * Tickets

9/12: Brooklyn, NY at Elsewhere † Tickets

9/14 Boston, MA at Lilypad * 

9/16 San Francisco, CA at Rickshaw Stop † Tickets

9/20 San Diego, CA at Soda Bar † 

9/21 Los Angeles, CA at Echoplex † Tickets

WITH THE SUPPORT OF * Air Waves † Amery

Poster by Boot Foundation 

10 August 2025

Tristwch Y Fenywod UK/European Tour May 2025

Tristwch Y Fenywod are on tour in UK/Europe this May.

MAY 2025

2ndCardiff, Wales: St John’s Church in Canton
3rd – Stroud, UK: Stroud NeoAncients x Weird Walk BUY TICKETS
4th – Salford, UK: Sounds from the Other City
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7thSaint-Aignan, France: New Trad Festival BUY TICKETS
8th – Luxembourg, Luxembourg: Rotondes BUY TICKETS
9th – Munich, Germany: Blitz
10th – Krems, Austria: Donau Festival BUY TICKETS
11th – Bratislava, Slovakia: T3 BUY TICKETS
12th – Prague, Czech Republic: Punctum
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13th – Jena, Germany: Trafo BUY TICKETS
14th – Berlin, Germany: Urban Spree
15th – Duisburg, Germany: Liebfrauenkirche BUY TICKETS
16th – Rotterdam, Netherlands: De Doelen BUY TICKETS
17th – Groninegen, Netherlands: Ver
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18 March 2025

Molly Nilsson: Zenith

We first met Molly Nilsson many moons ago when she was a travelling singer gigging in London, selling her then-new album Follow The Light. Since then it’s been difficult to express exactly how much her songs have come to mean to us. We’ve been honoured to work with her and her own label Dark Skies Association in releasing many other releases but we feel her new album Zenith presents a sea change and contains her best songs to date. The new video for 1995 is below, it’s our song of the year.

You can also preorder Zenith on Ltd White Vinyl/CD at the Night School Shop.

Release date is November 6th as we have experienced a production delay. You can pick up digital copies of Zenith on iTunes but we believe the CD and vinyl are going to be truly special. In the meantime, 1995 is the pop song of the year:

13 October 2015

Rose McDowall’s Cut With The Cake Knife

We are truly excited to present the next stage in our ongoing reissue project with cult singer Rose McDowall. Upon leaving Strawberry Switchblade, Rose embarked on an exciting if tumultuous adventure, recording with friends in Coil, Current 93, Psychic TV and Felt, while enlisting members of The Sugarcubes and Into A Circle for her own debut solo recordings. The Sunflower Demos, later re-named Cut With The Cake Knife, document her head-space at the time, as well as point to what the future was to bring. As such they are the most direct pop songs she ever wrote, still smitten with the bright/melancholic dichotomy she had so perfected with her partner Jill Bryson in Strawberry Switchblade.

Check out this montage of rare stills from the period, all featured on the new edition of Cut With The Cake Knife.

You can now pre-order Rose McDowall’s Cut With The Cake Knife from us on CD and vinyl here.

The pressing is: 500 x Black Vinyl, 500 x Clear/Black Vinyl and limited CD. We are out of the Clear/Black vinyl allocation but you can pre-order from your favourite record store. We recommend MONORAIL MUSIC / ROUGH TRADE / NORMAN Our partners Sacred Bones are pressing the album in America and we recommend picking the LP up from them if you are a U.S. resident. Both versions feature remastering by Brian Pyle (Ensemble Economique), new unearthed photos from the period and extensive new liner notes from Rose.

20 August 2015

Sally Dige Releases Her Debut Album Hard To Please

Sally Dige has announced her long-awaited debut album, Hard To Please. A seductive, pop masterpiece, the long-player consolidates the last 3 years of activity into a cohesive statement. An elusive artist self-portrayed as both a powerful body-mover and vulnerable balladeer, we’ve been obsessed with Hard To Please for months and are extremely excited to present it.

Preorder here on CD and LP

Check out the title track below portrayed in a Lynch-Freudian dream-turned-nightmare…


…and the 2015 update of Losing You, produced in partnership with Dige’s sister Johannah Jørgensen.

1 May 2015

Rose McDowall: Don’t Fear The Reaper

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It’s our unmatched joy to finally get a hold of our Record Store Day release.

Rose McDowall‘s Don’t Fear The Reaper 12″ is sold out from the distributor and we’ll only have some archive copies but we’re extremely proud of it. Reverse-board printing with matt varnish Disco sleeve, mastering by Sean Pennycook and new artwork by Russell Elder based on original photography by Mike Morton. Whatever your thoughts on “Record Store Day” are, this is something really special for us, the first signpost in our ongoing project with Rose. You can buy it from independent record shops around the world from Saturday.. Rose will be playing an exclusive set at Monorail Music in Glasgow on the day.

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14 April 2015

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