Annie Hogan

Annie Hogan's work has always been at the cutting edge of innovation and deviation, from her first recorded outings on the Marc and the Mambas 'Sleaze' (1982) to her more recent, genre-bending forays into spectral techno with Regis and the Berlin based EROS.

Her latest revelation, Tongues In My Head is an aural spellbook that channels every aspect of Hogan's musical genius. Its shimmering, glimmering soundscape and richly evocative vocals gather up the threads of a lifetime's immersion in musical magic to form the dark masterpiece of her solo career.

She has worked her alchemy alongside the heavyweight likes of Soft Cell, Nick Cave, Jarboe, Yello, Simon Fisher Turner, Zeke Manyika, and most famously, her decade-long musical partnership with Marc Almond spanned every Mambas, Willing Sinners and La Magia release, culminating in the 1988 Number One hit reworking of 'Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart' as an epic duet between Marc and Gene Pitney. With Dave Ball as producer she made Lost In Blue, a compelling collection of Hogan originals, with contributions from Lydia Lunch, Gavin Friday, Richard Strange, Wolfgang Flür along with 2 numbers performed by Hogan herself.

On Downwards, she has released a succession of extraordinary, atmospheric albums written in response to various landscapes. Honeysuckle Burials (2020), was inspired by wanderings in the Clwydian Range in North Wales, Funeral Cargo (2021) explored her Viking ancestry in the Wirral, while the retrospective Without The Moon released in the same year, gathered pivotal recordings from her debut Kickabye EP (1984), featuring Marc Almond, Nick Cave, Banshees drummer Budgie and JG Thirlwell aka Foetus with vintage rare grooves made with Jarboe and Barry Adamson and a brand new piano piece featuring Kid Congo Powers on guitar.

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