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 With the demise of Miranda Sex Garden Katherine Blake and Tevour Sharpe formed the Mediaeval Babes, along with a group of like minded singers and artists, bringing olden songs to the modern market.
The style is very much that of 'Gush forth my tears' and the Whole 'Madra' album; Which took the form classic madrigal pieces re-interpreted and released on Mute records. Worldes Blysse 'Worldes Blysse' is the Current Album and has even got some airplay on mainstream radio.
 Katharine was born in London in 1970. Her parents were both politically active and her father and brother are trumpeters. She was educated at the Purcell School of Music in Harrow and Richmond College, where she met Nichole and Rachel. Katharine is the lead singer of the eerie and strange Miranda Sex Garden.
She has worked with Michael Nyman, Nick Cave, the mediaeval group Sinfonye, the Balanesque Quartet, Simon Fisher Turner and the German cabaret band Noctambule founded by Alex Hacker (Einsturzende Neubauten) and his wife Meret Becker, which is where she met Dorothy Carter. She is the founder member and musical director for the Medieval Baebes and is responsible for most of the group's arrangements and compositions.
 Reproduced from the Vigin Records Web site
In the spring of 1996, in the dingy caverns of Berlin's cabaret circuit, Katharine Blake, enchanting singer with the unusual band 'Miranda Sex Garden' met Dorothy Carter, dotty, yet deadly committed musician devoted to the music of the mediaeval era. Inspired by Dorothy's fascination with this romantic period, Katharine attempted to convince her friends - a group of modern, clued up gals - that what they wanted to be doing was singing very old songs from an age of innocence. They needed little persuasion, being the type of girls that never quite grew out of the 'dressing up as princesses'
stage. And so in the summer of 1996, The Mediæval Bæbes were formed, with Dorothy as accompanist, lending weight and experience to the fantastical affair. Katharine Blake is the only classically trained member of the band: The Baebes, however, have a spirited rather than academic approach to their music and so, are therefore undaunted by this. For their very first gig, they broke into a graveyard and invited a crowd that consisted of the dubious and salubrious. The Mediaeval Baebes have always had a wide appeal and following the success of their first gig, they went on to play in places
as diverse as churches, castles, rock venues and S & M clubs.
Within six months The Mediaeval Baebes had a record deal with Virgin/Venture. Bizarrely Virgin were not aware of the appropriate attire of the band - twelve, white, virginal gowns - when they signed the Baebes. The Mediaeval Baebes had been given a record deal purely on the strength of a demo tape recorded in a cellar. When the record producers finally got to see the feisty faces behind the holy music, they began to believe that God really could perform miracles: The Mediaeval Baebes, with their colourful history, their sexy looks and their classical songs were a marketing dream.
A wave of controversial publicity followed their signing and the press pounced on it. By Christmas The Mediaeval Baebes had appeared in almost every newspaper and magazine in Britain. But The Baebes proved to be too hot for The Sun who refused to run an article on the band after they'd thoroughly humiliated one of their journalists. The fact that The Mediaeval Baebes are all girl band with a saucy image meant that there were bound to be comparisons with the Spice Girls, and the tiresome title of many a journalistic piece was 'Ye Olde Spice'.
Soon to be added here are a load of images, lyrics, info and stuff on the band.
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