Briana Corrigan

b. 30 May 1965, Belfast, Northern Ireland. As a child Corrigan played piano as well as brass instruments. However, when her brother refused her permission to join his band, she turned to the theatre and acting instead. As an adolescent she identified with the music of Abba and the Undertones, but by the time she moved to Newcastle, England, in the mid-80s to study performance, she was still bent on a thespian career. That changed in 1987 when she joined the Anthill Runaways, a comic ‘cowpunk' band in the vein of the Blubbery Hellbellies or Boothill Foot-Tappers. She was recrui...