Chanteuse
Hermine was one of the new wave divas during her musical career. In 1974, employed as a tightrope walker by The Moodies, she sang for the first time in public, singing a song by Nick Lowe I won't make it without you. With Moodier, successor group to The Moodies, she performed a version of Roy Orbison's Blue Angel produced by Max Paddison in the style of a Marlene Dietrich song.
In 1976 she played two concerts with the group The Subterraneans, composed of Nick Kent and The Damned without their singer Dave Vanian, and also recorded with both Nick Kent and Peter Perrett, the resulting single never being published. David Cunningham from The Flying Lizards noticed Hermine and recorded her for her single Torture, originally planned for Virgin Records but which was eventually released on her own label Salomé Records, with a later remastered release on Human Records. She then released a second single with Human.
In April 1982, the Belgian record label Crammed Discs released an album containing six songs by Hermine, The World On My Plates, well known for the cover photograph by Richard Rayner-Canham where Hermine loads 7" singles into a dishwasher while wearing a ball gown. She toured in 1982 and 1983. The follow-up album Lonely At The Top was released in July 1984 on her own label (Salomé). Swiss session recordings for another album, along with a couple of re-recordings, were eventually released on Who'll Come Walking in 2008. Her two albums were both re-released in digitally remastered CD editions in 2006 by Les Temps Modernes (LTM).
Although having recorded very little since 1984, viewers of the TV series French & Saunders and Absolutely Fabulous have been able to see her as well as hear her French-accented voice in numerous musical pastiches (she sings a French version of the theme tune at the end of the episode Paris in 2001.)
In April 2008, Hermine released Who'll Come Walking, a new CD album through her label Salomé Discs. She sang in May during a cycle rally that took place between Sacy-le-Petit and Verderonne in l'Oise, France, and on the 11 and 12 June at Andrew Logan's Summer Sale at the GlassHouse in London.
Hermine is to play three dates in Switzerland (Bern, Geneva and Zurich) in November 2008, backed by Ian Hill, Ian Kane and Susie Honeyman.
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