Up and coming: Ruby Throat

Published on Sunday 22 November 2009 21:25

WHO are Ruby Throat?

An eerie folk duo from London town, comprising Katie Jane Garside and Chris Whittingham, who met when the former spotted the latter busking on the Underground. Garside is still best known as the grubby baby-doll-nightdress-wearing, banshee-wailing girl-child singer in chaotic indie punk combo Daisy Chainsaw, who had a hit in the early 1990s with Love Your Money.

What's she been up to since?

Judging by the number of musical aliases she uses, Garside has barely paused for breath since, initially forming weird rockers Queen Adreena with Chainsaw guitarist Crispin Gray. More recently, she collaborated with French composer Hector Zazou on his final album, worked on a graphic novel with artist Dan Schaffer and mounted an exhibition of her Polaroid pictures called Darling, They've Found The Body.

Still mad as a badger, then?

If writing sparse blues songs called Consuela's Newt can be considered eccentric, then yes. Her breathy little girl persona is no more pretentious than Joanna Newsom but, at a run of 500 copies, Ruby Throat's second album, Out Of A Black Cloud Came A Bird, is presumably not expected to sell as well.

What other folks are saying:

"Fresh from David Lynch's Twin Peaks, fallen under the influence of LSD" – burnyour ears.com. "One of the most intoxicating voices of the moment" – Noise magazine

Where can I hear more? www.myspace.com/katyjanegarsiderubythroat

&#149 Out Of A Black Cloud Came A Bird is released on 30 November