Rose McDowall

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Rose McDowall at the Nocturnal Culture Night Festival, 2015.

Rose McDowall (born October 21, 1959 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish musician who has been playing and singing in various groups and solo since 1978.

Life

Rose McDowall grew up in Glasgow and became passionate about punk in the 1970s. In 1978, at a Ramones concert, she and her boyfriend and future husband Drew McDowall decided to found the punk band The Poems, in which she played drums. In 1981 she founded the synth-pop band Strawberry Switchblade with Jill Bryson and two other musicians . After a peel session on October 4, 1982, the success grew and the band moved to London. There they signed a contract with the major label WEA Records . By concentrating on this project and for personal reasons (in the meantime her daughter Keri was born), there was no more time for The Poems, and they dissolved. In 1986 Strawberry Switchblade also broke up as success fell short of expectations and tensions arose between McDowall and Bryson.

She was a very active member of the London music scene in the 1980s and 1990s. She appears on numerous albums and at concerts of several bands, especially from the industrial and neo-folk scene. It is noteworthy that these guest appearances are often in stark contrast to the pop music of Strawberry Switchblade. In particular, the atonal, abstract noise music of groups like Current 93 and Nurse with Wound is very far differentiated from their chart-oriented music.

In 1993 she formed the band Sorrow with her second husband Robert Lee, which broke up in 2005. She has since left London and lives in the country with her children in England. She professes to believe in fairies and paganism .

music

Rose McDowall was a founding member of four groups: The punk band The Poems (1978-1982), the synth-pop duo Strawberry Switchblade (1981-1986), who were based on the music of the 1960s and 1970s, together with Boyd Rice founded the group Spell (1993) and the Neofolk band Sorrow (1993-2005). Since 2004 she has also been publishing under her own name.

She was (sometimes at times) a permanent member of Current 93 , Death in June , Rosa Mundi and Felt .

She has appeared as a singer , guitarist , drummer , keyboardist or melodica player with the following groups and artists, among others: Psychic TV , Coil , Primal Scream , Sol Invictus , Backworld , Alex Fergusson , Megas , Into a Circle , Nature and Organization , Nurse With Wound and ornamental .

Discography

Strawberry Switchblade

  • Trees and Flowers (1983, EP)
  • Since Yesterday (1984, EP)
  • Let Her Go (1985, EP)
  • Who Knows What Love Is? (1985, EP)
  • Strawberry Switchblade (1985, LP)
  • Jolene (1985, EP)
  • I Can Feel (1986, EP)
  • Since Yesterday (1999, CD)
  • The Platinum Collection (2005, CD)

Rose McDowall

  • Don't Fear the Reaper (1988, EP)
  • Cut with the Cake Knife (2004)
  • Alone (2005, EP)

Spell

  • Big Red Balloon (1993)
  • Seasons in the Sun (1993)

Sorrow

  • Under the Yew Possessed (1993)
  • Sleep Now Forever (1999)
  • The Final Solstice (1999)
  • Let There Be Thorns (2001)

Rosa Mundi

The electropop group existed from 1998 to 1999 and only published individual songs, e.g. T. on samplers, z. But sometimes also in the form of guest appearances on albums by other groups and artists. A selection:

  • The Snowman (1999, on the compilation Greif , as well as on The Final Solstice by Sorrow)
  • Christmas Is Now Drawing Near (1999, on Winter Solstice: North by Coil)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the meantime the band had shrunk to the duo Bryson / McDowall. They were accompanied on this recording by James Kirk from Orange Juice , Shahid Sarwar from The Recognitions , Alex Fergusson and Babs Shores. Source: BBC homepage. Retrieved April 3, 2012 .
  2. ↑ MySpace page. Retrieved April 3, 2012 .
  3. ^ Interview with Heathen Harvest, September 13, 2009. Retrieved April 3, 2012 .
  4. ↑ The year of the dissolution is not exactly known and only derived from the background for the split, see chapter Life .
  5. ↑ See e.g. B. Biography of Michael Sutton on allmusic.com

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SURNAME McDowall, Rose
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow , Scotland