rocknroll_n_blues_queens | The English Vocalist, lyricist, artist and writer

KatieJane Garside is a ridiculously talented British vocalist and songwriter.

Her career started off in the noise rock 90's band Daisy Chainsaw:

Daisy Chainsaw - Love Your Money (promo video)

Daisy Chainsaw - Dog With Sharper Teeth

She left them after their first album in 1993, but in 1999 formed the band QueenAdreena with the guitarist from Daisy Chain, Crisipin Gray

Medicine Jar(another edition) - Queenadreena

Queen Adreena-FM Doll

Queen Adreena pretty - like drugs

At some point they broke up or at least went on hiatus, and she released her own album Lalleshwari/Lullabies in a Glasswilderness in 2006

Katie Jane Garside - Darkangel

and then she went and formed the band Ruby Throat:

Ruby Throat - Interview with Katiejane Garide - Part I.

Ruby Throat - Interview with Katiejane Garide - Part I.

ruby throat-in the arms of flowers

KatieJane Garside blog

KatieJane Garside Website

Facebook

Woom Gallery: KatieJane Garside

garsidefans LJ fan comm.

Queen Adreena - Katie Jane Garside:'...grasp that fully with both hands and ... fuck it to death...'

Random Consciousness: You're about two thirds of the way through your tour, how's it been for you? Have there been any specific high or low points?

Katie Jane Garside: In a sense for me, I'm kind of the eye of the storm. I can stay really still in the middle while it whips around me, There's always a wave to it, life, death, life, all the time, but I get to stay really still in the middle.

RC: Some bands find touring exhausting and really stressful, while others just absolutely live for it. Which category would you say Queen Adreena fits into?

KJG: Of course I love it, the world's revolving around me at that moment (she laughs). I am the centre of the fucking universe, who wouldn't like that? But no, it can get really scary sometimes. You can only go to bed with yourself and wake up with yourself and being the centre of the universe, you can play God and then you're the only thing that exists and everything else is a creation out of your imagination and you're completely isolated. There's no way to get off, out, in or away, so it's both, it's all of it.

RC: You mention things being scary, do you ever find your fans a little scary? How do you view them?

KJG: I'm going to be so contrary for you, but I've got my cloak of invisibility so a lot of the time things can't touch me. I learn to take absolutely no responsibility for the way I'm received, because I'm not an evangelist, I'm not a preacher, I'm not telling anyone how to be or how it's done, I'm just asking questions the whole time. I don't pretend to have any answers. Sometimes, some people seem to beg for physical contact and other than through what I do, in terms of music or on stage, I'm never prepared to give that. I think I will always run away from clutching hands.MORE

INTERVIEW - Katie Jane Garside of Ruby Throat

As a motley of artists, we always cheer for those who can follow the muse without being trampled under the machine. What can you tell us about the early days? Where did you hone your chops before finding the limelight and what inspired you to dive into music field?

i spent my formative years living on a 33ft boat and sailing around the world with my family, as a 12 year old i did the 'dogwatch' alone, 2am to 6am, with infinity above me and six miles of ocean below, the incomprehensible vastness insist that child acknowledge an inner world, this inner world is not ephemeral, it is highly coloured and clearly defined, populated by any ever changing cast, my so called 'muse' is not separate from me, it is 'me' and its all i have, i have done some terrible things to her but nevertheless she has not deserted me, goes quiet sometimes to escape noise but always there

Beyond music, have you stretched into any other genres; film, illustration, photography? the ongoing genre i suppose is the effort to keep skin stretched about the rib cage involving an evolving body of evidence, lost ends, new beginnings, a cross fertilization, hybrids and monsters, a kind of paper trail though it isn't linear, i make marks and cave paintings, skin movies on mobile phones and cuts in the fabric that i might see through

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I read about how you met Chris performing in the Tube. Now, I'm sure you've seen your fair share of organ grinders, out of work magicians, and dancing monkeys, so what was Chris doing that made you stop and take notice? Was it an easy friendship?

this man's imperative brings the wild ocean of the south pacific to the london underground, i could do nothing but immerse and fall in love

He's definitely been a good influence. After seeing The Ventriloquist, I'm astounded at the level of craftsmanship and the amount of work that went into constructing not just the music, but the art and the detail of the whole experience. How did that whole idea get started, and what inspired you to push it beyond being a typical CD once the music was recorded?

there is a tedious truism applicable: our work is more than the sum of its parts, we are both always astounded at what makes itself known through our application, if you open yourself up to the work it informs you there, is no 'end game', i am not a visionary, i let go and ask that 'it' realize itself through me, an inbreath/wingspan so huge, these are just a tiny handful of threads that make their way back throughMORE

The Scream of the Butterfly

Artist, musician, poet. Katie Jane Garside can make a claim to all three, and yet remains completely anonymous to most.

Words like Queenadreena, Daisy Chainsaw, Ruby Throat or Woom will mean nothing, but for those who are familiar with Garside’s incredibly diverse output, she represents a hidden and fragile treasure.

Her life story reads like a blend of fact, fiction and fairy-tale. It can be difficult to separate the myth that time and an air of mystery has wrapped around her like a vine.

Although sometimes appearing ill at ease, she’s not averse to giving interviews, but is inexplicably seldom questioned by the mainstream media. Instead her interrogators seem, in the main, to have been fans. Whether they have been so dumbfounded by her presence to be rendered mute, or just hold her in such esteem that to veer off the trodden path and into the realm of intimacy is impossible, the questions put to her have tended to be slight – largely focusing on her music and rarely stripping away the outer veneer.MORE