Blog: Drawer B

The Guradian's Dave Simpson ponders why 80's British art pop icon Danielle Dax remains so obscure to this day, while Bat for Lashes is garnering so much praise as the freak du jour. Simpson concludes it's because Dax was ahead of her time. By twenty years or so: I've absolutely no idea how many people have even heard of her, but Dax was doing a similar thing in the 80s to what Natasha Khan is doing now. She fused electronics with guitars, rock and dance beats. She looked like a slightly more gothic Stevie [...]