Echobelly with Glenn Johansson & Sonya Madan

<p>Echobelly with Glenn Johansson & Sonya Madan in conversation with David Eastaugh</p> <p>Madan and Johansson first met in a pub, with Sonya expressing her desire to sing in a band "I used to sing to myself as a child. I suppose I had a secret desire to sing", They soon teamed up with bass guitarist Alex Keyser and drummer Andy Henderson, who had previously played with <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJ_Harvey'>PJ Harvey</a>'s band. Guitarist <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Smith_(musician)'>Debbie Smith</a>, formerly of <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_(band)'>Curve</a>, came on board in 1994.</p> <p>According to the <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Records'>Epic Records</a>' website, the group came up with the name Echobelly from the notion of "being hungry for something". With Madan and Johansson as the band's songwriters, they <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_recording_and_reproduction'>recorded</a> their debut <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_play'>EP</a>, Bellyache, on the independent Pandemonium label in late 1993.</p>