Baby

"Probably the earliest Wendy Jamieson publicity photo, when I was roughly the same age as the average Pop Idol contestant!"

Guitar

"My first instrument was a mandolin and I was a bit of a late starter as a guitarist - here I am, at 17, with my first guitar, a Shergold Meteor (looks similar to a Telecaster). I was always more into writing songs than learning what to do with the instrument, hence I'm not exactly Eric Clapton ... just about good enough to play on my own backing tracks these days (although I confess to using session players on the Meat Loaf tracks!)"

Graduation

"Well, at least I got an 'ology! Living proof that not all blondes are dumb?"

Richard Cooper - 1981

Rick's Disco, of which I was the female half. Richard Cooper, the man who got me into all this in the first place (he has a lot to answer for).

Nightbirds 1982

"After I accidentally got into DJing in 1981, my sister Xandra and I formed Nightbirds Roadshow, the only all-female mobile disco in the South West."

Nightbirds Disco

"Working on the premise that size is everything, our lightshow grew to sixteen feet including overhead projectors and strobes"

Fancy Dress - 1984

"Nightbirds on duty with my sister Xandra hosting a celebrity fancy dress bash, I was Boy George and she was Adam Ant. I don't think anyone was fooled though, we weren't stopped for autographs..."

Nightbirds Roadcrew - 1985

We'd never have made it without them!

Polydor - 1991

"The official promo shot for Polydor Records, in the days I was masquerading as a redhead and dressed like a refugee from the Human League. Someone should have told me the 80's were over"

O-Zone - 1992

Original line up:-

Vocals: Wendy
Backing Vocals: Trisha Nawacki
Keyboards: Malcolm Middleton (later Simon Young)
Bass: Dave Nicholson
Guitar: Steve Hood
Drums: Andy Hedges

"The band I naively joined before I realised what bands were about! not the happiest days of my life, but at least this publicity shot always makes me laugh. I keep waiting for Jeffrey and Bungle to appear"

Legal Tender Function Band - 1993

Original line up:-

Vocals: Wendy
Bass: John Seager
Guitar: Alan Bavage
Rhythm Guitar & Synth: Pete Allan
Drums: Nick Stockman

"Our best line up was with Lin Phelps on drums and Samantha Mortimer on keyboards."

Mantra - 1994

Original line up:-

Vocals: Wendy
Bass: Sarah Redman-Hyde
Keys: Samantha Mortimer
Guitar: Pete Allan
Drums: Johnny Cornish

"Slightly sinister and gothic looking I loved this band and I still miss our crazy rehearsals in the shed at Stoke Gabriel. We wrote a lot of our own material too.

Dogged by bad luck and too many line up changes, we played our last gig in February 1996 supporting The Sweet and never made it to Glastonbury as we'd planned"

Devilgate - 1996

Original line up:-

Vocals: Wendy
Bass: Chris Blake
Keys: Jez Postle
Guitar: Mark Barnwell
Drums: Billy Butlin-Jones

"The most fun band I've ever been in. We were the only band ever to reach the Podium in Stairway to the Stars where we gained great popularity as "The band Nina Miscow loves to hate!"

Witchqueen - 1996

"Wendy on vocals, Mark Lambert on guitar. As my full but little used surname is Jamieson-Butler, we nearly called the duo Lambert & Butler. To be honest we may as well have, as the whole thing went up in smoke after three months"

Screaming Lord Sutch - 1996

"I'm a hog for you baby! duet with Screaming Lord Sutch at the Golden Lion, Ashburton"

Alan Hope - 1996

"With Alan "Great White" Hope then deputy leader, now Dave Sutch's successor as leader of the Monster Raving Loony Party. Picture courtesy of Woman's Realm"

Picture This - Blondie Tribute Band - 2000

Original line up:-

Vocals: Wendy
Keyboards: Paul Mathews
Bass: Chris Blake
Guitar: Mark Bethel
Drums: Billy Butlin-Jones

"The band that made me finally decide to go solo"