Queen Adreena

      After the success of Eleventeen, Daisy Chainsaw's first and only album, fueled by their punk hit “Love your money”, guitarist Crispin Gray and lead vocalist Katie Jane Garside decided to create a new band called Queen Adreena in 1999. Their first EP “Taxidermy” was released in 2000, written by the two of them. This album was to become an unusually successful hit, a classic with its awesome personality and sound, sometimes rock'n'roll, sometimes blues and melancholic. 

      The band would rotate through several bassists and drummers until they found Pete Howard in 2002 to be part of their second album “Drink Me”, a record more brutal and distinctive than the first one. Pete Howard would bring his savage strength on the drums, infusing a good rhythm and great energy to Queen Adreena. 

      With their new album "The Butcher and the Butterfly" Queen Adreena had scored its biggest hit yet, ironically it was a cover of Dolly Parton's hit song "Jolene" which sounds like an odd choice for this band, but it worked out beautifully, giving a classic country song a whole new rock/metal dimension. With this new single.  And with follow-up hits such as "Pretty Like Drugs" and "Medicine Jar" Queen Adreena began to finally achieve more mainstream success as it had done with Daisy Chainsaw. 

     Even though Queen Adreena still does a gig together now and then, lead singer Katie Jane Garside has gone on to create a multitude of other projects such as a band called Corpse Electrique and the soft and breathy band Ruby Throat, which is just soft whispers of spoken poetry with light and shallow music that's almost undetectable.  I've grown to love almost anything that Garside does because you can always count on it being fun, interesting, and completely artistic.