KatieJane Garside

Katrina Jane Garside{{cite web|work=Universal Music Publishing Group|publisher=Universal Music Group|title=Album Details: "F.M. Doll"|url=https://www.umusicpub.com/nl/Digital-Music-Library/album/75421/fm-doll-single|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230210035610/https://www.umusicpub.com/nl/Digital-Music-Library/album/75421/fm-doll-single|archive-date=10 February 2023}} was born on 8 July 1968{{cite web|work=BBC Music|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|title=Katie Jane Garside|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231074435/https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/ac849983-1a64-4b70-aee1-3dc1fe2b43c7|archive-date=31 December 2017|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/ac849983-1a64-4b70-aee1-3dc1fe2b43c7}}{{cite web|work=NTS Radio|title=Katie Jane Garside Biography|date=21 November 2022|url=https://www.nts.live/artists/124383-katie-jane-garside|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208043656/https://www.nts.live/artists/124383-katie-jane-garside|archive-date=8 February 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://magnetmagazine.com/2022/07/08/happy-birthday-katiejane-garside-daisy-chainsaw-liar-flower-ruby-throat-queenadreena/|work=Magnet|title=Happy Birthday, KatieJane Garside (Daisy Chainsaw, Liar Flower, Ruby Throat, Queenadreena)|author=Magnet Staff|date=8 July 2022|url-status=live|archive-date=8 February 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230208054722/https://magnetmagazine.com/2022/07/08/happy-birthday-katiejane-garside-daisy-chainsaw-liar-flower-ruby-throat-queenadreena/|issn=1088-7806}} in Buckrose, East Riding of Yorkshire, England,{{cite web|url=http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=katrina%20jane&lastname=garside|publisher=Findmypast|title=England & Wales Births 1837-2006: Katrina Jane Garside|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140916154405/http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=katrina%20jane&lastname=garside|archive-date=16 September 2014}}{{cite web|author=England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVW6-LHLB|title=Katrina Jane Garside, 1968|publisher=Birth Registration, Buckrose, Yorkshire, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England|volume=2A|page=53}} {{closed access}} the first of two daughters.[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVW6-LHL1 England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008], 1968; General Register Office, Southport, England; roll 2A, page 53, line 66. Retrieved on 7 June 2018. She spent her early years in Salisbury, Wiltshire,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jun/24/weekend7.weekend12|work=The Guardian|title=The questionnaire: Katie-Jane Garside|series=Life and Style|date=23 June 2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402043533/https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jun/24/weekend7.weekend12|archive-date=2 April 2019|url-status=live|author=Greenstreet, Rosanna}}{{cite interview|work=Artist on Artist|title=Dir En Grey vs. QueenAdreena|year=2008|author=Garside, KatieJane; Kaoru|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SITDTD6eZFc|via=YouTube|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-date=12 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312231727/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SITDTD6eZFc|access-date=5 February 2023}} though her family relocated frequently as her father was in the British Army;{{cite web|work=Vice Media|url=https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/neg94d/katiejane-garside-ruby-throat-interview-2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011014033/https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/neg94d/katiejane-garside-ruby-throat-interview-2018|url-status=live|archive-date=11 October 2018|title=Searching for Utopia: An Interview with KatieJane Garside|author=Garland, Emma|date=8 October 2018|access-date=10 October 2018}} he also had a musical background, having played in local bands in London.Garside, KatieJane. Interview with Daisy Chainsaw. Rapido. BBC2. 1991. When she was 11 years old, Garside's father took the family to live aboard a {{convert|9.8|m|ft|adj=on}} yacht, and they sailed the world for four years.{{cite web|url=http://www.soundspheremag.com/features/legend-of-the-scene-katiejane-garside/|work=Soundsphere Magazine|title=Five Minutes With... KatieJane Garside|date=6 September 2008|access-date=28 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822013953/http://www.soundspheremag.com/features/legend-of-the-scene-katiejane-garside/|archive-date=22 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-07-ca-1268-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|title=The Doomsday Visionary of England's Daisy Chainsaw : Pop music: Don't call Katie Jane Garside pessimistic, however. 'What I feel is a euphoric sense of doom,' she says.|date=7 November 1992|author=Hochman, Steve|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020213428/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-07-ca-1268-story.html|archive-date=20 October 2019|url-status=live}} Garside has said that spending her formative years living on the sea gave her a "different perspective on things": {{blockquote|You have no reference points, so everything you know ceases, including time on the long passages. It’s the same thing every day, relentlessly. There’s nothing to see, there’s no one to talk to. Which is...  terrifying. You’ve got nowhere to hide, you’re literally so exposed. But it’s also very beautiful because all distraction falls away.}}

