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Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Book Club Blog Heroine Wendy James is back - alive and punching!

- Wendy James, now 38, has ended her 11 year retirement since 1993's "Now Aint The Time For Your Tears" and relaunched herself as Racine. At long last she can now be found online at The Racine World where she declares in her typical style that "as The Racine World gets bigger you’ll find The Racine World also gets smaller." Bless her.

- Metro has run through its 60 second interview with Wendy, who it turns out, is living happily in NYC of all places having become tired of walking up and down Portobello Road for 15 years. Wendy's new single "Grease Monkey" is out on September 20th, and the new album "Number 1" is out on the 27th September.

- Sunday Mail, "THE LADY OF THE VAMP BITES BACK,"August 1st, 2004

- Previous "Wendy James" Book Club Blog Post, "The Times, They Are A Changing," April 08, 2004

- The Cambridge based R*E*P*E*A*T Fanzine (which was apparently "first set up in 1994 in homage to The Manic Street Preachers, the only band in my adult lifetime to re-unite intelligence, politics, energy, beauty and general fucked-up ness with rock'n'roll.") Revolution Baby interview with Wendy by Rosey R*E*P*E*A*T, July 21st 2004. It appears that Wendy is as keen as ever to express her views on the world:

"I think that everything is political. I think it's redundant to argue the virtues of an established political party because power corrupts absolutely. My leanings are of course towards the left, but ultimately bureaucracy is what's running the country. And greed, avarice and short sightedness. Fear is what keeps governments in power, making people scared to want to change things. I live in New York, which is fairly liberal on the whole, but for most of America it's a no brainer; Bush tells them that any minute now they're going to be under attack from dirty foreigners so no one dares to make a change. Personally I find it even more astonishing the way Tony Blair behaves as he is meant to be on the left; with Bush we knew we were getting a right wing CIA son, but Blair got in on the ticket of being for the people, it's astounding!!"

- The London News Review asks: when will Wendy come clean and admit that she's a marketing tool for Bob Dylan? July 09, 2004

- Merits of the comeback discussed by way of comments on a blog of all things...

- We are Transvision Vamp - most comprehensive unofficial site

- Racine Fan - a new fansite for Racine

- Racine - the wonderful world of Wendy James - a live journal blog

Posted by Nick @ 17:27 GMT

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