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the same thing, but it’s horrible when you have to have these arguments about album covers. The record company wanted to tame us a bit.’
In the end, Strawberry Switchblade’s moment in the chart sun was brief. They released one self-titled album and had a minor hit with their cover of Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ (more perky sadness) before the duo split on bad terms in 1986. McDowall disappeared from the pop spotlight but carried on cultivating her love of psychedelia and pagan folk. Her pure, plaintive guest vocals for industrial and doom folk groups Coil, Current 93 and Death in June and a handful of releases by her post-Switchblade bands Spell and Sorrow have garnered her a cult following. Michael Kasparis of Night School Records is one of those acolytes, reckoning McDowall’s music career to be worthy of formal reappraisal, starting with a June reissue [date tbc] of her solo album Cut with the Cake Knife. ‘I don’t care about the 25th Bob Dylan box set or the umpteenth repackaging of some rich man’s seminal mega-bucks album but the i rst time I heard ‘Tibet’ from Cut With the Cake Knife I felt like I could l y,’ he rhapsodises.
As for McDowall, she is far from i nished. ‘It’s my job to bring misery to the world,’ she says breezily. ‘Even my happy songs have got sad lyrics.’
More details of Night School and Rose McDowall’s archival project will be announced shortly. Sat 18 Apr (Record Store Day 2015) sees an ofi cial release of the unapproved 12” single, a cover of Blue Öyster Cult’s Don’t Fear The Reaper. McDowall will also be headlining Monorail’s RSD celebrations in Glasgow.