While living on the sea, Garside and her younger sister, Melanie, spent significant amounts of time listening to cassette tapes given to them by their grandfather, largely soundtrack albums to musical films, such as the West Side Story soundtrack by Leonard Bernstein.{{cite web|work=Medium|title=Algorhythms: KatieJane Garside on Leonard Bernstein|date=27 May 2020|last=Voyce|first=MacEagon|url=https://medium.com/grey-matter/algorhythms-katiejane-garside-on-leonard-bernstein-a92b7c650d8b|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200604221050/https://medium.com/grey-matter/algorhythms-katiejane-garside-on-leonard-bernstein-a92b7c650d8b|archive-date=4 June 2020|url-status=live}} To pass time, they would often reenact sequences from the film soundtracks with ragdolls. Among the tapes Garside listened to also included albums by Led Zeppelin, which she said "really completes some idea of a story."

After returning to England, Garside's father went abroad to earn money, as the family had returned from sea with "about fifty pounds".{{sfn|Shea|2020|loc=18:14}} Garside's younger sister Melanie was subsequently enrolled in a boarding school where, while in her dormitory, she played a cassette tape of Garside singing along to "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac; record producer and engineer Glyn Johns, whose daughter was also enrolled in the school, was visiting and overheard the tape. Impressed by her singing, Johns contacted Garside, inviting her to join his son, Ethan, who was beginning to make music.{{sfn|Shea|2020|loc=19:00–19:56}} Garside, who had recently been offered a scholarship to attend art school, forewent her enrollment and instead spent approximately a year collaborating with Ethan at his father's studio, writing and recording material, which she later described as "atrocious... but we were learning, you know? Learning all of the time. Ethan and I were going to go off to L.A. and become rock stars—and then it all fell apart, as it should do when you're sixteen years old."{{sfn|Shea|2020|loc=19:00–19:56}} She subsequently relocated to London,{{cite web|url=http://euterpesnotebook.com/2012/07/31/o-canals-o-london-an-interview-with-ruby-throats-katiejane-garside/|work=Euterpe's Notebook|title=O Canals! O London: An Interview with KatieJane Garside|date=31 July 2012|access-date=24 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909143354/http://euterpesnotebook.com/2012/07/31/o-canals-o-london-an-interview-with-ruby-throats-katiejane-garside/|archive-date=9 September 2013}} working odd jobs while seeking to make a living as a singer.{{sfn|Shea|2020|loc=20:04–21:00}}

{{Main|Daisy Chainsaw}}

Garside formed Daisy Chainsaw in 1989 after responding to an advert in a newspaper by guitarist Crispin Gray.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rockdetector.com/artist/uk/daisy+chainsaw|work=Rock Detector|title=Daisy Chainsaw|year=2009|access-date=29 December 2010}} Bassist Richard Adams joined the band, along with Canadian drummer Vince Johnson. The group quickly became well known for their raucous live performances,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/feb/27/hidden-treasures-daisy-chainsaw-eleventeen|work=The Guardian|title=Hidden treasures: Daisy Chainsaw - Eleventeen|date=27 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815131455/https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/feb/27/hidden-treasures-daisy-chainsaw-eleventeen|archive-date=15 August 2018|author=Andrews, Charlotte Richardson}} and her appearance described as a "Gothic street urchin image, complete with dead flowers meshed into her dreadlocked hair". In a review of one of the band's concerts in 1991, an unnamed journalist for Bust magazine wrote: "KatieJane Garside is either in drastic need of psychiatric help or she deserves an Oscar for best actress."{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RjciAQAAMAAJ&q=daisy+chainsaw|journal=Bust|date=2005|issue=34–36|page=94|issn=1089-4713|title=Queen Adreena}}

The band toured the United Kingdom with Hole and Mudhoney to promote the album prior to its release, and Garside drew comparisons from British press to Hole's frontwoman Courtney Love. Love allegedly cited Garside as one of the "first true riot grrrls" in 1991 and admitted to borrowing heavily from Garside's aesthetic. Garside never associated herself with the movement, which was based in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

