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Miranda Sex Garden links:
FLUX Europa
Huge site devoted to dark music, art, people, politics and culture. Although sadly this site is no longer maintained, there is enough cool stuf there to keep you happy for some time if you have never visited before. FLUX was one of the first major sites to link to Forever Burning. Cheers Rik and best of luck with your music. Have a look at these links in particular:
Miranda Sex Garden Feature from 1996
Halloween Concert 1997 (it was an incredible night - MSG fan Marc Pluckelman hitchhiked all the way from Germany to be there!)
Carnival of Souls release
The socalled official Miranda Sex Garden biography released by SugarDaddy Records (this one did not do them any favours!)
Mute Records
Miranda Sex Garden's first record label, who released Madra, Iris, Suspiria and Fairytales of Slavery. Not much information there, but at least they are still featured. Mute's MSG biography is still available on the old Mute Liberation Technologies site:
Mute LibTech - MSG biography
Mediaeval Baebes links:
Mediaeval Baebes official Web Site
The Mediaeval Baebes were formed in 1996 and consisted of a bunch of girls whom Katharine liked to dress up and sing with on Hampstead Heath. They did a number of gigs around London and it wasn't long before they were noticed by Virgin, who ended up signing them. No doubt they saw potential in the "Mediaeval Spice Girls". After the two albums Salva Nos (no. 1 in the classical charts) and Worldes Blysse they were snapped up by BMG for the extravaganza that was Undrentide produced by John Cale from Velvet Underground (a union loved by some and loathed by others). Then it was back to more traditional territory with The Rose after switching to Nettwerk Records. Then came Miseltoe & Wine and on 18 July 2005 Mirabilis, the latest and believed by many to be the greatest. DO NOT miss an opportunity to see the girls live.
Lilith Fair
Lilith Fair gave The Mediaeval Baebes one of their first major touring opportunities. Lots of info on the site, which promotes women in music.
Minty links:
Minty on MySpace
Minty was a ground breaking performance/pop/rock/electro/art/fetish/weird/wonderful outfit, which revolved around the infamous Leigh Bowery. After his death in 1994 the band carried on with Leigh's wife Nicola as the front woman. On drums: Trevor Sharpe from Miranda Sex Garden. Minty split up after only a few gigs supporting their only full album Open Wide in 1997. Other bands, which were part of the same creative circle as Minty, known as The Offset, are still active. In 2006 Minty re-emerged with a line-up consisting only of Richard Torry,
Matthew Glamorre and Nicola Bowery. They released the hilarious track It's a Game - Part 2, an upbeat version of their old track It's a Game featuring samples from the latest series of Big Brother, mainly from contestants Nicky and Pete! For plenty of info about Leigh Bowery and some great Minty photos, visit:
Leigh Bowery Xtravaganza
The Servant links:
The Servant
After Minty decided to call it a day in 1997, three of its members: Dan Black, Matt Fisher and Trevor Sharpe started a new band called The Servant. Sounding like the more pop-oriented Minty material with a bit of Pulp (before they became boring) and a good portion of funk, the Servant played a number of very successful gigs and early on established themselves as a top live act. They recorded the EP Mathematics in 2000, which was well received by the critics and fans, but did not exactly set the charts on fire. This was followed up in 2001 by another EP With the Invisible, which disappeared into even deeper obscurity than the previous one. Then the band seemingly disappeared. However lo and behold, within the last couple of years The Servant has become somewhat of a cult hit in France and attention has come from other parts of the World after the band was commissioned to supply a track for the movie Sin City (an instrumental version of the track Cells). Unfortunately in spite of being featured on the trailer, the track didn't make it to the final cut of the movie or the original soundtrack. The original version is however available on the album The Servant from early 2004. The band went into the studio again to record their next album
How To Destroy a Relationship in August 2005 (released 2006). They played Glastonbury 2007 and may yet rule the World.
Ben Golomstock links:
He's alive and kicked out a new album in 2006 under the name Stories From The Moon (also the name of the album). It featured collaborations with Katharine Blake and a number of
other usual suspects from the MSG circle of artists. Highly experimental and very exciting, this album has a feel similar to Suspiria, but with a very diverse range of styles.
Several of the tracks are actually Naked Goat tracks, which are blended in with more recent material. Get a copy while they last!
Visit and listen on the MySpace Miranda Sex Garden page.
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