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Strawberry Switchblade 💞💘💓💗💕

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Strawberry Switchblade, Japan Tour, 1985.

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💓 Strawberry Switchblade 💓

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Strawberry Switchblade's 1985 Subaru Rex 'Advert' Single "Ecstasy"

Rose On "Ecstasy / I Can Feel" -

ROSE: They're nightmares. Ecstasy was basically an advert for something, I can't remember what it was now.

Subaru cars.

ROSE: I thought that was the one they put Since Yesterday over. But it could have been. They used Since Yesterday just as it was over a car advert. Ecstasy, they called it 'Apple'.

'Ecstasy (Apple Of My Eye)'.

ROSE: 'Apple of My Eye'? Where did that come from? It was nothing to do with me. The song was called Ecstasy, that was part of the joke of it. They don't know what I'm talking about but I know what I'm talking about; some people will know, some people won't know.

How did you end up doing that? Did you understand what it was like?

ROSE: It was a nightmare, that period. We did another stupid jingle for Shock Waves hairspray, and that was fucking atrocious as well. With Ecstasy they actually sent us the lyrics, and asked us to write the music for it. I said I'm not singing those lyrics. So I rewrote the lyrics which were just silly, but whatever. We just made a few bad mistakes at the end of our career, basically. Mostly Balfey pushed from behind, dollar signs popping up in his eyes. All that money that we didn't really see from those adverts. You get paid for doing stuff like that.

Of course, why else would you do it?

ROSE: Exactly. And when I saw the advert I just thought [incredulous wince]. It's got these Japanese girls sprawled over the car like in those horrible car magazines where they have a dolly bird. It was like, oh Jesus, another nail in the coffin.

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1966's "Daisies" + Strawberry Switchblade, two of my obsessions...

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🌹 Current 93 🌹

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🌹 Strawberry Switchblade 🌹

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🌹 Strawberry Switchblade 🌹

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Rose McDowall & The Poems, late 70s...

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Rose McDowall & Jill Bryson + friends, 70's punk dayz!

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Warhol Superstars Joe Dallesandro & Andrea "Whips" Feldman in 1972's "Heat"...

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Jill Bryson of Strawberry Switchblade and Krisha Kolasheski who did most of the Postcard records artwork. Photo by Peter McArthur, early 1980’s.

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