wanted from the sky

Supposed To Understand - Strawberry Switchblade x Pastels

Secrets (Robin Millar Session)- Strawberry Switchblade

Sandhills (Demo)- Strawberry Switchblade

Little River (Peel Session) - Strawberry Switchblade

Junkie Honey - Suicide

Strawberry Switchblade - Sixty Cowboys

fleshwater album trailer song for we’re not here to be loved

woohoo (fleshwater what if mix)

A Tribute to Orville Wilcox - 30 Years War

(yes I know this isn't a strawberry switchblade track I just thought I'd use a nice pic of them to make it more recognizable for anyone who's interested in both bands 🍓🌺🔪) 
A very early demo song from The Poets, an older band that Rose Mcdowall (from Strawberry Switchblade), played the drums for.

#thepoems #thepoemsuntitled #strawberryswitchblade #treesandflowers #sinceyesterday #rosemcdowall #rossmcdowallthepoems

The Poems ~ (untitled song)🍓🔪

trees and flowers live at the venue

taken from the now taken down strawberry switchblade site,which can be viewed via way back machine 

strawberry switchblade - trees and flowers live

Cut The With The Cake Knife was recorded by Rose McDowall in 1988/89 following the break up of her group Strawberry Switchblade. Produced with the aid of several musicians in several studios, the album features songs written for the fabled second Strawberry Switchblade album. More importantly perhaps it showcases the honest, direct and life-affirming songs of one of the greatest unsung songwriters of the modern pop era at a tumultuous time in her career.

Tibet opens the set and could be one of the best pop songs you’ve never heard. The innate sadness of the songs’ content – the loss of a friendship, impending sorrow – is heightened to heart-melting level by McDowall’s pop nous and melodic sensibility. Choruses and hooks are everywhere on Cake Knife, from the outsider take on stadium 80s pop in Wings Of Heaven to the spiraling, ecstatic So Vicious, a glorious anthem that highlights the human fragility in McDowall’s vocal performance, an instrument that has never lost the naïve purity it first exemplified in Strawberry Switchblade’s early 80s recordings. The centerpiece of the album, the title-track, is the greatest Switchblade pop chart hit that never was. Like the veiled melancholy of her former group’s hits, Cut With The Cake Knife hints at a darkness beneath the gloss, a darkness that saw McDowall delve into more esoteric territory with her subsequent recordings and collaborations. Cut With The Cake Knife serves as the bridge between the pop music McDowall had been making with her friends Jill Bryson, Lawrence from Felt and Primal Scream to what became a more extreme, deep sound informed by neo-folk and post industrial music.

Rose McDowall’s role in the canon has always been one of an outsider. Beginning in Glasgow’s East End in the avant proto-noise group The Poems, achieving fame briefly in the 80s and then disappearing into counter-cultural folklore, the emphasis in the internet-age has been skewed towards her image and cultural significance. Unseen to many, her solo work, her groups Sorrow and Spell and her collaborations with a whole host of underground luminaries have still touched lives. As McDowall elucidates: “They're real sad songs, about real life. I've had people come up to me to say I'd connected with them and helped them. I remember a gig in America when we made a whole room cry. It was bizarre. A couple at the front of the stage started crying and then these two boys beside and  suddenly everyone was crying. And I thought, "that's power."

Night School’s issue of Cut With The Cake Knife includes unpublished photographs, extensive sleeve notes from Rose McDowall and 2 bonus tracks culled from the bootleg 7” “Don’t Fear The Reaper.”


ROSE MCDOWALL - Cut With The Cake Knife (from Cut With The Cake Knife LSSN027)

Neon

【ADDITIONAL CAUSE FOR SORROW】- DEADMAN

New Nightmare

Strawberry Switchblade - Secrets (Peel Session)

this day. this rain. by deadman. some nagoya kei yes because there is nothing here on soundcloud

deadman - this day. this rain.

𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 𝔦𝔪 𝔤𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔩𝔢, 𝔟𝔢𝔤𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔴𝔢𝔡? 𝔫𝔬, 𝔪𝔶 𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢. 𝔦𝔪 𝔟𝔬𝔫𝔢: 𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔟𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔦𝔱 𝔰𝔫𝔞𝔭𝔰.
𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔡𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔶 𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔦𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲, 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔯𝔲𝔦𝔫.

Secrets (Robin Millar Session)- Strawberry Switchblade

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