Whatever Happened to Louise Wener?
Monday, November 15, 2004 4:42:44 PM
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Louise Wener spent the nineties fronting britpop band Sleeper, and appeared on posters in the rooms of students all over Britain. We take a look at who she was and where she is now.
Born in Ilford, Essex, but grew up in the suburbs of London, Louise was always the key figure in Sleeper as much as the singer of any band always is. A uniqueness though, is that Louise wrote, or at least co-wrote all of the songs for Sleeper - most of them on her own, such as the top hits Inbetweener, Nice Guy Eddie & What Do I Do Now?.
Louise only learnt to play the guitar when she was 22, after being a few college bands that were going nowhere, and thought she could do better on her own.
Upon the bands growing success, the media could always rely on Louise to provide a contentious comment, successfully able to anger vegetarians & feminists among others. Eventually though, the band was getting places more on the music than the interviews, at least until the limited success of the third album which was mostly Louise's own album, and a downgraded tour which was soon followed by the splitting of the band in early 1998.
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