Wendy James

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In the latter half of the 1980s, Wendy James’s band Transvision Vamp created quite a stir. Their music, including a chart-topping second album, was fizzing, bright-coloured, punky power pop and James was a pouting, hissy-fit of a frontwoman, emanating urgent wannabe-famous sexuality. She disappeared from view in the Nineties, turning up again in the new millennium, first with a band, Racine, and then solo.

She returns with a great new album "The Price of The Ticket" and gathered a ballsy punk supergroup – Sex Pistol Glenn Matlock, Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye, and Bad Seeds drummer Jim Sclavunos to record it. They build grungey, enjoyable backing tracks, part Stooges, part Voivoids, part Velvet Underground, and are equally capable on twinkling slowies such as “Screamin’ Back Washington”.