The band released Eleventeen in 1992, which would be their only full-length album before Garside left the band in 1993. The album spawned "Love Your Money", which was the band's most popular single; they performed the song live on British television show The Word in 1992. "Love Your Money" reached number 26 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1992.{{Sfn|Roberts|2006|p=138}}

After Garside left Daisy Chainsaw, she disappeared from the public eye and music scene, going into seclusion, residing in the Lake District.{{cite web|url=http://www.rockdetector.com/artist/uk/queen+adreena|work=Rock Detector|title=MusicMight :: Artists :: QUEENADREENA|date=2009|access-date=23 September 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404201159/http://www.rockdetector.com/artist/uk/queen+adreena|archive-date=4 April 2016|df=dmy-all}} A self-described recluse, Garside later commented that "I could be anywhere, really, and it wouldn't make a lot of difference, so I don't know necessarily that much about the country that I was born in and that I've lived in." Due to her manic onstage histrionics and bizarre behaviour in interviews, rumours circulated that Garside had succumbed to mental illness. In later years, she admitted that she had been suffering a nervous breakdown at the time. She lived in the historical Rigg Beck, a notorious retreat for artists and bohemians.{{cite web|url=http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.132920|date=1 July 2008|title=Landmark Lakes House Destroyed By Fire Was 'Home' To Stars|work=News and Star|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016170103/http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.132920|archive-date=16 October 2015|df=dmy-all}}

In retrospect, Garside commented that, had she not left the band, "it would have killed me...  Because I didn't write the songs [in Daisy Chainsaw] I could never give enough, never go far enough. I couldn't bleed in words, I couldn't bleed in lyrics—I could only bleed in performance, and that meant attacking [myself], literally."{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118408695/|work=Cannock Chase Post|date=14 October 1999|page=38|title=Right royal return|via=Newspapers.com}}

While living in the Lake District, Garside began to write her own material,{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118408807/|date=14 October 1999|page=34|title=Chainsaw girl set to slay new audience|last=Slater|first=Heather|via=Newspapers.com|work=Burntwood Mercury}} as well as collaborating with the industrial band Test Department in 1995 on their album Totality.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/totality-mw0000182895|title=Totality – Test Department|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200604221823/https://www.allmusic.com/album/totality-mw0000182895|archive-date=4 June 2020|url-status=live|work=AllMusic}}

{{Main|Queenadreena}}

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Garside had no intentions of returning to music until the late 1990s when she returned to London and was contacted by former guitarist Crispin Gray; in 1999,{{Sfn|Slade|2015|pages=170–71}} they formed Queenadreena and released a total of four studio albums over the following decade: Taxidermy (2000), Drink Me (2002), The Butcher and the Butterfly (2005), and Djin.{{cite web|work=AllMusic|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/queenadreena-mn0000329446/discography|title=QueenAdreena|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200606181305/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/queenadreena-mn0000329446/discography|archive-date=6 June 2020|url-status=live}} Some time between 1999 and 2002, during the early stages of Queenadreena, Garside resided in Wales for a brief period.

In 2003, Garside contributed guest vocals to the track "Last Leaf Upon the Tree" on the group Minus's album Halldor Laxness.{{cite journal|journal=CMJ New Music Monthly|title=Minus: Halldor Laxness|last=Swiatecki|first=Chris|date=August 2003|page=55|issue=115|issn=1074-6978}}

After recording Live at the ICA, which featured a live 2005 performance by Queenadreena at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the band released two more albums, Ride a Cockhorse, a compilation which featured unreleased 4-track demos, and Djin, which was their final studio release before disbanding around 2009.

Garside's solo work of this time includes a collection of home recordings called Lalleshwari/Lullabies in a Glasswilderness released in 2006. Complementing this release was a collection of short films made by KatieJane.{{cite web|url=http://www.katiejanegarside.com/lalleshwari.html

|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713141628/http://www.katiejanegarside.com/lalleshwari.html|title=Lullabies in a Glass Wilderness|work=KatieJaneGarside.com|access-date=12 June 2018|archive-date=13 July 2011}}

