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Rose McDowall's Myspace page
Rose's main online spot, the place for news of what she's doing now and next.
Strawberry Switchblade: a Personal history
The original context of the superb essay by Alistair Fitchett featured in the Writings section. Wittily detailing the history of Strawberry Switchblade, written with real enthusiasm and insight. Check out the rest of the Tangents site ('The Home of Unpopular Culture') for a lot more of that sort of thing about people who aren't Strawberry Switchblade.
Strawberry Switchblade Primer
Good basic overview of the Strawberry Switchblade story from The 80s Server, a site dedicated to jocular preservation and celebration of 80s culture
Buy the CD reissue of Strawberry Switchblade from amazon.com
But do check out eBay first as it's often cheaper there
Buy The Platinum Collection CD from amazon.co.uk
The new CD with all the album (shuffled around) and some extra tracks
Buy the CD reissue of The 12" Album from amazon.com
One for completists and the undiscerning only; a handful of clumsy 80s remixes and a couple of lesser songs, all badly remastered to CD. See the interviews to understand how much those who made these cack mixes hate them.
Yahoo discussion group
Email discussion list for Strawberry Switchblade and related topics
Middle Pillar distribution
Great US-based distributors of ethereal, dark, ambient and experimental music. Their catalog has a lot of hard-to-find good stuff, including much of Rose's stuff with Sorrow and Current 93
Current 93
Official site for the band who Rose has worked with on loads of records since Strawberry Switchblade.
Postcard Records on TweeNet
Basic history of the Glasgow label that gave the world Aztec Camera, Orange Juice and Josef K, and the scene that spawned Strawberry Switchblade
Orange Juice
Concise but fact-filled little site about the prime Glaswegian Postcard band who were mentors of Strawberry Switchblade's early days.
The Pastels
Another gang of Strawberry Switchblade's Glasgow cohorts (Strawberry Switchblade sang on The Pastels' single I Wonder Why and sang live with them too), this site is information-rich, although it's not been updated since January 2000
The Pastels on TweeNet
Brief overview of the band's history, plus a 1997 interview with Stephen Pastel
David Motion
The guy who produced the Strawberry Switchblade album. It's also worth checking out his bit on Faber Music's composers page
Tim Pope
Excellent site of the innovative director of the videos for Since Yesterday, Let Her Go and Who Knows What Love Is (as well as great stuff for The Cure, Soft Cell and Bowie). Includes loads of archived videos.