
“My drummer said, ‘You only get one chance to make your 
first album’ and I thought I better make it count then,”
Sister Cookie, singer, songwriter and piano player,
describes her mindset going in to record her debut album 
In The Blue Corner. 
And the results speak for themselves; pivoted towards 
blues, R&B and jazz, its 11 songs, all scribed by Cookie, 
tell her stories, mainly sad and sensitive ones, of 
struggle and hard times faced in and out of love. Her 
lyrics, direct and forceful, are delivered in that hungry 
voice of hers, heavy with experience and imbued with deep 
feeling then wrapped in soulful arrangements with gospel 
accentuated piano and gliding horn section. There are 
influences of course, you can hear hints of Lavern Baker 
and Dinah Washington, Nina Simone and Ruth Brown, but this 
album is cast in her own image.
“It’s Sister Cookie in sound form,” she says, “I’ve lived 
this record, put everything into it, all the emotions, 
everything that’s in my head. It’s my music, my life.”


Unafraid to wear musical roots but with her head firmly in 
the future, Sister Cookie has made a very special record 
indeed, one that illustrates the pillars of emotional life 
and is delivered with potency, empathy and a quiet 
authority.

  Chris Sullivan, is, and has been at various times, a DJ, author, nightclub host, pop star, painter, style commentator, entrepreneur and fashion designer.  Coming to London from Merthyr Tydfil in the mid 70s,he went onto to study art at St Martins than  fronted the high-concept Virgin-signed Latin funk band, Blue Rondo A La Turk. He began DJing aged 14 at local youth clubs and after spinning at his self promoted clubs such as Le Kilt and St.Moritz, he was the founder , host ,director  and DJ at of the world famous Wag Club in London where the likes of Sade, Prince and Lee Perry played live . During the early to mid eighties he DJ'd every club and party worth talking about in London with gigs in Tokyo, New York, La, Paris ,Barcelona, Milan including the Mint bar ,Danceteria,  Plastic  and Ibiza’s Ku Klub .In 1987 he opened Afters in Clink St (4am-12 mid day) where, using one deck and a cassette player, he was one of the first UK DJ's to play pure Chicago House .
In the nineties he DJ'd at parties for amongst many others, Elton John, Jean Paul Gaultier , Comme Des Garcons, Madonna, GQ and Italian Vogue and continued at clubs such as Browns, Pacha , The Limelight  and the Cafe de Paris. As a writer he first worked for  The Face in it’s infancy in 1981,  became a Loaded  columnist  in ‘94 and then GQ style editor .In 2001 ,he became a full time freelance journalist  filing  for among others, The Times, Esquire, Telegraph, Independent, Guardian, and L’Uomo Vogue. Since, his books, Punk and the definitive chronicle of club culture of the 80s, We Can Be Heroes (with Graham Smith), have been warmly received. He has a weekly Sunday DJ residency at Novikov Mayfair, London, another every Thursday at the Playboy Club on Old Park Lane and a first Friday of the month residency  at The Record Club Camden called Swag. He often plays film premier parties and art openings in the city and each year takes a DJ slot at the Vintage festival while his  film script, Anarchy In The UK, is being developed by a Hollywood's Hacienda Films. Most recently he conceived and co wrote a 9 part TV documentary series Gangs of Britain presented by his old chums Martin and Gary Kemp for the Crime and Investigation Channel. 

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