| KatieJane Garside | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | July 8, 1968 |
| Origin | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Alternative rock, punk, alternative metal, folk noir, experimental music |
| Occupations | Vocalist, lyricist, visual artist |
| Associated acts | Daisy Chainsaw Test Department Queenadreena Lalleshwari Ruby Throat |
KatieJane (Katrina Jane) Garside (born July 8, 1968) is an English vocalist, lyricist, artist and writer who fronted the first incarnation of the '90s noise rock band Daisy Chainsaw and now fronts Queen Adreena, an independent rock band from London.
She has also worked in performance art, film and photography. In late 2007, her exhibition Darling, they've found the body was shown at WOOM in Birmingham.[1] She has previously exhibited, in 2005, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; Queen Adreena also recorded their first live album there (Live at the ICA (2005)).
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Little is known of Garside's life before her work in music. Garside has said that her parents "grew up all over the world", and that up until she was 17, she also live in various countries with them.[2] Garside said: "I was born there [in England], I have English parents who lived all over the world... but I'm not really English, other than by name."[2] Garside formed Daisy Chainsaw in 1989 after responding to an ad in a newspaper by guitarist Crispin Gray.[3] Bassist Richard Adams joined the band, along with Canadian drummer Vince Johnson. The group was well known for its wild stage performances, featuring Garside drilling doll heads onstage and drinking from baby bottles.[3] Garside's look was described as a "Gothic street urchin image, complete with dead flowers meshed into her dreadlocked hair".[3]
The band released Eleventeen in 1992, which would be their only full-length album before Garside left the band in 1993. The album spawned "Love Your Money", which was the band's most popular single; they performed the song live on British television show The Word in 1992. "Love Your Money" reached number 26 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1992.[4]
The band toured the United Kingdom with Hole and Mudhoney to promote the album prior to its release. Hole frontwoman Courtney Love allegedly cited Garside as one of the "first true riot grrls" in 1991;[5][6] Garside never associated herself with the movement, which was based in the Pacific Northwest. Courtney Love, who initially advocated the movement, distanced herself from it in the following years.
After Garside left Daisy Chainsaw, she disappeared from the public eye and music scene. Due to her manic onstage histrionics and bizarre behavior in interviews, rumours circulated that Garside had fallen into mental illness.[3] Despite the rumors, Garside was given a credit in the liner notes of the 1993 Frostbite album, Second Coming.
Garside reportedly moved to a house (Rigg Beck) in the Lake District,[7] and had no intentions of returning to music until the late 1990s when former guitarist Crisipin Gray contacted her. In 1999, Queen Adreena was formed. The band released several albums over the course of the 2000s.
Garside's solo work includes a collection of home recordings called Lalleshwari / Lullabies in a Glasswilderness released in 2006. Complementing this release was a collection of short films made by Katiejane.
Garside also co-created the comic book Indigo Vertigo with artist Daniel Schaffer. Another comic book produced by Garside with Daniel Schaffer is "Lesions in the Brain".
Most recently, KatieJane is collaborating with Chris Whittingham in the band Ruby Throat, a more ethereal, vocal based project. They have released two albums to date. There has been no update on her journal, website or Myspace for a long time so any current projects are unknown.
Her sister, Melanie Garside, also has a career in music, and was briefly the bass player for Queen Adreena.
Little is known about Garside aside from her professional life; she has described herself as a recluse. "I could be anywhere, really, and it wouldn't make a lot of difference, so I don't know necessarily that much about the country that I was born in and that I've lived in,"[2] she said in 2008. In 1993, after leaving Daisy Chainsaw, rumours circulated that Garside had fallen into mental illness. Garside reportedly moved to a house in the Lake District[7] and was unheard of until 1999 when she formed Queen Adreena.