Little Annie Anxiety Bandez

Little Annie is an adventuress, chanteuse/lyricist, multi-media artist and post-modern cabaret queen with a long, illustrious and eclectic recording career. Born in New York with no intention of a career in the arts, she pursued numerous jobs, criss-crossed the continent, and generally earned her poetic license until she found herself on stage at the legendary 'Max’s Kansas City', fronting the atonal, savage dance-rthymed Asexuals at the sneak-in-the-back-door age of 16. After meeting Steve Ignorant from the band Crass on her doorstep a year later, she visited the United Kingdom for 2 weeks and stayed for over a decade. Through the years and numerous collaborations (Wolfgang Press, Crass, the ON-U Sound stable, Paul Oakenfold, Kid Congo Powers, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, the late Bim Sherman, Coil, Fini Tribe, Collapsed Lung, and many fine others) she refused to be restricted by labels and genres and continues to span the spectrum from jazz, reggae & hip-hop to torch and avant-garde.

Barbed Wire Halo 7" (1981)


A Hello Horror
B Cyanide Tears

Lyrics By, Vocals - Annie Anxiety*
Performer [Backing], Producer - Penny Rimbaud


Soul Possession (1984)


A1 Closet Love
A2 Third Gear
A3 Turkey Girl
A4 Burnt Offerings
B1 To Know Evil
B2 Sad Shadows
B3 Viet Not Mine, El Salvador Yours
B4 Waiting For The Fun

Bass - Derek Birkett (tracks: 2, 5)
Drums - Penny Rimbaud (tracks: 3) , Prisoner (3) (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9)
Guitar - Martin Frederix (tracks: 5, 7)
Harp [Chinese], Keyboards, Piano - Kishi* (tracks: 1, 4, 6)
Percussion - Bonjo* (tracks: 2, 8)
Producer - Adrian Sherwood
Vocals - Annie Anxiety* , Eve Libertine (tracks: 6)

This record was never released on On-U Sound. Although all copies have the On-U catalogue number (ON-U LP29) on the back of the sleeve it is clearly officially only a Corpus Christi release.


As I Lie In Your Arms 12" (1987)


A1 As I Lie In Your Arms
A2 Down By The Station
B Rise / Dub

Bass - Doug Wimbish
Guitar - Martin Frederix
Mixed By - Adrian Sherwood
Percussion - Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah
Producer, Keyboards, Drum Programming [Rhythm Tracks],
Noises ["sounds"] - Kishi Yamamoto


Jackamo (1989)


1 As I Lie In Your Arms 5:48
2 Bastinado 4:06
Producer - Adrian Sherwood
3 Chasing The Dragon Down Broadway 4:10
Bass - Martin Frederix
4 Jackamo 5:59
5 Jack Yo Mama 3:51
Bass - Martin Frederix
6 One Mourning (For Marvin Gaye) 5:05
7 Rise 5:30
8 Hier Encore 3:46
Accordion, Piano - Ian Hill
9 Down By The Station 4:57
10 Rise (Dub) 3:46


Short, Sweet And Dread (1994)


1 10 Killer Hurtz More (Remix)
Mixed By - Skip McDonald
Producer - Little Annie , Richard Norris
2 Miss The Light
Mixed By - Adrian Sherwood
Producer - Dave Curtis
3 This Town
Mixed By - Adrian Sherwood
Producer - Keith LeBlanc
4 Le Manger Hereux
Mixed By - Adrian Sherwood , Skip McDonald
Producer - Keith LeBlanc
5 Watch The World Go Bye In Dub
6 Watch The World Go Bye
7 Bless Those (Little Annie's Prayer)
8 Going For Gold
9 I Think Of You
10 I Think Of You Dub
11 Give It To Me
12 You And The Night And The Music
13 Little Man
14 Prisoner Of Paradise
15 Everything And More
16 If Cain Were Able
Mixed By - Skip McDonald



Little Annie & The Legally Jammin' (2003)

