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Lauren Fownes
My second love was choreography, it seemed so naturally linked to songwriting. I remember a couple of my works including the music being used in school shows.
Jacquie Johnson recalls Lauren's first work to music from Michael Jackson's Off The Wall album and another, for a trio of dancers to Neil Diamond's Hello. We also notice in the 1984 programme for Overture and Beginner's Please! a choreographed demonstration of modern dance with music and lyrics by Lauren called Next Move and You, Me, Why? - she also performed all the songs. She was in the 5th Year.
Jacquie also commented on Lauren's maturity, "She seemed so grown up compared to the others in the class and fun to have around." And Sophie Corbett, "Where do I start? She was sexy and very beautiful, seemed very mature and talented and had a wicked sense of humour!"
My mature attitude probably had psychological origins. Both my parents were frustrated ex-performers who were madly in love. My father was a vaudeville comedian and my mother a model. From the age of 2 I knew that I could get their complete attention by being brilliant at anything to do with the Arts. I was therefore driven like the snow to make it and win their approval and love! Quite a heavy burden for a kid, self-imposed within my own mind I'm sure. Also, even at the age of 11, I knew I had to get out of suburbia or I would die. So I'd have to use what God had given me to achieve that! I had stopped boarding by 15 thinking that at home I could have boyfriends, get my washing done and have the weekends away from school! Sophie lived quite close so we would meet at East Croydon to make the daily journey - I loved this and we were always laughing, pulling gruesome faces at boys waiting on the platforms (there must have been about 12 stops to East Grinstead) and, apart from the odd 'flasher' we felt safe together!
A lucky break at 15 found me on the Russell Harty Show, 'Young Stars of Tomorrow', with other Bush girls. They featured a ballet piece I'd choreographed. I also got to open the show singing Fame because someone was ill. After that I was hooked on the music business and with help from my brother's best friend who had a recording studio I started making demos of my songs.
I left Bush aged 17 and joined a band called Shi Shi Ha Ha along with Stephanie Jarron, a wonderful pianist and Deputy Headgirl at school. We had a wonderful 9 months of recording sessions working with some big names - I loved the whole process of studio work. I left the band to go solo when EMI signed me with the view to being a young Kate Bush.
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