NINETIES indie star Miki Berenyi is touring the world again 26 years after her first band Lush split up.
She formed Lush with classmate Emma Anderson and they'd gig around London's Britpop mecca Camden - before incredibly breaking America.
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Along with the likes of Blur, Lush were branded a 'shoegaze' band and were regularly splashed across the pages of music magazines NME and Melody Maker.
US stardom came calling thanks to their hits De-Luxe and Baby Talk, and the duo became the only women to be invited onto the second ever Lollapalooza tour line-up in 1992.
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But Lush broke up six years later, after their drummer, Chris Acland, tragically took his own life.
Miki and Emma enjoyed a short reunion in 2016, but it didn't last and Miki eventually formed a new band, Piroshka, with Mick Conroy formerly of new wave/post-punk band Modern English and Justin Welch from Elastica.
Miki, now 57, also worked for a magazine but it folded during lockdown and she decided to concenrate on writing her memoir, Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success.
Miki - whos Japanese mother was in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice - goes back to her unconventional childhood that was marred by racisim and abuse before delving into Lush and their rise to fame.
Speaking about it on DKFM, she said she refused to "write a puff piece about Lush" and so traced her tempestuous relationship with Lush bandmate Emma too.
Miki said: "When people go, 'oh you've known each other since school, you must be best friends,' you nod and smile and you don't want to rock the boat.
"We weren't at each other's throats all the time ... but it's the difficulty of being in a band with all its stresses and all the time you spend together, with two people who have very different personalities.
"And they're also the only two women in a very male environment. It could have been lovely if we were this united front of sisterhood in this male world, bit that's not how it worked out."
She added: "I think it was quite funny, sometimes, the way (we would) lose it with each other is quite amusing.
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"There would be no Lush without Emma."
She's touring the US in June and the UK in August with the Miki Berenyi Trio. Tickets can be purchased here.
Miki said on Instagram: "It'll be a mixed set of MB3/Lush/Piroshka songs. Take it as me just playing what I can, excited to be able to tour (at my age!)."
