Immensely prolific, Rose's profile has nevertheless remained somewhat below the radar as her vocals have generally been on other people's records and shows. Strawberry Switchblade - Top Of The Pops 24-01-1985 - YouTube In a interview published on the Strawberry Switchblade website, the band described how they were discovered by Kid Jensen and John Peel: INTERVIEWER: So how did you get signed? Get the Strawberry Switchblade Setlist of the concert at David Jensen BBC Studios Session, London, England on October 3, 1982 and other Strawberry Switchblade Setlists for … JILL BRYSON:You know, it was just weird, the whole thing was SO weird. Yes, that's where all my songs come from; they come from growing up. "That's where I came from; my husband of the time, Drew McDowall, worked with Coil for many years, and is still working now. If Switchblade Symphony was a distored mirror, Strawberry Switchblade would be the twisted reflection. It became their only major hit. "We won't put up with racism, we won't put up with sexism, we won't put up with ageism; we won't put up with any of that crap," she says. She formed another duo, with ex … It was like, this is mental! I'd had a close friend who had killed himself, jumping in front of a train, and lots of weird things. Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus. But I'd been on Top Of The Pops and everything, so it wasn't like I was a stray or like Little Red Riding Hood walking into the woods with all the wolves around her; it was probably the other way around! I wasn't very settled, let's say. Rose enthuses. James Kirk from Orange Juice played bass and we had a guy called Shaheed Sarwar, who we all called Shaheed StarWars, played drums. Track 1 to 11 are the original LP Strawberry Switchblade Tracks 12 & 18 from the single Let Her Go Track 13 from the single Who Knows What Love Is? But obviously it wasn't going to be a band because everybody had their own thing. "I just turned round to Drew and said if they can do it, we can do it!" I didn't enjoy that as much as it might have seemed. Strawberry Switchblade: Trees And Flowers ‎ (7", W/Lbl) Ninety-Two Happy Customers: Haps 001: UK: 1983: Sell This Version: Recommendations Reviews Add Review. "Supporting the Mary Chain was amazing!" “Rose McDowall’s career has followed a typically cult-hero path; like Alex Chilton, she went from pop star to troubled recluse in the blink of an eye,” wrote paul Lester for The … "I was always a creative person; I always loved singing. We'd been playing a few gigs in Glasgow and people obviously thought of it as a weirdo band of its time and place. For me it's not about money, it's not about fame: it's definitely not about that, being in the limelight. In the nineties Rose formed Spell with controversial noise musician and author Boyd Rice, exploring their shared love of 1960s bubblegum pop. I wasn't in the best place at that particular point. "My dad got hit over the head with an axe, twice, and he was rushed to hospital," she says. In the years following Strawberry Switchblade's split Rose wrote and recorded the songs that are being reissued this month as Cut With The Cake Knife. No, he just phoned my house - not even getting the producer of the show to phone - and said 'Hi, this is John Peel, do you want to do a session?' Strawberry Switchblade - Peel Session 1985, 1. "Oh thanks," Rose laughs. In 1986, the group split with Rose McDowall continuing playing music in neofolk bands while Jill Bryson in 2013 returned to writing music after a gap of 30 years in a band called The Shapists with her daughter Jessie Frost. "When punk happened it just opened the gates for me to go into adulthood," she says. 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