Alison Limerick

Limerick attended the London School of Contemporary Dance and switched to a music career, first as a backing vocalist, in the 1980s.

She sang on Grand Union Orchestra's 1986 world jazz album The Song of Many Tongues, written by Tony Haynes.[2] In 1989 she made a brief appearance as an African sorceress in Bob Rafelson's film, Mountains of the Moon. She has also contributed to This Mortal Coil, singing on two of its albums: Filigree & Shadow (1986) and Blood (1991).

Another 4AD related contribution found her singing on the Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook album Sleeps with the Fishes (1987) on the song "Equal Ways." She appeared on Peter Murphy's album Holy Smoke and released her own first album in 1992