{{Main|Ruby Throat}}

In 2007, shortly before the release of Queenadreena's final album Djin, Garside formed the musical duo Ruby Throat with Chris Whittingham, an American guitarist from Hawaii{{cite web|date=9 November 2018|url=https://www.ibs.it/stone-dress-vinile-ruby-throat/e/5016958088699|work=La Feltrinelli IBS|language=it|title=Stone Dress – Ruby Throat|url-status=live|archive-date=4 February 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230204212149/https://www.ibs.it/stone-dress-vinile-ruby-throat/e/5016958088699}} whom she met while he was busking at a train platform on London Underground.{{cite web|url=http://blogcritics.org/music-review-ruby-throat-the-ventriloquist/|work=Blog Critics|title=Music Review: Ruby Throat - The Ventriloquist|date=8 September 2009|author=Perkins, Jeff|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005044802/http://blogcritics.org/music-review-ruby-throat-the-ventriloquist/|archive-date=5 October 2015}} Garside commented that her encounter with Whittingham came "after being on my knees on the floor, praying for an intervention, because everything [was] so fused and knotted. And I needed a cosmic intervention—but it happened, in fact, that day. I found him, and he’s so extraordinary at everything."

The duo released their first album, The Ventriloquist, in November 2007. In contrast to Queenadreena's metal and noise rock style, Ruby Throat is a more ethereal, vocal based project primarily featuring acoustic guitar. The album was well-received, and critics drew comparisons to the work of PJ Harvey and Mazzy Star.{{cite web|url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/94281-ruby-throat-the-ventriloquist/|work=PopMatters|title=Ruby Throat: The Ventriloquist|date=18 June 2009|author=Martin, Erin Lyndal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816064625/https://www.popmatters.com/94281-ruby-throat-the-ventriloquist-2496030444.html|archive-date=16 August 2018}}

The following year, Corps Electriques, a collaboration album between Garside and French composer Hector Zazou, was released through Signature Records. Ruby Throat subsequently released Tour EP in 2009, which featured handmade artwork, followed by their second full-length record, Out of a Black Cloud Came a Bird (2009). Ruby Throat toured internationally during this period, opening for Rasputina in the United States.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118409169/|work=San Francisco Examiner|title=Ruby Throat reveals KatieJane's softer side|date=26 March 2009|page=A26|last=Lanham|first=Tom|via=Newspapers.com}}

In 2012, they released their third album, O' Doubt O' Stars, which featured a limited edition packaging with a book of lithographs and Garside's art, as well as handwritten lyrics.{{cite web|url=http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p07968.htm|work=Acoustic Music|title=FAME Review: Ruby Throat - O' Doubt O' Stars|date=2012|editor=Pyles, David N.|access-date=2 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324210022/http://acousticmusic.com/fame/p07968.htm|archive-date=24 March 2016}} In April of the same year, the band announced they were recording new material via their official Facebook page.{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/katiejanegarsiderubythroat/posts/348676551834703|work=Facebook|title=deer friends... so a RUBY THROAT update of sorts....o'doubt o'stars is out into the world and no longer at the back of the knicker drawer....to all who have taken part in this endeavor thankyou thankyou, your lovely words and encouragement are my connection to the world|date=7 April 2012|url-status=live|archive-date=5 February 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230205084553/https://www.facebook.com/katiejanegarsiderubythroat/posts/348676551834703}} In 2014 a new track, "Secret Fires", was released on the third Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions compilation Axels & Sockets.{{cite web|title=Axels & Sockets: The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project|url=http://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/axels-sockets-the-jeffrey-lee-pierce-sessions-project|website=Record Collector|issn=0261-250X|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140806095319/http://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/axels-sockets-the-jeffrey-lee-pierce-sessions-project|archive-date=6 August 2014}}

In November 2016, Garside announced the forthcoming release of a limited edition book of 34 poems entitled A whispering frayed edge in 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.katiejanegarside.com/shop.html|work=KatieJaneGarside.com|title=Shop|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161216190819/http://www.katiejanegarside.com/shop.html|archive-date=16 December 2016}} In November 2017, Ruby Throat released their fourth studio album, Baby Darling Taporo.{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/katiejanegarsiderubythroat/photos/a.165994893503993.23595.165516170218532/1166992346737571/?type=3&theater|via=Facebook|publisher=Ruby Throat|title=rubythroat 'baby darling taporo' digital release March 2nd|date=22 February 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180223181935/https://www.facebook.com/katiejanegarsiderubythroat/photos/a.165994893503993.23595.165516170218532/1166992346737571/?type=3&theater|archive-date=23 February 2018}} Garside granted an extensive interview to Vice in October 2018, during which she divulged that she and Whittingham still resided on Iona with their children, and that they had recently completed an extensive sailing trip across the world.

