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1. This band were from Sunderland (NOT Newcastle!) and hit the big time while still in their teens. They did two albums and split up onstage, and many of their songs were about clubbing. They were Lauren Laverne, Marie du Santiago, Emmy-Kate Montrose and Johnny X, but what was the name of the band?

Answer: Kenickie

Kenickie formed when Lauren, Emmy-Kate and Marie were in college, still in their teens; they enlisted Lauren's older brother Pete, aka Johnny X, on drums. They signed to indie label Slampt in 1995 (the song 'Punka' is thought to be a dig at Slampt and other indie labels), before moving to EMIDisc the following year; their first performance on 'Top of the Pops' was 'In Your Car' in 1997.

Their second and final album, 'Get In', sold poorly, despite good reviews (and 'I Would Fix You', incidentally, is one of my favourite songs by them) and the band split onstage at the end of a London gig in October 1998. Lauren Laverne went on to become a TV and radio presenter, while Johnny X produced other bands and Marie and Emmy-Kate formed Rosita; Marie later got a job at Sunderland University Students' Union and Emmy-Kate did a Sociology degree.

2. This band are from Canada - London, Ontario, to be precise - and attracted a lot of attention in the early '00s for being that rarest of beasts, an all-female nu-metal band. Their debut album was 'Spit' and over the years, they've opted for more of a death metal sound. They've got through various bassists and guitarists over the years but the two constants have been the Lander sisters, singer/guitarist Morgan and drummer Mercedes. Who am I talking about?

Answer: Kittie

Kittie were formed after Mercedes Lander met guitarist Fallon Bowman in a gym class and jammed together; Morgan later joined as a singer and second guitarist, and bassist Tanya Candler completed the line-up, before being replaced by Talena Atfield. Their first album 'Spit' was standard nu-metal fare, with plenty of double bass pedals and downtuned guitars, but from their second album 'Oracle' onwards, Kittie switched to a heavier sound.

After both Bowman and Atfield left, Kittie went through various musicians, including guitarists Tara McLeod, Lisa Marx and Jeff (who was also a roadie) and bassists Trish Doan (who sadly died in 2017 as a result of anorexia), Ivy Vujic and Jennifer Arroyo.

In 2014, to celebrate the band's 20th anniversary, both the current and former members teamed up to crowdfund a documentary and biography. Mercedes also played with Candler in the Alcohollys, while Morgan joined Karkaos in 2019.

3. This band were an American band, from Los Angeles. Sometimes associated with Riot Grrl, they were proud feminists who deliberately looked scruffy to avoid being sexualised, and their signature song was 'Pretend We're Dead'. They were Donita Sparks, Suzi Gardner, Jennifer Finch and Dee Plakas. They were called Camel Lips in John Waters' 'Serial Mom', but what was the band's real name?

Answer: L7

L7 were formed by singer/guitarist Donita Sparks and guitarist Suzi Gardener in 1985. They deliberately chose a gender ambiguous name ('L7' is slang for 'square', an uncool person). Pink-haired bassist Jennifer Finch was briefly in a band with Courtney Love and Kat Bjelland called Pagan Babies (aka Sugar Babydoll), along with Janis Tanaka, who would temporarily replace her in L7. L7 founded Rock for Choice, which raised money for pro-choice causes through rock concerts, and Sparks courted controversy when she threw her used tampon into the audience at the 1992 Reading Festival in response to the crowd throwing mud at the band. If you've seen the John Waters movie 'Serial Mom', you might recall them playing a song called 'Gas Chamber' at a gig where the murderous heroine Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) sets her son's friend Scotty on fire.

4. This surreal band are one of the more obscure entries on the list, and were based in London (not Tunisia!) They were close friends with the Cardiacs, whose singer Tim Smith produced their album 'Bodies', and two of them later returned the favour by singing back-up with the Cardiacs. They were Claire Lemmon, Gayl Houghton, Melanie Woods and (to a lesser extent) Lee Howton, and their songs included 'Wormee', 'Big Yellow Taxidermist' and 'Slitty Gap'. Who am I talking about here?

Answer: Sidi Bou Said

Named for a town in Tunisia famous for its blue and white architecture, Sidi Bou Said released their debut album 'Broooch' in 1993. Like their friends the Cardiacs, their lyrics were often surreal, and also had a fascination with the human body. The core members were singer/guitarist Claire Lemmon, bassist Gayl Houghton and singer/drummer Melanie Woods, and second guitarist Lee Howton was also briefly a member. Both Lemmon and Woods played with the Cardiacs in the '00s.

