BIOGRAPHY

Ms. Lucas had everything on her mind but a musical career when she sang off her sorrows, whilst her brother Shem played guitar. It was a way to come to terms with the death of a good friend. Modestly, they recorded a few songs and put them on the internet, just like so many young people do nowadays.

While Shem always played in bands, Dion was more ambitious in drawing, photography and literature. That the bits and bytes of “Don‘t Worry“ would bite their way through the global datastream connected by countless blogs, adds and links, over Tokyo, New York and Paris, to finally find open ears in the Hazelwood Studios was simply not predictable.

The minutes while I was trying as a non-native speaker to find my way through the London dialect, to say something clever without making a bad impression, must have seemed terribly naïve. Ms Dion October Lucas didn´t let it show and I give her a great credit for that. I don´t know who was more surprised after we passed the linguistic barrier, Ms. Lucas, about the fact of my nightly phone call, or me, about the fact, that Ms Lucas was not ambitious musically at this point, besides the few songs she had cast into the Global datastream.

In the next few months, it took a bundle of emails to convince Dion and her brother Shem about the seriousness of the matter, to write 12 additional songs and catch an airplane to Frankfurt. That Dion and Shem are the offspring of british punk-icon Soo Catwoman, Dion mentioned only incidentally at the end of the recordings for BOON. (Soo´s impact on the upcoming London punk scene in the early 70s and on bands like The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Billy Idol, Siouxsie Sioux, etc. is verified in numerous documentaries like The Punk Road Movie / D. Letts 1979, The Great Rock´n´Roll Swindle / J. Temple 1980, or in the “Rockumentary” The Filth And The Fury / J. Temple 2000 – Soo also once appeared in The Simpsons!)