"...I learned to never use the word love in a song (not allowed) and to rawwwwk!

After some years and chance meetings, I formed my own band for my rockin singer songwritery songs called “MiMi Ferocious” – a six member band with 3 grrrls and 3 guys. Our songs are pop/rock and sometimes even prog with a touch of nostalgia. They're all my songs and the MiMis and I arrange them into three - five minute pop rock marvels!"

I've sung since I was little, against my will to relatives, and with teachers in class. I studied classically until college, where I was a musical theatre major. Moved to NYC and did some theatre, yada yada yada, but it wasn't until I dated a poet that I started writing lyrics. I think I was trying to woo him!

Anyway, I had my guitar that I learned on as a kid and one night I put my words to some chords and boom, there was my first song!

I stopped doing theatre all together and became obsessed with songwriting. I did open mics and was quite folksy. But soon, I was kidnapped by the trip hop band VDISC to be their lead singer. It was with them that I learned to never use the word love in a song (not allowed) and to rawwwwk!

After some years and chance meetings, I formed my own band for my rockin singer songwritery songs called “MiMi Ferocious” – a six member band with 3 grrrls and 3 guys. Our songs are pop/rock and sometimes even prog with a touch of nostalgia. They're all my songs and the MiMis and I arrange them into three - five minute pop rock marvels!

I sang at the UN after Sept 11 th, a song of hope written by my friend and musical colleage David First. That was kind of amazing. And really, any time I perform and I feel connected to the audience and I'm channelling Robert Plant or what have you, that is what keeps me going. And of course being featured by Colin Lynch!

I think the worst it ever got was a show we did at this disco called Neva, run by these Russian mobsters on cell phones who didn't know how to work a PA or what a sound system meant. We had really publicized that show and people just hated that place. It was cold, the cover was more than we said, the drinks were 10 dollars and the sound was god awful. I think a couple of people vowed to never see us again. Oh, also one day my mailing list was stolen by this guy that had a virus on his computer that emailed my list every minute all day about his 2 shows. I lost a lot of people from my list that day. Those days are gone now, we keep our list under lock and key!

I would mix albums differently. I would have paid more attention in the mixing room and really went with a gut feeling if I didn't like something instead of relying on the producer's ear 100%.

My band, MiMi Ferocious, just finished our album, 250 Times Sweeter Than Sugar coming out on Lunch Lady Records. We were lucky enough to have producer Nik Chinboukas, (The Misfits) take our tracks and give it the Greek God rock love they deserved at Spin Music Studios, NYC. He literally saved our album from an almost burned out harddrive and gave it some old school warmth.

David First (http://www.davidfirst.com), with the Lazy Eyes

Lin Esser was the leader of my first band VDisc - he co-wrote BROWN, my Besonic hit!

My band MiMi Ferocious's members are David Wilson on bass whom I've had the pleasure of working and eating jerky with for about 5 years now – Michael Preston who plays electric guitar on the album who used to lead the smoove groove band SHAGG – David Ross on drums from the band JABBER – my 2 back up harmony MiMiettes, Kim Winter and Michele Kantor who are musical goddesses. And David Silva from the band The Amber Smith plays drums on Cinderella's Dead and some of 250 Times Sweeter Than Sugar .

This album, 250 Times Sweeter than Sugar will be available at the Lunch Lady site ( http://www.lunchladyrecords.com ) and our site, http://www.mimiferocious.com , also Amazon, CDBaby and various stores throughout the land.

My solo album (with most of the same band members of MiMi Ferocious and they're all named David, I might add) Cinderella's Dead, is available at CDbaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/stephstjohn and Stooz Records, NYC.

Also, my album with David First, in our exerimental band, The Lazy Eyes will be out soon on Analysand Records, titled, Tokyo Could Not Be Opened Because Tokyo Could Not Be Found , and will be available through CDBaby, at various record stores and at http://www.lazyeyes.net

Baby Taylor for alternative tunings, acoustic Gibson J20, Roland 505, Boss tuner. Recording wise Oh my goodness.. I don't know! All I know is that Spin had everything. Nik would know what it all is, but I just couldn't tell you. We started on pro-tools and ended up putting all the tracks to 1 inch tape for the warmth and mid range. The mics were tube mics. They were amazing and took a while to warm up. That's all I could tell you!

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My first stage experience as a musician was terrifying, as it was the first time I was to perform my song outside of my bedroom – I think I dropped my pict mid-song a few times. But I ended up getting a lot of boyfriends during that time - they all wanted to help me.

Blondie – Plastic Letters , Led Zeppelin - IV, The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs , Elvis Costello – Imperial Bedroom, Joni Mitchell - For the Roses.

The Station Agent, Modern Times, Gandhi, Jaws and The War Room.

Well, of course, 1 - that MiMi Ferocious gets the attention that we deserve and that we'll do a world tour for the album and get paid bunches of money to record our next album!!!

2 - that all suicide bombers and the like would just STOP IT and find something to live for besides death, or at the very least find a peaceful way to strive for what they want.

I dreamt I was high in a castle and there were these two men and a woman trying to break into my castle to get me. I had to hide these eggs in a tissue box because they contained the evidence that they were trying to poison me. They ended up breaking in but I eventually beat them off with frying pans. Maybe it's a biological clock dream?

Coffee, Tae Bo, snuggle with my cats and talk of trips to Slovakia, working on new songs, bringing them into rehearsal with the band, waiting for our album to get back from the manufacturer, do my work work, kill more plants…

To get MiMi Ferocious – 250 Times Sweeter Than Sugar to the masses, on the radio, in people's cars! World domination through rock!!! http://www.mimiferocious check us out!!