WENDY JAMES // The Cluny Newcastle

Wendy James is an English singer- songwriter notable for her work with band Transvision Vamp, collaboration with Elvis Costello, solo work, collaboration with James Williamson from Iggy & the Stooges, Lenny Kaye from The Patti Smith Group and James Sclavunos from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. She has released 10 album from 1988 until 2024.

Touring to celebrate her latest top 40 album The Shape of Things, expect to hear new songs, old songs and everything in between from a geunine pop music icon.

Wendy “I grew up, musically, in the age of the sequencer. There was Transvision Vamp and there was Sigue Sigue Sputnik and we were both drawn into the future by Ridley Scott’s movie Bladerunner. The futuristic, seedy glamour of an overcrowded Chinatown and the high, high skyscrapers, where the masters of the universe observed and policed down below. Also Polanski’s movie ‘Frantic’, Beineix’s movie ‘Diva’, European dark electro and Klaus Nomi’s ‘The Cold Song’. I wrote Freedomsville on guitar like all my songs and in the end I didn’t use sequencers at all, it’s all real playing very rhythmically on repeat for just short of six minutes straight!”

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