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In 2001 Queenadreena members had already clearly developed vision for what they want the next album to sound and look like. In a lot of the interviews it was constantly highlighted that they strived for simplified, raw sound, stripped off of all additional layers, leaving simple rock sound, often laced with anger and white noise. Album art had to reflect that simplified, raw direction. Blurry polaroids were rather a surprising transition from artistic, cinematic photos of Taxidermy, inspired by silent films. Polaroids are most often associated with instant capture of a moment in an amateur way, without much of planning. The cover and sleeve pictures were created out of cut up and arranged polaroid photos, creating surrealistic, distorted portraits. The cover shows Katie Jane crouched in a bathtub, disfigured, with head smaller and limbs appearing thinner than they in fact are. The back collage shows Katie’s legs, scarred and bruised after intense live show. There’s also a secret x-rated inlay photo, hidden behind the plastic part where CD is locked…
Katie Jane: „It is these small infinite frequencies that are begging to tell a 149 story. I can hear many voices and little melodies, like water flowing over a window or in a glass. It's very nice. And that tells me what I have to say. You have to listen very carefully, sometimes for hours. And if we listen and obey, there is a very coherent story waiting to be told. This is a blank page, like the desert or the ocean of infinite possibilities with nothing written on it, but everything, EVERYTHING, contained therein. Already very small, I could not sleep without hearing the water running. Must be amniotic, uterine, or something like that.”
„That's why you're in the fetal position on the cover?”
Katie Jane: „Yes, maybe. We made a series of self-portraits polaroids, very poor. There is something fetal but also something fossilized... which would have remained underground for a long time.”
The designer behind art of Drink Me and Pretty Like Drugs single (another collage of cut and bruised limbs, arranged in a way that at first glance you don’t really know what are you looking at) was Martin Andersen. Back in 2003, a Queen Adreena fansite called Room Eleven hosted a small interview with Andersen, in which he described how it was like to work with the band.
Martin Andersen: The Queenadreena project was an interesting one. First of all I have been working with many bands over the last 5 years, mainly for records labels ‘4AD’ and 'Rocket Girl’ Records.
Queenadreena has been one of the most professional, entertaining and open-minded bands I have worked with. The band had been recommended to look at my portfolio by Glen Johnson of Rough Trade Records (and lead singer of 'Piano Magic’, whose CD cover I had designed a few months before).
We set up a meeting in a bar in Primrose Hill. After looking through the work we decided to start working on their releases DRINK ME album and PRETTY LIKE DRUGS single. The band had taken numerous polaroids which they posted me - to start working with. The basic concept was to show the band in a 'angelic yet dark-surrealist way’. I shot different portraits of the band and printed some of their polaroids. I cut all of the material up and re-composed the different images together. I then re-shot these compositions to create new surreal portraits of them (with stretched arms, eyes, faces etc).
I especially like my photographs of Katie in the bath (DRINK ME) and the one of Crispin (who I think like a punk-biblical-character). In total I took between 50-70 photographs. We had a great working relationship, managed to get drunk every time we met and I have enjoyed seeing them live numerous times (THEY ROCK!).
Scrapped Kitty Collar Tight single cover whic was used for Pretty Like Drugs single instead
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Original Drink Me cover album polaroid
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Drink Me photoshoot polaroids from old version of Katiejane Garside's website
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Pretty Like Drugs single and its censored radio promo version. B-side track Beneath The Skin featured violin played by Paz Lenchantin of A Perfect Circle.
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Interviewer: So does the crowd influence your performances on stage?
KJG: Yes they do. I’m unkind enough to be pretty impersonal about how I do it, so I use them for me to kick against in effect, or to surf on, (I don’t
mean physically surf). If you’re in an empty roomand there’s a couple of people at the back, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll have a bad show -
they might get the show of their lives. And then again when something’s really heaving and going off, I get quite a distorted view of it, because I
can feel quite overwhelmed lose my sense of place in the situation. I lose control of myself. I don’t know, I probably wasn’t meant to do this, I
wasn’t built for this. It wasn’t a career option, I didn’t start there and go there, I didn’t pick up the things on the way. I’ve sort of gone round
and round.
(interview from 2002)
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