Fluffy (band)

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Fluffy
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genre(s)	Punk rock
Years active	1994– 1998
Label(s)	Parkway The Enclave
Associated acts	Harlow Jack Off Jill Thee Heavenly Music Association Darling
Members
Amanda E Rootes Bridgette Jones Helen Storer Angie Adams
Former members
Pandora Ormsby-Gore

Fluffy were an all female punk band from London.

1 Origins
2 Descendants
3 Links
4 References

[edit] Origins

The band formed in 1994 after classmates, Amanda Rootes and Angie Adams were inspired by a jazz-blues Singer in one of Old Compton Street's gay cafes. They were attending college in London at the time, studying Art and Design. Guitarist Bridgette Jones did her A levels before joining and the band began rehearsing in Amanda's living room with poor quaility amps and no microphone. Fluffy's original bassist Pandora Ormsby-Gore, a member of one of London's most celebrated demimonde families completed the initial picture. Ormsby-Gore's connections ensured the band to be labeled "posh" by the royals-obsessed, class-conscious British tabloids. Pandora left the band to become an actress, changing her name to Pandora Colin. Shortly after Helen Storer joined completing the line-up, the band began recording. ^[1]

Fluffy's first singles Hypersonic and Husband (both produced by Mal Campbell and Tony Wilson from Freaks of Desire) were released in 1995. Although Fluffy were sorted for England through Parkway Records, it wasn't until A&R man Tom Zutaut, (known for signing The Stone Roses and Guns N Roses when he worked for Geffen Records and having the Nymphs' singer Inger Lorre urinate on his desk) signed them to a two-album, $500,000 deal with The Enclave, that Fluffy gained world wide notoriety. The band appeared on the NME's yearly bratbus tour in 1996. The band's debut album Black Eye was released in 1996 and the band got some prestigious support slots supporting the Foo Fighters and The Sex Pistols.

The band were brief press darlings in 1995 and 1996 and were often featured in NME most memorably in the NME christmas pub crawl / drinking competition issue in which vocalist Amanda E Rootes was sick.

The band ceased to exist once founding member Amanda E Rootes and bassist Helen Storer moved to Los Angeles in 1998.

[edit] Descendants

Amanda went on to form Harlow, who participated in the VH1 reality TV show Bands on the Run.
Helen joined Jack Off Jill for a while, but is now in Thee Heavenly Music Association, where she is writing, singing and playing guitar.
Angie and Bridget have formed an all girl-band called Darling. They are based in London and Angie is on vocals.