They were one of several bands featured on the 2010 Tim Smith/Cardiacs tribute album 'Leader of the Starry Skies: A Loyal Companion'; all the bands on it either had members who had performed with the Cardiacs, or were influenced by them in some way. Sidi Bou Said covered 'Victory Egg' from the reissued version of 'A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window' (which is how I discovered them).

Unfortunately, their albums are out of print and quite hard to come by, but their songs can be found on Youtube.

5. This band were from Rhode Island, USA, although one of their singers was born down south in Georgia. They were college radio favourites and the first American band to sign to the 4AD label. The longest-running band members were singer/guitarist and songwriter Kristin Hersh and drummer David Narcizo, and past members include bassist Leslie Langston and singer/guitarist Tanya Donnelly, Hersh's stepsister, who became pretty famous in her own right. Which band is this?

Answer: Throwing Muses

While Britain had Sidi Bou Said, the USA had the far more famous Throwing Muses, who had a similar Pixies-esque sound with changing dynamics and complex time signatures. They were formed by Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donnelly, with their original bassist and drummer replaced by Leslie Langston (replaced by Fred Abong in 1990) and David Narcizo (who had only played on marching band drums, without cymbals). Actress Betty Hutton, who knew Hersh at college, was a fan of the band.

Hersh wrote a memoir, 'Rat Girl' (or 'Paradoxical Undressing' for British readers) about her struggles with mental illness and songwriting; she suffered a double concussion after being hit by a car and constantly heard sounds as a result.

She has also made several solo albums and collaborated with Michael Stipe on the song 'Your Ghost'. Tanya Donnelly also played with Kim and Kelly Deal in the Breeders, and went on to front Belly before embarking on a solo career (check out her song 'The Bright Light').

6. This band are a folk group from the northeast of England, and many of the songs in their repertoire are Northumbrian folk songs. They have also set the poems of Emily Bronte to music. They are sisters Rachel and Becky (who the band are named after), along with multi-instrumentalists Adrian McNally and Chris Price, and violinist/viola player Niopha Keegan. Pianist Belinda O'Hooley was a former member of the band when they went under a different name, but what are they known as now?

Answer: The Unthanks

Most of the bands in this quiz are indie, rock and/or metal, so I decided to pick something a bit different for a change. The Unthanks were originally known as Rachel Unthank and the Winterset and released two albums under that name, 'Cruel Sister' and 'The Bairns'.

Although Rachel Unthank and the Winterset were an all-female group, the Unthanks were a mixed-sex group. As well as traditional and folk songs, they have also covered songs by Anthony and the Johnsons, Robert Wyatt and Molly Drake (the mother of folk singer Nick Drake).

In 2019, they released a trio of concept albums called 'Lines'; the first was about the Hull triple trawler disaster in 1968 and the Hull fisheries worker and political activist Lillian Bilocca, the second was themed around the First World War, and the third, commissioned by the Bront� Society, was a collection of Emily Bront� poems set to music.

7. This band are another obscure entry, and also one of the more unusual bands in this quiz in that they're all sisters! They're a punk band from the English seaside town of Hastings, and their names are Abby Charlotte, Anna Coral, Amy Catherine and Alison Cara Elliott. In fact, the name of the band was inspired by the sisters' names. They released their self-titled first album in 2014. Who are they? (Hint: Lemmy and Mr Frehley might know.)

Answer: Maid of Ace

All four of the Elliott sisters have first names beginning with A (singer/guitarist Alison, guitarist Anna, bassist Amy and drummer Abby) and middle names beginning with C, meaning that all four of them have ACE as their full initials. They formed in 2005, playing their first gig at their high school, and in the late '10s, they were a regular feature at the Rebellion punk festival in Blackpool. All four of them worked as bartenders in a club in their native Hastings, where they befriended DJ and videographer Mark Richards, who shot the video for their single 'Enemy Within'.

They self-released their first album in 2014 and their second album, 'Maid in England', came out in 2016. (The hint is a reference to Mot�rhead's 'The Ace of Spades' and Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley.)

8. This band were from Florida in the USA and were known for their love of gore and their singer's tendency to self-harm onstage. They got their name from a piece of graffiti in a police station. Their line-ups varied but the constant was singer Jessicka; other members included guitarist Michelle Inhell, drummer Tenni Ah-Cha-Cha and bassist Robin 'Agent' Moulder. Fluffy's Hellen Storer and Marilyn Manson's Scott 'Daisy Berkowitz' Putesky both played with them. Who were they?

