Lottery Funded Jazz Jizz....
Don't worry...The Nitty Gritty details are censored for this site Mr Golden Balls..
(Don't want people going there and killing your family with a Scythe,do we..?)
Ha,ha,ha...no indeed we do not.
After all The Isle Of Wight is NOT a Jersey children's home is it..?
So anyway,Charlie Parker, I notice on your entry/career description...
"Composer"...?
Com-pos-er...
Com-poseur...
That's nice for you.
No..That IS nice.
For...
You...
After that Isle Of Wight unpleasantness...
It's about time you caught a break..
So what have you "composed" (if that is the correct way of saying it,Dizzy?) recently..
We (the humble public) might have heard..
Anywhere...?
At all...?
Take your time..
(in fact "compose" yourself....oh I really shouldn't..I am such a naughty one!)
Just a name or location will do...?
A Year..?
A Nearby Bus Stop..?
Street name...?
Anything..?
Which backs up the "claim" to be called..
Mr 'High And Mighty' Composer..
cough.
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Anyway...
THESE are the latest lies from Wendy's mouth..
March 2008.
WENDY James took the media by storm when she fronted the late 1980s pop band Transvision Vamp.
Now she's coming back to Brighton from her New York home with her band Racine, who released second album Racine 2 last year.
She's come a long way since the days of I Want Your Love and Baby I Don't Care and produced and mixed Racine 2, as well as providing the vocals.
Nikki Jeffery caught up with her to preview the gig, at Brighton's Concorde2 on March 18, at 7.30pm.
N: How do you feel about going back to your Brighton roots - where it all started? You must have good and bad memories....
W: I only have good memories of my time in Brighton… I was a young teenager and the world was opening up for me… everything about Brighton was exciting.
I met Nick Christian Sayer of course, the guitarist of TVV, we started making our Demos in his bedsit and that consumed our days and nights. I remember signing on the dole, and collecting my dole check and feeling like we had enough money to by a beer in a local pub… and I remember thinking how grown up it all was!
I remember going to the antique markets and vintage clothing stores. I remember walking along the beachfront of course... sometimes late at night, after partying, sometimes just peacefully on a Sunday or mid-week afternoon.
My life was beginning, that's how I remember Brighton. The world was full of possibilities, and Nick and I made our own bubble and lived in it, working, working, working towards to day that we would have our music ready for the world.
We dreamt a lot, listened to Bob Dylan and I learned so much… Brighton was my bohemian Debutante Ball! It all looked like Quadropenia to me... and i had something of the Jimmy about me...
N: You must've played Concorde before. What do you think of the venue?
W: I have never played Concorde… no, it's all brand new to me…
N: What can the audience expect from the gig? Is the line-up mostly from Racine 2 or a mix?
W: The live band is the band that played on the recording of RACINE 2, with the exception of the guitarist... Henric Strahl who lives in Sweden… and since we recorded RACINE 2 I was introduced to Dee Dee Ross, who just blows me away with his playing… but we'll all reunite with Henric when we get to Sweden… he'll be in the front row for sure!
It's a very bonded thing, you know, when you've intensely recorded work together or played gigs together… you stay blood brothers somehow… an un-written code for life.
N: Tell me about Racine. How did the band come about? Who's involved?
How would you describe your sound?
W: The line-up is myself on Vox and Guitar, Dee Dee on Lead Guitar, James "Hound Dog" Meynell on Bass, Goldenboy on Keys and Ray Sullivan on Drums. We're a mixture of NY and UK. I guess we're garage rock 'n' roll… in the v
ein of MC5 perhaps, the Stooges… the Patti Smith Group… but I often metaphorically wander down the Mississippi Delta too… and into Paris for some French pop, Jamaica for some roots-reggae, NY Five Boroughs for some hip hop and back to Detroit for that Motor City sound…
N: Where else will the tour take you?
W: We're going to pretty much every country in Scandinavia and EUR… it's a lot of countries, most days a different country… but then, European Mainland is pretty easy to transit, nothing is really more than 2.5 hours away on a plane.
N: Any plans for when it finishes?
W: When the Europe leg closes out, we will take a couple of weeks off and then start up in Canada and move down through US… and then in summer – onto the festival circuit… and at SOME point, go into a recording studio and lay down RACINE 3
N: And now to take you back a bit....What was it like being such a sex symbol at so young an age and becoming such a media target? I remember you were everywhere! You seemed to be pushed into saying things to make headlines for them.
W: Well, I can only see it from my point of view, which was one that met most everything with curiosity and excitement… I was running the streets of West London at a pretty young age… and fame came early, so it was all aboard the freight train really… full steam ahead.
N: And what was it like when all that ended? Disappointing to be out of the limelight or a relief or a bit of both?
W: I think Transvision Vamp maintained that perfect arc of success that pop bands, by nature, have. We rose, we shone, we fell… quite beautiful really… and for my part, I always have just viewed the day I am in as the one that matters… so, nothing really every struck me as radical change of situation… just one thing leading to another.
N: What happened to finish Transvision Vamp? Why did MCA pull the final album? Was that the end or did the band just reach its natural end?
W: That is actually incorrect – the 3rd TVV record "Little Magnets Versus The Bubble Of Babble" did come out, but it was released late, AFTER we had decided to split up, whilst we were on an American tour… MCA UK (only) had indeed questioned the heavier sound of the record, but elsewhere, in particular US – it was released on schedule and in US it did better than previous albums.. in US we were still building.
N: What did you do between Transvision and Racine? I read you have been learning to play various instruments and the production side.
W: Exactly… a defining moment was when I was looking at a tour manager's schedule for my upcoming promotion of the Elvis Costello record, and it was a good nine months of planning, and I suddenly and definitively knew – I would cancel everything and just get back to London and start writing my own songs. I imposed no time limit on myself, rather , I prioritised the process of learning and being inspired… by movies, by authors, by music… I watched Antonioni, I watched Godard, I read Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe, I listend to the Chess Records catalogue... I started to find my own voice. And pretty soon, I began picking up my guitar, and writing some lyrics, and then gradually building up my own repetoire, which became eventually the RACINE NO.1 DEMOS… which accompany now, much to my delight, the European release of RACINE 2 as a double CD. I always wanted the demos to come out, so - that is a wish fulfilled.
N: Do you feel like a different person now from the Wendy James of Transvision Vamp?
W: I'm thinner! My cheekbones are sharper, my guitar playing is better… um… I own less things, but what I do own is more valuable to me… I like beer… I didn't before, I do now.
Mmm… Sapporo in particular.
N: If you could go back and change anything, would you?
W: I dunno, maybe I would go cash some of those checks I never noticed… but seriously… no. I wouldn't change a thing, I do not, nor have I ever lived looking back over my shoulder, I am always facing forward.
N: What have been the highlights of your career so far?
W: George Harrison told me I was special once… that meant a lot…
N: And how is life in NY? Do you think you will ever return to the UK to live?
W: I have no idea where I will spend all my life… I am nomadic by nature. NYC has felt more like home than anywhere else I have been, I am happy here… the city breathes into me. Who knows? Maybe South America, maybe Sicily, maybe Capri, maybe Corsica… maybe Mexico… I have NO idea.
(p) The Litte Hampton Gazette 2008
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See ya.
"look into my FUCKING eyes..!"
Sorry about the "red eye"...but I do LIKE the nails now...good girl!
See? What did I tell ya....
This is the new Marc Jacobs "Victoria Beckham" campaign....
And this is Victoria in a Marc Jacobs bag......
and yes so is this.....( I am NOT joking...this is a real photo from Marc Jacobs..)
