Mouse [ii]

Born march 14, 1961. Was part of the London occult scene and a prolific poet. She played bass in Psychic TV during their Godstar era, and clarinet with Monte Cazazza. She was founding member of Fire+Ice. She passed away in 2022 aged 61. "It's a bit unfortunate that Mouse is remembered largely as a bass player in other peoples' bands, as she was something of a Renaissance woman in what is now generally termed "magical artistry" - an intense and often catalytic personality who wrote poetry and prose, drew, played and wrote music and songs, and took photos - all in concert with her magical preoccupations and all of them rather well. She was one of those people who formed a link between the musical and occult "scenes" and apart from her own accomplishments was something of an "invisible influence", responsible for many an introduction between people which would bear fruit elsewhere, later down the line. Her bass-playing was fluid and serpentine, sadly constrained in the [[artist:17926]] recordings by the demands of musical director Alex Fergusson, but heard to better advantage in the recordings of her own band **Feast of Hunger** in the late 80s - concurrent with and post-PTV. After that she recorded and played live with her first husband Matthew Stevens (ex-Act of Faith) and Liverpool's [[artist:23694]]. One of her own compositions - 'Blood on the Snow' was recorded during her stint in [[artist:184279]]. Besides Bass Guitar she also played a mean Free Jazz Clarinet, as heard on her piece with Monte Cazazza when he supported PTV at their Xmas do [m=625953]. Mouse was also active as a prolific poet and published work in Joel Biroco's 'Kaos' and Stephen Sennitt's 'Nox', and her 'Ciphers in Flesh', appeared in 'Starfire' - either issue 4 or 5.. It was through Mouse's friendship with Jan Fries that the latter's 'Visual Magic' came to be typed (by Mouse) and brought to the attention of Mandrake, thereby gaining Fries a publisher. Both participated in the European Maat Network along with Tanith and Alistair Livingstone. Mouse also gave a talk on magical creativity at the 1992 Chaos Magic Symposium in London. She left London in around 1995 to live in the country with husband and cats, and appears not to have been publicly active in the arts of late." [edited from lashtal.com]