Frank Zappa in his 1980 interview with Songwriter magazine said of Little Annie ˜But when I go to a place like Max's Kansas City in New York and see a group like Annie and the Asexuals, I can really enjoy it. I don't know if that band will ever get a record contract and I don't think they care. I watched them for an hour , painful as it was - their show was real personal and disorganized. This girl was wearing winter underwear with a black leather coat on top of that, and she had a paper bag with a bottle of vodka in it, and she was backed up by five guys who had just bought their instruments, apparently. She was screaming about thorazine and being in a mental hospital and it was real ! You don't get that commitment to just spewing your guts out among L.A. groups."

Little Annie-aka Annie Anxiety-aka Annie Bandez who survived her teenage angst and matured into a smokey contralto, has been˜real" ever since She is an adventuress, chanteuse/lyricist, ordained minister, high school drop out, juvenile delinguint, self taught painter, and multi-media artist and post modern cabaret queen with a long, illustrious and eclectic recording career who had defied catagorization, limitation, restrictions and sometimes the law. Her solo LPs and numerous collaborations ( with Wolfgang Press, Crass, the ON-U Sounds stable, Paul Oakenfold, Kid Congo Powers, Current 93, Nurse with Wound, the late Bim Sherman, Coil, Fini Tribe, and Collapsed Lung, Christophe Heeman, and many fine others) span the spectrum from reggae & hip hop to torch and the avant garde. She has written 3 volumes of prose. appeared in numerous plays, theater pieces, and films, and continues to tour extensively with pianist and co-composer Paul Wallfisch Of BOTANICA. She is currently residing in her beloved muse and hometown of New York, after a thirteen year residency in England, where she has recorded her new CD 'Songs from The Coalmine Canary' produced by Antony (of Antony and The Johnsons) and Joe Buedenholzer (Backworld) for Dutro Records to be released winter 2006 and painting for her Urban Saints, God and Science, and September Skyline series,and is completing the 2nd Legally Jamming' CD the dance project she does with Can Oral and Christian Jendreiko.

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