Frank Zappa in his 1980 interview with 'Songwriter' magazine said of Little Annie “When I go to a place like Max's Kansas City in New York and see a group like Annie and the Asexuals, I can really enjoy it. I don't know if that band will ever get a record contract and I don't think they care. I watched them for an hour - painful as it was - their show was real personal and disorganized. This girl was wearing winter underwear with a black leather coat on top of that, and she had a paper bag with a bottle of vodka in it, and she was backed up by five guys who had just bought their instruments, apparently. She was screaming about Thorazine and being in a mental hospital and it was real! You don't get that commitment to just spewing your guts out among L.A. Groups.”
Little Annie - aka Annie Anxiety - aka Annie Bandez, who survived her teenage angst and matured into a smokey contralto, has been “real" ever since. She is an adventuress, chanteuse/lyricist, ordained minister, high school dropout, juvenile delinquent, self-taught painter, multi-media artist and post modern cabaret queen with a long, illustrious and eclectic recording career who has defied categorization, limitation, restrictions and sometimes the law.
Annie's solo LPs and numerous collaborations (with Wolfgang Press, Crass, the ON-U Sound stable, Paul Oakenfold, Kid Congo Powers, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, the late Bim Sherman, Coil, Fini Tribe, Collapsed Lung, Christoph Heeman and many fine others) span the spectrum from reggae and hip hop to torch songs and the avant garde. She has written three volumes of prose, appeared in numerous plays, theatre pieces and films and continues to tour extensively with pianist and co-composer Paul Wallfisch Of Botanica.
She is currently residing in her beloved muse and hometown of New York City after a thirteen year residency in England, where she recorded her new CD 'Songs From The Coal Mine Canary' produced by Antony (of Antony and The Johnsons) and Joe Buedenholzer (Backworld) for Dutro Records. She has also been painting for her 'Urban Saints, God And Science And September Skyline' series, and is completing the second 'Legally Jammin'' CD - the dance project she does with Can Oral and Christian Jendreiko.