Danielle Dax, is an experimental musician and producer most active from the late 1970s to the mid - 1990s. She was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Dax first performance on stage in London was when she was a pre-teen. She sang in Benjamin Brittens Opera 'Noye's Fludde' (Noah's Flood), at the Royal Albert Hall. Preceeding this, the first time Dax had trod the boards was at the age of three as an Orange Jelly Baby on the Southend Bandstand.
During Danielles time in the avant garde new wave rock band, Lemon Kittens, she was included on the League of Gentlemen's 1981 eponymous album, performing vocals (credited as "Hamsprachtmusic") on the song "Minor Man". However, that song was not included when the album was released on CD as 'God Save The King'. Her artwork was kept for the cover. She also painted the cover for Robert Fripps solo album 'Let the Power Fall'. Dax also supplied vocals to an unreleased track by the Bombay Ducks that had her duetting with (although never meeting) Robert Wyatt.
When, in early 1982, Lemon Kittens went into 'extended hibernation' Dax embarked on her solo career, recording and producing the albums 'Pop-Eyes' (1983), 'Jesus Egg That Wept' (1984), and (1987) and various EPs on the label Awesome Records. In 1988 she signed with Sire Records, which released her double album 'Dark Adapted Eye', containing material from her previous recordings, such as the well-known song "Big Hollow Man", and included, amongst some, new and unreleased recordings old favourites such as "Cat-House", "White Knuckle Ride", "When I Was Young", "House Cat", "Whistling for His Love" and "Touch Piggy's Eyes".
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Probably the only white Essex girl to have appeared both as a Jelly Baby and to go on to sing about 'branding niggers' as she does in this song. Strangely distorted blues, great for headphones. 'Jesus egg that wept' would be in my top 10 best albums, if you can find it, check it out.
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StrungOut on 08-09-2010