In April 2020, Garside and Whittingham released a full-length album, Geiger Counter, under a new musical project named Liar, Flower.{{cite web|work=PopMatters|date=28 April 2020|url=https://www.popmatters.com/liar-flower-geiger-counter-2645863552.html|title=Liar, Flower's Eclectic, Electric 'Geiger Counter' Arrives (album stream + premiere)|last=Beaudoin|first=Jedd|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200521220930/https://www.popmatters.com/liar-flower-geiger-counter-2645863552.html|archive-date=21 May 2020}}

Garside held a mixed media art exhibition at the WOOM Gallery in Birmingham in 2007, titled Darling, they've found the body, featuring a collection of photographs, film, and other visual works.{{sfn|Chandler|Anselmo|2015|p=77}}{{cite web|url=http://woom.co.uk/Katiejane-Garside|work=WOOM Gallery|title=Darling, they've found the body|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724103634/http://woom.co.uk/Darling-theyve-found-the-body|archive-date=24 July 2012}}

In 2005, Garside collaborated with comics artist Daniel Schaffer on the graphic novella Indigo Vertigo, published by Image Comics in August 2007.{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblio.com/book/indigo-vertigo-katiejane-garside/d/1371249133|work=Biblio.com|title=Indigo Vertigo by KatieJane Garside – August 2005|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230208041300/https://www.biblio.com/book/indigo-vertigo-katiejane-garside/d/1371249133|archive-date=8 February 2023}} Describing the graphic novel, Schaffer said it is "designed to communicate on a number of different levels. KatieJane's words are hypnotic and they cut to the bone, but they're always in motion, the meanings varying with each reading."{{cite web|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230211191734/https://www.diamondcomics.com/Article/19541-Dogwitch-Creator-Debuts-Indigo-Vertigo-at-Image-in-August|archive-date=11 February 2023|title=Dogwitch Creator Debuts Indigo Vertigo at Image in August|work=Diamond Comics Distributors|url=https://www.diamondcomics.com/Article/19541-Dogwitch-Creator-Debuts-Indigo-Vertigo-at-Image-in-August}}

In 2017, a book profiling Garside's career was released entitled Under a Floorboard World: The Career of Katie Jane Garside. It was released via Breakbeat Books, which is the publishing name of independent author Charlie Bramley. The book "provides a long overdue exploration into the career of Garside, offering rich analysis and original insight". It also features an original interview with Garside, undertaken during the writing period.{{cite web|last1=Bramley|first1=Charlie|title=Under a Floorboard World: The Career of Katie Jane Garside|url=https://www.breakbeatbooks.com/product-page/under-a-floorboard-world-the-career-of-katie-jane-garside|website=Breakbeat Books|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230208041325/https://www.breakbeatbooks.com/product-page/under-a-floorboard-world-the-career-of-katie-jane-garside|archive-date=8 February 2023}} The same year, she issued A whispering frayed edge, a poetry collection released in a limited edition run.{{cite web|url=https://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2020/06/30/the-fishing-hook-in-the-void-an-interview-with-katiejane-garside/|work=God Is in the TV|title=The Fishing Hook in the Void: An interview with KatieJane Garside|last=White|first=Wes|date=30 June 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201219064232/https://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2020/06/30/the-fishing-hook-in-the-void-an-interview-with-katiejane-garside/|archive-date=19 December 2020}}

{{quote box|align=right|width=22%|quote= I’m a meditator. I have my stories, and I have my narrative, and I’m happy with that. And I’m happy to share it, although I don’t expect everyone to buy into it. But I think that there’s power in stories, so I talk to my people and I take directives from them, and they change shape quite a lot. But I give myself over to them, particularly in creating my own narrative through my music.|source=–Garside on her relationship to her audience, 2020}}

