History
Mambo Taxi were inspired by the UK garage rock scene and US punk. Their sound was a mixture of garage, punk, and pop and they also had links to British riot grrrl bands such as Huggy Bear. Drummer Anjali Bhatia left in 1992 in order to form the Voodoo Queens and guitarist Ella Guru joined her in 1993. The other members of the 1992 line-up appearing on the first single were Lenie (bass/vocals), Delia (guitar/vocals), Andrea (organ/vocals). Karin Rapp played drums after Anjali's departure, starting with the second single.
The band's name was taken from the film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and was a reference to the Mambo Taxi used by the film's heroine. Ella Guru, in an interview with NME’s Sam Stallard in 1992, described it as “tacky” but “with all sorts of different things in it that sort of clash, but everything’s useful as well as fun.” Lenie is from Belgium, Ella from Ohio, whilst Delia and Andrea are British.
Following the bands dissolution, Delia went on to be in The Phantom Pregnancies along with members of Huggy Bear and Wat Tyler, and has proved to be the most prolific of the band, later appearing in the line-up of Baby Birkin and the Family Way.
As of 2008, Andrea and Delia are in The Nuns, which is a cover band which plays songs by The Monks; also in the band is Debbie Smith, formerly of Echobelly and Curve.
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