Formed in 1998

Queenadreena formed in 1998 after guitarist Crispin Gray reunited with vocalist KatieJane Garside , with whom he had collaborated in 1989 when they formed the band Daisy Chainsaw . Garside left Daisy Chainsaw after completing two years with the band, and went into seclusion in the Lake District , where she lived in the historic Rigg Beck , a retreat for artists and bohemians. There, Garside began writing and recording her own material. Reflecting on leaving the music industry, Garside commented: “If I hadn’t left, it would have killed me… Because I didn’t write the songs [in Daisy Chainsaw] I could never give enough, never go far enough. I couldn’t bleed in words, I couldn’t bleed in lyrics—I could only bleed in performance, and that meant attacking [myself], literally.”