Strawberry Fair - Where is Alex Taylor Now?

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Strawberry Fair - Where is Alex Taylor Now?

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Hey, this is Vu on the road. I have the following pre-written offline on my trusty laptop and I'm hoping to get an internet connection to upload the content before I leave for home (I won't be back until Tuesday).

Anyway, a while back, I was talking to a woman in Sweden called My. She was trying to get a sense of the type of music I was listening to. And I told her, I liked the Lucksmiths and Belle & Sebastian. So she told me that I had liked "_________" (a Swedish word). I asked her what that meant.

She paused for a moment. Then she answered, it's roughly translated to "sissy music". I laughed at this term. Since then, whenever anyone asks me what type of music I listen to, I tell them sissy music.

So. She introduced this band called Strawberry Fair to me. I downloaded a few songs from their website. Of course, I instantly fell in love with it.

Strawberry Fair, as I found out in my question is actually not a real band, but the stage name for Jenny Franzén.

Since I couldn't read Swedish (when I was trying to do research), I had to contact her:

1. Was "Where is Alex Taylor Now?" ever released on CD?
No, it was just released as an mp3. My friend and I was talking about what happened the Shop Assistants singer and then she thought that I could do a song about it, like the Fat Tulips song "Where's Claire Grogan Now", and then I made a mp3 of it and shared it on Soulseek. But that was four years ago.

2. Is the band broken up?
No, it's just me, Jenny, who is Strawberry Fair. I play everything myself on the recordings and then several people have played with me live (members from other Swedish popbands like Funday Mornings, Tidy-Ups and Everyday Mistakes), though I actually have a live band now. I'm going to release an EP soon with four new songs, though it's a bit different from "Where's Alex Taylor" and the old songs. I don't know if you have heard it, but you can hear some songs on MySpace.

So, I'm offline right now so I can't hear the new songs. Perhaps some of you guys can tell me if it's really good. I'm almost certain it'll be excellent.

PS, this is too cute, but her email address' domain name is actually a Sanrio character, My Melody. I do not need to tell you that I had a Hello Kitty address as well, but I haven't used that email in a very long time.

Update: Since I'm finally home, I can do a little research on whatever happened to Alex Taylor. She joined the Shop Assistants band in 1985 and shortly left them in 1987 to join The Motorcycle Boy. According to discographies, it looks like the last time anyone's seen Alex Taylor was in 1990 with Here She Comes and One Note Jam.

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