MOST TALENTED CELEBRITIES
LAUREN FIELD
Lauren continued to dance and sing, blissfully unaware that the audience was getting more than they bargained for. When, after what seemed to me like an eternity, she realised what had happened, she didn’t bat an eyelid. Simply continued to smile (in her Lady Godiva stylie) turned to face her band (a very happy band indeed) re-assembled her attire and finished the performance. It was probably the biggest round of applause Randy Bachman has ever had for “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”. My next story again illustrates Lauren’s commitment to her craft. During the Nineties, Lauren spent much of her time touring the country with the eight-piece band she had at the time. It was hard, hard work – playing all sorts of different venues, dragging with them instruments, back line, P.A. and all the usual paraphernalia. When she became pregnant with her first child, she continued to work without any let up. The only thing that changed was how much room she took up on stage. Her last performance was at a huge beer festival where she and the band rocked out for an hour and a half. A week later she gave birth to a son. Lauren is a mother of two. Her son, Gabriel, is now ten years old and her daughter, India is 6. She manages to combine the life of a busy, suburban mum totally involved with her kids and their active lives, with the manic schedule of a recording artist whose career is really taking off. She is very down to earth about it, just saying that she’s no different from any other working mum. I think this is why so many women relate to her and why she is able to reach out and touch people with her work. Years ago, Lauren and her band were booked to play what they were told by the agency, was a very up market, stylish corporate event. On arrival at the venue, it didn’t take them long to realise that a mix up had occurred.
They were approached by a woman in a neck to ankle floral dress. On closer inspection, she was naked but for a bikini and tattooed from head to toe. This was an international Tattoo and Body piercing expose. Men wearing nothing but string vests, with dangling chains, ships anchors and piercing on display in unmentionable places strutted past. Once inside the venue, there was no escape. The job had to be done and classy renditions of “Fly me to the Moon” flew out the window to be replaced by 10000 decibels of “Lick My Love Pump” etc. to a frenzied crowd resembling the alien bar from Star Wars. The only things out of place were the band’s tuxedos and Lauren’s evening dress. The strange thing is, they were re-booked for the following year for double the money. Never did find out how “Bleeding Death Mask” were received at the Fuji corporate event."Lauren has recently released her debut solo album “Modern Woman” to wide acclaim in the UK and she has now signed a Pan-European record deal with major German label ZYX Records. Blast Records in association with ABC Australia now want to sign “Modern Woman” to a considerable deal for the Austral Asian territories. The album was produced by long term partner Charles Foskett and together they are now working on exciting new material for her follow up album. They love the creative buzz which comes from working with other professionals and enjoy in particular productive co-writing sessions for various projects with good friend and long time co/writer Randy Bachman (Bachman Turner Overdrive/The Guess Who). Also multi hit UK writer Peter Callander and Los Angeles based writer Amy Powers (Sunset Boulevard / Barbara Streisand). New co/writes are in the pipeline with hit writer Chris Difford (Squeeze) and Mick Taylor (The Rolling Stones/The Allman Brothers/Little Feat). Lauren’s other recent song writing assignments are for “4 Poofs and a Piano” (who feature regularly each week on BBC’s “The Jonathan Ross Show”). She also has song cuts on the debut album of Sweden’s hot new jazz singer “Caroline W” and also America’s top country artist TG Sheppard. What with forthcoming European tours and record release, writing and recording her next album, the demands of her growing family this Modern Woman is likely to be very busy for the foreseeable future. Charles Foskett produced a double album called “The Anti-Heroin Project. A kind of Band Aid to raise money and awareness for people whose lives had been afflicted by the spectre of drug abuse. “I just got the gig, with another singer, to do all the back up vocals. Everyone who was anyone at that time was on that album. So of course it was a great networking experience and for the rest of the eighties and into the early nineties my mate Lizzie and I did tons of sessions. We were on Top of the Pops, Pebble Mill, The Tube, Wogan (all the big music programmes of the time) and we did loads of radio and live stuff. We also formed a band called “Duchess” and that was when I started writing songs.”
Lauren Field made the cover of World Art Celebrities Journal December Issue 2004. To read more about this splendid singer, read the in-depth article about Field and our interview with her at http://www.worldartcelebritiesjournal.com
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