1 Bleach 4:53
Percussion [Additional] - Crooked Screws, The , Kid Congo Powers
2 Take It From Me 5:01
Backing Vocals - Vic Doirée
3 Samsara 6:12
4 2nd Avenue Blues 2:36
5 Backtrack Jack 4:02
6 No Angels 5:37
7 Well? 6:15
8 Chicken Delight 5:14

Guitar, Percussion, Electronics - Jendreiko
Organ, Percussion, Electronics - Khan
Vocals - Annie*
Written-By - Little Annie & The Legally Jammin'

Basic Tracks recorded at Studio Apartment, Düsseldorf. Overdubs recorded at Sound in a bag, Mexico City. Vocals and percussion recorded at Sound in a bag, New York City. 2nd Avenue Blues' recorded live at Sound in a bag, New York City.




Songs from the Coalmine Canary (2006)

1. Freddy and Me
2. Derma
3. Lullaby
4. The Good Ship Nasty Queen
5. Absynth tea-ism
6. If I Were a Man
7. Diamonds Made of Glassine
8. Strange Love
9. Sit on Down
10. End is Near

Annie (vocals)
Antony (piano)
Joe Budenholzer (production)

"Lullaby" and "Diamonds Made of Glass" are both new recordings


Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch

When Good Things Happen To Bad Pianos

1 It Was A Very Good Year 3:20
Written-By - Ervin Drake
2 Song For You 6:06
Written-By - Leon Russell
3 Private Dancer 5:23
Guitar [Electric], Backing Vocals - Kid Congo Powers
Written-By - Mark Knopfler
4 One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) 3:07
Written-By - Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer
5 If You Go Away 4:26
Lyrics By [English] - Rod McKuen
Music By - Jacques Brel
6 Victim 5:31
Guitar [Electric], Backing Vocals - Kid Congo Powers
Written-By - David Crawford*
7 Yesterday When I Was Young 4:06
Lyrics By [English] - Herbert Kretzmer
Music By - Charles Aznavour
8 The Summer Knows 1:55
Lyrics By - Marilyn & Alan Bergman
Music By - Michel Legrand
9 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 5:14
Written-By - U2
10 All I Want For Christmas 1:30
Lyrics By - Annie Anxiety Bandez
Music By - Paul Wallfisch

Artwork By [Package Design] - Rick Klaver
Mastered By - Fred Kevorkian
Photography - Philip Lethen
Producer, Recorded By, Piano, Synthesizer, Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals - Paul Wallfisch Trumpet - Jeff Pierce
Voice - Little Annie



Genderful 2010

1. Tomorrow Will Be 6:42
2. Miss Annie Regrets 1:22
3. Suitcase Full Of Secrets 4:06
4. Billy Martin Requiem 4:53
5. In The Bar Womb 1:59
6. Because You're Gone Song 2:17
7. Cutesy Bootsies 3:01
8. Zexy Zen Zage 4:34
9. Carried Away 2:23
10. God Song 4:52
11. Adrianna 5:30

Here comes Genderful, Annie and Paul's new album that somehow manages to perfectly mix soul songs and chansons, bluesy saloon singing and European cabaret styling into a gorgeous, new amalgam. Dig the gentle groove and the sad strings of "Suitcase Full of Secrets", and the fluttering, art-house-cinema-soundtrack glamour of "Because You're Gone Song". "Regret", "Carried Away" and "In The Bar Womb" would make Jacques Brel and/or Serge Gainsbourg proud. "Zen Zexy Zage", "Cutesy Bootsies" and "Adrianna" are brilliant little three penny operas for this post-gentrification/monetary meltdown epoch. Then there are subtle epics like "Billy Martin's Requiem"- a tough, groovy bit of NYC-back-in-the-day-free-association that mixes the ill-fated Yankees manager, the post-punk scene and all the brilliant men lost to AIDS in one smart, seamless package, and "Tomorrow Will Be", a shimmering, resplendent prayer to life with Annie as a knowing urban/urbane/earth mother.

Genderful is sentiment without sentimentality, inspiration without bombast, a collection of songs thick with pain and wit and joy.

A perfect reflection of Annie herself....

See you on the other side of heartache.