I miss the Nymphs

The Nymphs at the Marquee show I never saw

Back, when I was still at school, I discovered this really cool band called The Nymphs led by the fiesty Inger Lorre. Most people only knew them because of an incident following Guns N Roses stealing their producer, Bill Price, in the middle of making their first album. Left hanging and unable to complete their debut for months and months, it led to singer Lorre infamous retaliation: urinating on the desk of Geffen A&R man Tom Zutatut's desk!

Lorre was awesome, all feathers and attitude. Too cool. My friend and I tried to get to see them at their sold out show at The Marquee at the time but alas we were just kids and didn't have enough money to buy a ticket from the touts (I think they were charging about £30, not a fortune now but a huge amount of money to us back then). Afterwards we heard that the band turned up on stage hours late, Inger in pink top hat and feather boa, and put on a half awesome, half terrible show. I wish I could have seen it!

Here's the video for Sad And Damned from their sole self-titled album release. Apparently Inger had to put real maggots on her tongue for the Alice In Wonderland-style table scene. How's that for dedication to your art?