For those who are aware that I was a rock singer for nearly a decade in the UK before I had cosmetic surgery, it will come as no surprise that I put the band back together in April 2002.

The line-up includes my original drummer, Eddie, who is also the drummer in the legendary punk band, The Vibrators. (Click here to read the Vibrator's Biography.) Eddie brought Robbie, the Vibrators' current bass player, to complete the rhythm section. Next the Vibrators' guitarist, Knox, agreed to join us. (Knox and I also go back a long way. He played rhythm guitar on stage with my old band nearly twenty years ago.) That's how all of the Vibrators - who are a three-piece band these days - ended up in a new band with me, along with my old flatmate Juliette and our pal Isabel. We are called the Dollz.

After several weeks of rehearsing original material as well as a couple of covers, we began recording with former Vibrator's bassist turned producer Pat Collier in his south London studio, Gravity Shack. Our music has been likened to Blondie/Shangri-Las vocals backed by a Sex Pistols/Led Zeppelin wall of sound (we're loud!), whilst still having a highly unique sound in our own right.

The band has attracted a lot of interest. We've appeared on European television and received radio airplay on BBC Radio 2 and Ireland's RTE Radio, as well as being written about in the UK national press, including the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Express and OK! Magazine. What started off as a bit of fun has taken a more serious direction.

Click on the record below to listen to the Dollz version of You Don't Own Me.
("I'm not just one of your many toys... " Geddit?)

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