Name	Tahita Bulmer
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Naionality	American
Date of Birth	29-April-1981
Place of Birth	America
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Our drummer, Sarah, found it in Sydney. She tries to find me jumpsuits wherever we go, the more outlandish the better. This was something like £17. She just pulled it out and I instantly fell in love with it. It's really tiny, so it's pretty tight on me, but I thought that would be good for stage. I've worn it for about four or five gigs and it's my favourite stage outfit now. It's my va-va-va-voom outfit.I wouldn't say I was necessarily girlie girl. I take my fashion cues from 1940s film noir and 50s musicals. I love all that stuff. People say my style is really 80s but actually it's not, it's from the 40s, if you want to get pedantic about it. I like to look feminine but I like to look strong at the same time. I'm 1940s punk, that's my style.It's dance music but with real songwriting attached. You can dance to it, and be crazy and wild and drunk to it, and then go home and listen to it and the lyrics are quite reflective. There's a lot of metaphor and a lot of word play. Our influences are stuff like Talking Heads, Blondie and the Stranglers and more modern bands such as LCD Sound System and the Rapture.All the bands that I wanted to sound like had a very eclectic style - like Talking Heads - a geek-preppy thing going on. I love the look of Debbie Harry and the boys from Blondie, too: chic but trashy as well.Yes, that's very important. As a performer I give my all and I tend to sweat a lot and climb on monitors, so it's important to me to be able to do those things. I wouldn't want to be restricted by what I was wearing because it makes you feel like a Victorian school ma'am if you can't dance as you want to or clamber into the audience when you want to.Topshop, perhaps. Someone got it for one of our videos; it was too big for me so we sewed up the back and it's just become a staple of my wardrobe. It acts as a mini corset when I've perhaps polished off a few too many pies over the weekend. I love it. It's just a little elasticated belt and every girl should have one.They're vintage. A male friend found these for me. He bought them as a gift to the band, my dancing shoes. They are really special to me. The suede is coming away from the sole because I've been bouncing up and down in them for so long. I left them in the back of a cab after a gig. I went home and threw myself on the ground and cried for about an hour, I was being really melodramatic about the whole thing and then, of course, I discovered the lost property number at the cab office and the cab driver had handed them in. We had been talking about Blondie - that was his favourite band. These shoes are extra special now, because they came back.About two years ago. I've always wanted to do it. It was something really liberating to do. Being mixed-race and having the hair that I do meant I was never going to look like the kind of girls you see in magazines. I always wanted dead straight black hair with a heavy fringe like all those girls you see in Camden. That was never going to happen. I used to get the ceramic irons out and try to get that effect, but as soon as you go into a sweaty club or it rains, the whole thing falls apart. Shaving my hair was just a way for me to acknowledge the whole punk thing and this was me saying you don't have to be so pretty-pretty with everything, you can be a lot harder-edged, you can be slightly stronger. You don't have to look like Kate Moss to be happy with yourself.