Garside has been noted by critics for her unique vocals, which alternate from "childlike whispers" to harsh scream singing,{{cite web|url=http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/MagSitePages/Review/2830/R/Queen-Adreena-CD-The-Butcher-And-The-Butterfly|work=Pennyblackmusic|author=Tipping, Helen|date=7 July 2005|access-date=28 August 2017|title=Queen Adreena - The Butcher and the Butterfly|archive-date=29 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829135233/http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/MagSitePages/Review/2830/R/Queen-Adreena-CD-The-Butcher-And-The-Butterfly|url-status=dead}} particularly on her work with Queenadreena; a concert review published by The Guardian noted: "It's surprising that such a loud noise can come from such a small person."{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2005/03/18/entertainment_music_reviews_2005_03_queen_adreena_feature.shtml|publisher=BBC|title=Queen Adreena @ Rock City 17/3/04|author=Finch, Katie|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204035128/http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2005/03/18/entertainment_music_reviews_2005_03_queen_adreena_feature.shtml|archive-date=4 December 2017|date=18 March 2004}} "I do strain my voice doing bad work," Garside commented, "[but] sometimes the impulse is too huge [and] I just have to."{{cite web|url=http://www.adequacy.net/2010/06/interview-with-ruby-throat/|work=Delusions of Inadequacy|title=Interview with Ruby Throat|date=9 June 2010|author=Dan, Jen|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815131537/http://www.adequacy.net/2010/06/interview-with-ruby-throat/|archive-date=15 August 2018}} Some critics have likened her vocals to those of Macy Gray.

Lyrically, consistent themes across Garside's various musical projects have included exploitation, sexuality, childhood, and innocence. While Garside's musical output with Daisy Chainsaw and Queenadreena were marked by abrasive, rock and metal-influenced instrumentation and vocals, her work with Ruby Throat is more restrained; a review published in PopMatters noted: "Garside’s breathy, nearly childlike voice is the dominant element of [Ruby Throat's debut] The Ventriloquist, gentle acoustic guitars and lap steels setting the stage for her voice. Despite the somber lyrical themes, this is a clear heir to the lineage of ethereal makeout albums like those from Mazzy Star and the Cocteau Twins."

In her early career, Garside spoke little of her influences, musical or otherwise. However, during a 1992 interview with Paul Morley, she said she liked Carly Simon.{{cite interview|first=Paul|last=Morley|author-link=Paul Morley|title=Daisy Chainsaw and KatieJane Garside|interviewer=KatieJane Garside|publisher=Wall to Wall Television|work=The Paul Morley Show|year=1992}} In a 2020 interview with American Songwriter, she divulged that one of her earliest musical inspirations was Petula Clark's "Downtown", as well as the works of Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac.{{cite web|url=https://americansongwriter.com/katiejane-garside-five-encounters-with-performative-arts-that-changed-my-life/|work=American Songwriter|title=Katiejane Garside: Five Encounters with Performative Arts That Changed My Life|archive-url=https://archive.today/20221117030702/https://americansongwriter.com/katiejane-garside-five-encounters-with-performative-arts-that-changed-my-life/|archive-date=17 November 2022|last=Zollo|first=Paul|date=2020|issn=0896-8993}} She has also stated she is an admirer of Courtney Love, whose band, Hole, Garside toured with while performing in Daisy Chainsaw: "[She is] a force of nature. I adore her. I'm in awe of her...  She is so powerful...  I'm so grateful to have been there and shared all the grimy dressing rooms with her."{{sfn|Shea|2020|loc=23:12–25:20}}

In a 2020 interview, Garside cited Nico's The Marble Index (1968) as a seminal influence on her work.{{sfn|Elba|2020|loc=approx. 2:00–49:00}}

Garside has been noted throughout her career for her raucous, "carnivalesque" live performances. Describing her in 1999, the Evening Standard wrote: "With her eerie voice and piercing eyes, Garside is one of the scariest women in alternative music."{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118408898/|date=2 November 1999|work=Evening Standard|page=51|title=Tomorrow Only: Music – Queen Adreena|via=Newspapers.com}} While in Daisy Chainsaw, she engaged in spectacles such as drilling doll heads onstage and drinking juice out of baby bottles.{{sfn|Chandler|Anselmo|2015|p=72}} The group's raucous concerts would sometimes result in Garside performing self-mutilation onstage.{{Sfn|O'Brien|2012|p=166}} Russell Senior, guitarist of Pulp, recalled that at one 1989 concert in London, Garside wrapped the microphone cord so tightly around her neck onstage that she lost consciousness, and the show had to be ended early.{{Sfn|Senior|2015|p=1}}