Answer: Jack Off Jill

Jack Off Jill got their name from Marilyn Manson, for whom they had opened in their early days; one of his former band members, the late Scott Putesky (aka Daisy Berkowitz and SMP), briefly played guitar with Jack Off Jill in 1997 and 1998. Their lyrics often juxtaposed cutesy things like candy and dolls with gore, death and bodily functions, and Jessicka would often perform covered in spit and blood.

They released several EPs before their first full length album, 'Sexless Demons and Scars', in 1997; one notable feature of the album was its hidden track, 'Angels [Censored]', which was listed as track #99 (which made copying the album to iTunes several years later annoying).

After the band split, Jessicka formed Scarling, who had more of a shoegaze sound.

The original JOJ line-up of Jessicka, Michelle 'Inhell' Oliver and Tenni 'Ah-Cha-Cha' Arslayan (with Hellen Storer replacing Robin Moulder on bass) reunited for a series of gigs in the '10s but sadly, Jack Off Jill are no longer able to perform due to Jessicka's health issues. (I missed their reunion gig in Manchester due to illness, and to say I am gutted is an understatement.)

9. This band were from Minneapolis in the USA, and were forerunners of grunge. Their songs were loud and minimalist, with plenty of screaming and lyrics that bordered on incomprehensible, and their singer paired smeared make-up with tea dresses and Mary Jane shoes. They were Kat Bjelland, Michelle Leon (later replaced by Maureen Herman) and Lori Barbero, but Courtney Love was never a member. Who were they?

Answer: Babes in Toyland

Like L7's Jennifer Finch, Babes in Toyland singer Kat Bjelland played with Courtney Love in Pagan Babies, also known as Sugar Babydoll. She popularised the 'kinderwhore' look, which paired traditionally feminine clothes and accessories with messy hair and make-up. Along with Bjelland, bassist Michelle Leon and drummer and occasional singer Lori Barbero completed the line-up; Maureen Herman replaced Leon in 1992, when they released their second album 'Fontanelle', which featured the song 'Bruise Violet' (thought to be an attack on Courtney Love).

After Babes in Toyland split the first time around, Bjelland formed Katastrophy Wife and also produced British indie band Angelica; their drummer, Rachel Parsons, and bassist, Bridget Colton, played with Bjelland briefly in 2002 under the name of Babes in Toyland, though they had to stop when Barbero and Herman raised legal objections.

The 'Fontanelle' line-up got back together in 2014 (and I saw them at Primavera Sound the following year), but fired Herman in 2015.

This was thought to be due to an article Herman had written criticising Joan Jett for denying that Runaways bassist Jackie Fox had been raped by their manager, Kim Fowley; Barbero was producing a band on Jett's label at the time, and she worried that Herman's article could cause a conflict of interest between her and Jett. In 2020, the band split again, and in an interview, Barbero said that the chances of a Babes in Toyland reunion were very unlikely.

10. This band are from Portland, Oregon, and had their roots in the Riot Grrrl movement, though they outlasted it and evolved their sound. Instead of having a bassist, they have two guitarists playing different melody lines. Fans of 'Bob's Burgers' and 'Portlandia' may know of them. They are Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, and Janet Weiss was their longest-running drummer, but what is the name of the band?

Answer: Sleater-Kinney

Sleater-Kinney were founded by singer/guitarists and songwriters Corin Tucker, formerly of Heavens to Betsy, and Carrie Brownstein, formerly of Excuse 17, after Brownstein started at university in Olympia, Washington. Bikini Kill's Tobi Vail and Kathleen Hanna were also students there. Brownstein had been a fan of Heavens to Betsy and both bands played and toured together, before Brownstein and Tucker formed Sleater-Kinney as a side project, which then became their main focus.

They started with Lora McFarlane on drums for their first two albums, but as she was based in Australia, it caused the band difficulties and they eventually settled on Janet Weiss, who played with them from 1997's 'Dig Me Out' (their best album, in my opinion) to 2019's 'The Centre Won't Hold', produced by St Vincent.

In the early days, Tucker and Brownstein were a couple; the song 'One More Hour' is about their split. The band later relocated to Portland, which would be the setting for Brownstein and Fred Armisen's comedy show 'Portlandia'.

They split in 2006, with Tucker going solo, Weiss and Brownstein playing in Wild Flag and Weiss playing with Steven Malkmus, but reformed in 2014 with a new album, 'No Cities to Love'. Brownstein released a memoir, 'Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl', in 2015.

Source: Author Kankurette

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