Now she's coming back to Brighton from her New York home with her band Racine, who released second album Racine 2 last year.

She's come a long way since the days of I Want Your Love and Baby I Don't Care and produced and mixed Racine 2, as well as providing the vocals.

Nikki Jeffery caught up with her to preview the gig, at Brighton's Concorde2 on March 18, at 7.30pm.

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N: How do you feel about going back to your Brighton roots - where it all started? You must have good and bad memories....

W: I only have good memories of my time in Brighton… I was a young teenager and the world was opening up for me… everything about Brighton was exciting.

I met Nick Christian Sayer of course, the guitarist of TVV, we started making our Demos in his bedsit and that consumed our days and nights. I remember signing on the dole, and collecting my dole check and feeling like we had enough money to by a beer in a local pub… and I remember thinking how grown up it all was!

I remember going to the antique markets and vintage clothing stores. I remember walking along the beachfront of course... sometimes late at night, after partying, sometimes just peacefully on a Sunday or mid-week afternoon.

My life was beginning, that's how I remember Brighton. The world was full of possibilities, and Nick and I made our own bubble and lived in it, working, working, working towards to day that we would have our music ready for the world.

We dreamt a lot, listened to Bob Dylan and I learned so much… Brighton was my bohemian Debutante Ball! It all looked like Quadropenia to me... and i had something of the Jimmy about me...

N: You must've played Concorde before. What do you think of the venue?

W: I have never played Concorde… no, it's all brand new to me…


N: What can the audience expect from the gig? Is the line-up mostly from Racine 2 or a mix?

W: The live band is the band that played on the recording of RACINE 2, with the exception of the guitarist... Henric Strahl who lives in Sweden… and since we recorded RACINE 2 I was introduced to Dee Dee Ross, who just blows me away with his playing… but we'll all reunite with Henric when we get to Sweden… he'll be in the front row for sure!

It's a very bonded thing, you know, when you've intensely recorded work together or played gigs together… you stay blood brothers somehow… an un-written code for life.


N: Tell me about Racine. How did the band come about? Who's involved?
How would you describe your sound?

W: The line-up is myself on Vox and Guitar, Dee Dee on Lead Guitar, James "Hound Dog" Meynell on Bass, Goldenboy on Keys and Ray Sullivan on Drums. We're a mixture of NY and UK. I guess we're garage rock 'n' roll… in the vein of MC5 perhaps, the Stooges… the Patti Smith Group… but I often metaphorically wander down the Mississippi Delta too… and into Paris for some French pop, Jamaica for some roots-reggae, NY Five Boroughs for some hip hop and back to Detroit for that Motor City sound…

N: Where else will the tour take you?

W: We're going to pretty much every country in Scandinavia and EUR… it's a lot of countries, most days a different country… but then, European Mainland is pretty easy to transit, nothing is really more than 2.5 hours away on a plane.

N: Any plans for when it finishes?

W: When the Europe leg closes out, we will take a couple of weeks off and then start up in Canada and move down through US… and then in summer – onto the festival circuit… and at SOME point, go into a recording studio and lay down RACINE 3