Commenting on live performances, she said in 2002: "I know what turns me on, and it's that fine line, that point where you're falling off the edge of a cliff, where your stomach turns, I'm always trying to find that point in music. You rarely hit it, and again, that's the joy of playing live, because there you can be just at that point where you've lost balance. I'm always walking between polarities, trying to find the opposing sides."{{cite web|url=http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4562-i-want-to-have-a-past|work=Drowned in Sound|title="I want to have a past"|author=Cameron, Liane|date=9 August 2002|access-date=1 September 2017|archive-date=30 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830104521/http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4562-i-want-to-have-a-past|url-status=dead}} In her early career, Garside's stage presence was noted by critics for its disheveled appearance, marked by torn clothing and her body covered in dirt. Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian writing in 1992: "In clinical terms, Garside is probably no loopier than Belinda Carlisle, but her fizzing nervousness imparts a sense of great fragility, and her candour is almost embarrassing."{{cite news|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22821252/the_guardian/|page=28|last=Sullivan|first=Caroline|via=Newspapers.com|date=27 February 1992|title=Rock's savage sorority}}

Despite her often animated and aggressive performances, Garside has admitted to having stage fright, particularly in her early career: "I feel things really intensely, and the absolute horror of walking onstage—you know, that sort of sense of exposure and being on a precipice...it just flicked a switch in me...  if I got out of my own way and stopped trying to try, I just had access to a big 'let[ting] go.'"{{sfn|Shea|2020|loc=21:36}} In a 2003 interview, she elaborated:

{{blockquote|I think taking the stage is one of the most unnatural things anyone can do. In a way, just walking on stage actually creates an altered state—it's not right, no one's meant to do that, unless you're a priest or a magician, or something like that. To put somebody who's very incapable in many ways in to that position creates a combustion reaction inside me. I know that, and I take the stage knowing that... The beauty of playing live is when my drummer goes in to 5th gear or in to 10th gear, and for some reason there's something that hits me in the base of the spine and I'm gone, and that's Hallelujah for me.{{cite web|work=Repeat Fanzine|author1=Watson, Lucy|author2=Morrison, Laura|author3=Bage, Tom|date=2003|title=An Interview with KatieJane Garside|url=https://www.repeatfanzine.co.uk/interviews/queen%20adreena.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031101121528/https://www.repeatfanzine.co.uk/interviews/queen%20adreena.htm|archive-date=1 November 2003}}}}

In 2011, Garside gave birth to a daughter, Leilani, with her partner and musical collaborator Chris Whittingham, who also has a son from a previous relationship.{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2020/05/katie-jane-garside-interview-liar-flower/|work=Spin|title=Katie Jane Garside On Why She Took A Break From Sailing Around The World By Boat To Record A New Album|last=Lanham|first=Tom|date=28 May 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200606031902/https://www.spin.com/2020/05/katie-jane-garside-interview-liar-flower/|archive-date=6 June 2020}} As of 2012, the couple resided on a ketch named Iona, along with their two children, then aged 10 years and 10 months. The boat was damaged in a storm in St Mawes, Cornwall in June 2012; they made repairs in Falmouth{{cite news|url=http://www.pbo.co.uk/news/yacht-survives-crashing-into-harbour-wall-4295|title=Yacht survives crashing into harbour wall|work=Practical Boat Owner|issn=0032-6348|date=14 June 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230205083214/https://www.pbo.co.uk/news/yacht-survives-crashing-into-harbour-wall-4295|archive-date=5 February 2023}} and left England shortly afterwards with the intention to sail around the world.

Garside revealed in a 2020 interview that, throughout her touring career, she spent approximately a decade "drinking really heavily" and that she felt the discussion of "drugs and abstinence is huge, for all of us," adding: "These days, I drink very, very little... I meditate, and that's what gets me high... [I think] you do have to possibly go through it a little bit to find your way out. It's taken me a long time to find the root, but I've found it and it certainly doesn't involve drugs or alcohol at this point in my life."{{sfn|Elba|2020|loc=41:58–42:44}}

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Daisy Chainsaw

• LoveSickPleasure (1991) {{double dagger|alt=Extended play}}
• Pink Flower (1992) {{double dagger|alt=Extended play}}
• Eleventeen (1992)

Queenadreena

• Taxidermy (2000)
• Drink Me (2002)
• The Butcher and the Butterfly (2005)
• Live at the ICA (2005)
• Ride a Cock Horse (2007)
• Djin (2008)

