Sarah Cracknell and Friends

The Saint Etienne connection: A number of individuals interwoven with Sarah Cracknell and Saint Etienne over the years. Literally need a map to follow this one.

Sarah Cracknell Mick Bund

In 1987 Sarah Cracknell released the Love Is All You Need 7 Inch on the 3 Bears Records label. Mick wrote both tracks on the release and played guitar. Mick had known Sarah for a long time having been in Worried Parachutes, Prime Time, and Oblivion River with her. Please note we have never found any recorded product by these three outfits. Mick and Sarah also co-wrote Saint Etienne songs Marble Lions, Lullaby, and Sushi Rider Click on this link for Artwork

Felt Lawrence Mick Bund Maurice Deebank Many Others

Around 1986/1987 Sarah was hanging out with Lawrence of Felt. There is a record of Sarah and Mick Bund's band Oblivion River opening for Felt back in August 1986. Mick Bund also soon joined Felt in the late eighties. Maurice Deebank co-wrote Saint Etienne's track Paper with Sarah and it appeared as a B-Side on the Avenue single in 1992

Metro Trinity Johnny Male Jez Williams (Doves)

In 1987 Metro Trinity released the Die Young 12 Inch (4 songs) on the Cafeteria label and a track on a joint flexi with Inspiral Carpets on the Debris label. Click on this link for a selection of the Metro Trinity discography

Soul Family Sensation Johnny Male Guy Batson Jhelisa Pete Z Brian Pugsley (Producer)

Soul Family Sensation released one album called New Wave and three singles: 1) I Don't Even Know If I Should Call You Baby, 2) Perfect Life - 747 Tonight, 3) The Day You Went Away - Other Stuff back in 1991 and 1992 on the One Little Indian label Click on this link for a selection of the Soul Family Sensation discography

Airstream Johnny Male Mick Bund Richard Van Spall

Airstream released one album (Ricky Tick) and five singles back in 1991 and 1992 on the One Little Indian label. Siobhan Brookes, Saint Etienne backing vocalist in the early years provided some vocals on two of the tracks on the Ricky Tick album. Click on this link for a selection of the Airstream discography

Mexico 70 Mick Bund Richard Van Spall

Mexico 70 released three albums and five singles between 1991 and 1995 on various labels including Big Pop, inertia, and Cherry Red. Sarah Cracknell provided vocals on the track Worthless. Johnny Male also helped out on the Worthless EP Click on this link for where you can find the track Worthless

Sensation Johnny Male Guy Batson

Sensation released an album (Burger Habit) and two singles back in 1993 on the One Little Indian label. Between 1993-1995, they recorded an album called Yesterday Things Got Worse which was thought to be lost until its rediscovery and released in 2000 on Firestation Tower Records. Siobhan Brookes, Saint Etienne backing vocalist in the early years provided some vocals on one of the tracks on the Burger Habit album. Click on this link for a selection of the Sensation discography

Saint Etienne Johnny Male Guy Batson

Sarah Cracknell co-wrote the Hug My Soul single with Johnny and Guy and was issued in 1994. All three also co-wrote other Saint Etienne songs such as Lost In The Library, Departure Lounge Click on this link for the Hug My Soul single discography

Republica Johnny Male Tim Dorney (Flowered Up)

Republica released their first single in 1994 and are still going today. Click on this link for a selection of the Republica discography

Crush Johnny Male (Writer) Guy Batson (Producer, Writer) Pete Smith (Writer) Henry Priestman (Writer) Brian Pugsley (Producer) Danny De Matos (Writer) Stephen Lironi (Writer) Mick Bund (Writer) Sarah Cracknell (Writer)

It's almost like everyone in Sarah Cracknell's family tree wrote and produced the Crush album. The Japanese version called Teenage Kicks was released in 1996 and the US version called Crush was released in 1997. Click on this link to find out more information on Crush and their discography Click on this link for Crush material written by Sarah Cracknell

Sarah Cracknell Johnny Male (Writer) Guy Batson (Writer) Henry Priestman (Musician) Stephen Lironi (Writer) Mick Bund (Writer)

Lipslide, first solo album by Sarah Cracknell released in 1997 and support help from alot of friends Click on this link for the Lipslide discography

Etienne Daho Johnny Male Guy Batson Sarah Cracknell

All four co-wrote the Etienne Daho single Le Premier Jour which was released in 1998 Click on this link for Le Premier Jour single

Cheapglue Johnny Male Guy Batson Henry Priestman Pete Smith Rick Duce Tim Dorney (Flowered Up) Brian Pugsley

The band released one CD Sexyhorses in 2002 which featured Sarah's vocals on the track You Just Won Me Over released on One Little Indian. They also released a CD single called Herr Madonna. Click on this link for the Cheapglue discography