Katie Jane Garside

Katrina Jane Garside (born 8 July 1968) is an English singer, songwriter, visual artist, and poet. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist of the indie noise rock band Daisy Chainsaw, which she formed in 1989 in London with guitarist Crispin Gray. After quitting Daisy Chainsaw in 1993, Garside went into seclusion for several years before reuniting with Gray in 1999 to form Queenadreena, with whom she released four studio albums between 2000 and 2008. In both Daisy Chainsaw and Queenadreena, Garside received critical attention for her alternately harsh and childlike vocals, manic onstage behaviour, and raucous live concerts. Beginning in 2007, she began writing and releasing material with her project Ruby Throat, an acoustic collaboration with guitarist Chris Whittingham. In 2007, Ruby Throat released their debut album, The Ventriloquist, followed by the self-released albums Out of a Black Cloud Came a Bird and O' Doubt O' Stars, released in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Ruby Throat released their fourth album, Baby Darling Taporo, in 2017. Garside self-released a solo album, Lullabies in a Glass Wilderness, in 2007, and has also worked in performance art, film and photography. In late 2007, her exhibition Darling, they've found the body was shown at Woom gallery in Birmingham, United Kingdom. She has previously exhibited, in 2005, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; Queenadreena also recorded their first live album there, Live at the ICA (2005).