Solo

• Lalleshwari/Lullabies in a Glasswilderness (2005) {{small|(Boxset included an audio CD and a DVD. This version was limited to 300, with the first 100 being signed and numbered)}}
• Lalleshwari/Lullabies in a Glass Wilderness (2006) {{small|(Version did not include a DVD but included two different tracks from the previous release)}}
• Corps Electriques (2007) {{small|(Collaboration with Hector Zazou)}}{{cite web|work=AllMusic|title=Corps Electriques|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230205090048/https://www.allmusic.com/album/corps-electriques-mw0001290004|archive-date=5 February 2023|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/corps-electriques-mw0001290004}}

Ruby Throat

• The Ventriloquist (2007) {{small|(Version limited to 500, signed and numbered)}}{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100225145756/http://katiejanegarside.com/rubythroat.html|archive-date=25 February 2010|url=http://katiejanegarside.com:80/rubythroat.html|work=KatieJaneGarside.com|title=Ruby Throat|access-date=9 July 2017|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
• Tour EP (2009) {{double dagger|alt=Extended play}} {{small|(Limited Edition handmade 5-track EP sold exclusively on their 2009 tour, including 2 photographs)}}
• Out of a Black Cloud Came a Bird (2009) {{small|(Version limited to 500 number copies, including 10 fine art prints, 5 photographs and a personal effect)}}{{cite web|url=http://www.katiejanegarside.com:80/shop.html|title=Shop|work=KatieJaneGarside.com|access-date=28 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106021001/http://www.katiejanegarside.com/shop.html|archive-date=6 January 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
• O' Doubt O' Stars (2012) {{small|(34-page ribboned and hand assembled litho printed art book, 12 songs, 55 minutes, 500 numbered copies) and (Albums 1–10, handwritten cover, signed and numbered, KJG original handwritten lyrics of 1 of the 12 songs (these were used in making the finished artwork litho plates). There are only 10 of these in total, and include 1 song lyric sheet each with the first 10 albums, and a signed and numbered photo)}}{{cite web|url=http://www.katiejanegarside.com:80/shop.html|title=Shop|work=KatieJaneGarside.com|access-date=28 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131118172228/http://katiejanegarside.com/shop.html|archive-date=18 November 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
• The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project: Axels & Sockets {{small|(Various artists compilation featuring Ruby Throat's cover of Secret Fires by The Gun Club)}}
• Baby Darling Taporo (2017)
• Stone Dress (2018) {{double dagger|alt=Extended play}}

Liar, Flower

• Geiger Counter (2020)

Collaborations

• Creaming Jesus – Dead Time (1991) {{double dagger|alt=Extended play}}
• Creaming Jesus – Guilt By Association (1992)
• Frostbite – The Second Coming (1993)
• The Sacred Sawdust Ring – The Greatest Show Of Truth (1994)
• Test Dept – Totality 1 (1995)
• Test Dept – Totality (1995)
• Test Dept – Totality 1 & 2: The Mixes (1997)
• Mínus – Halldór Laxness (2004)
• Ghostigital – In Cod We Trust (2006)
• Stories From The Moon – Stories From The Moon (2006)
• Jeff Zentner – The Dying Days Of Summer (2009)
• Kittens in the Bin – Yellow Snake (2021)https://parkingstone93.bandcamp.com/track/kittens-in-the-bin-yellow-snake

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• {{cite podcast|last=Elba|first=Rob|date=July 2020|title=Nico: "The Marble Index" with KatieJane Garside|url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/2dXub25fqEyQxMLrjo8Obq|via=Spotify|work=That Record Got Me High Podcast|access-date=8 February 2023}}
• {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XdVIKbO7G80C&q=katiejane+garside&pg=PT422|title=She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music|year=2012|edition=3rd|last=O'Brien|first=Lucy|publisher=Jawbone Press|isbn=978-1-908-27927-9|location=London}}
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• {{cite podcast|last=Shea|first=Marc|date=2020|work=Performance Anxiety|title=KatieJane Garside (Liar, Flower; Daisy Chainsaw)|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/katiejane-garside-liar-flower-daisy-chainsaw/id1418811854?i=1000478589011|via=Apple Podcasts|access-date=8 February 2023}}
• {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g7KcCwAAQBAJ&q=katiejane+garside&pg=PT90|year=2015|last=Slade|first=Paul|title=Unprepared To Die: America's Greatest Murder Ballads And The True Crime Stories That Inspired Them|publisher=Soundcheck Books|isbn=978-0-992-94807-8|location=London}}

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