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Jane Walker - in Toy Love performing at XS Cafe, Auckland
Toy Love were Paul Kean (Bass), Mike Dooley (Drums), Jane Walker (Keyboards), Chris Knox (Vocals) and Alec Bathgate (Guitar) - inducted into NZMHOF 2012
Jane Walker was born in the UK in 1957. She started off circa 1976 in The Detroit Hemroids (a group also known as Basket Cases, The Pitts and Krazy Katts). Although mostly into drumming, she realised that she harboured a great affection for the piano (which she had studied earlier). Toy Love emerged, producing a major whirlwind for nearly two years, subsequent to which Jane remained involved in music in New Zealand and the UK, but not especially overtly. She returned to Christchurch with Paul Kean in 1981, playing in Thanks to Llamas with him and Robert Scott, and doing a lot of sound engineering especially with the advent of the Dunedin scene. She spent the mid 1980s in Wellington, playing with Naked Spots Dance and The Jellymen. She began playing bass, and was part of a group called Uranium Orchids. With two of the band, she moved to London in 1987 and the group gradually morphed into what became Static - delivering "nasty industrial weirdness", and their 12inch single Enter became Single of the Week in Melody Maker a significant achievement for those days. |
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