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LeLuLus Deni and Timekode

It has been an absolute joy and a pleasure compiling my online scrapbooks about The Jam over the last 18 months or so, but for this blog post I am returning once more to the pages of Kindred Spirit. Members of several of the bands I featured in my fanzines went on to achieve success with other bands and projects. I thought it might be rather interesting to see where the journey has taken some of them. The first person under the spotlight is Deni (also known as Denny Gibson and Yo-Yo), who fronted avant-garde Blackpool electronic band LeLuLus. Since 1989 she has been creating music under the name Timekode. I found a really interesting broadcast from 2016 on the Music Life Radio website , where Deni speaks about her wide and varied career in detail. She most certainly started in style too, when in 1975 she won a competition run by ‘Top of the Pops’ magazine, resulting in her being presented with a guitar by Marc Bolan. In the beginning she played with bands called Wildfire, The ...