Name: Claire Nicholson
Band role: Guitar/backing vocals/all-round cool dudette
Time in the band: 1999 to 2001
Other work:
1997: Keyboard/backing vocals on Sam Brown's "Box" album
1998: Keyboard for Mike Scott's Mean Fiddler live performance, 9th June 1998
1999-2000: Keyboard/piano/guitar for Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells live performances

Also worked with: Jools Holland, Tom Jones, Kula Shaker, Dodgy, The Mary James, Cerys Mathews, Sharleen Spitteri and Dot Alison

Ah, Claire... Without question the best known of all the band members Melanie has worked with (and, quite possibly, will ever work with), she was always ready to spend time with fans signing autographs, posing for photos and just being a really nice person. Onstage she was by far the most animated of the band, dancing around the stage almost as much as Melanie.
Claire is also an solo artist with her band Pillow (www.pillowclub.co.uk), and can be found from time to time singing in London clubs.