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The Waves made their initial recorded appearances on a 1982 single ("The Nightmare"/"Hey, War Pig!"); both tracks were included on the 1982 Rew solo album called The Bible of Bop. [1] The Waves then issued their debut EP Shock Horror! later in 1982; Rew and Leskanich both sang lead, about 50/50. Around this time, bassist Jakins left the band ...
Christgau felt that, as a songwriter, Rew has an "unerring knack for up-to-the-minute Sixties-style hooks" and writes "rock-outsider lyrics that never get obtrusively specific," while Leskanich has "a voice so big and enthusiastic she could make Barry Manilow's songs sound like Holland-Dozier-Holland." The "tricky" new version of "Machine Gun ...
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The original version of the song appeared on Katrina and the Waves' 1982 EP Shock Horror! (with the band then simply named the Waves). Soon thereafter, they re-recorded the song for inclusion on their 1983 debut full-length album Walking on Sunshine, which was only released in Canada. The version included on both releases featured Rew on lead ...
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On 3 May 1997, the Eurovision Song Contest was held at the Point Theatre in Dublin hosted by Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), and broadcast live throughout the continent. . Katrina and the Waves performed "Love Shine a Light" twenty-fourth in a field of twenty-five songs being preceded by the Croatian entry "Probudi me" and followed with the Icelandic entry "Minn hinsti