LVCRFT is the sinister spawn of seven Halloween-obsessed hitmakers, responsible for writing and producing tracks for Rihanna, Madonna, Charli XCX and Beyonce among others. Their album ‘This Is Halloween Volume 1’ (2019) features nine original Halloween songs and two cover songs re-imagined in creepy Halloween fashion (Kids in America and Backstreet Boys ‘As Long As You Love Me’). With haunting children’s choirs, strange 80’s phantasms, trap ghosts and swampy voodoo skeletons the album was meant to be the soundtrack to any Halloween party, horror movie screening and trick or treat mission.

Song written and recorded by the Bus Station Loonies, based on the song Kids in America.
Released on the album ‘Mad Frank’s Zonal Disco’ in 1999.

Alex Fain is an Italian DJ and producer, who started his career in 1988. Using a variety of aliases – Microman, Great Exuma and Sex On Monday, amongst others – he made a name for himself in the dance scene. Lex was one of his aliases. Under this name he only released one record: a cover version of You Came. The vocals were contributed by Lynsey Shaw, a model and singer from the UK. One of the tracks on the 12″ single was remixed by Kevin Sunray, which is an alias for Vasilis Milopoulos, a Greek DJ and producer.

Libra is a French singer-songwriter. She first published music online in 2017. In October 2019 she released a cover version of Kim Wilde’s Cambodia.

Born as Marie MacDonald McLaughlin Lawrie on 3 November 1948, in Lennox Castle, Glasgow, Scotland. Lulu was originally a beat group vocalist with her own backing group the Luvvers consisting of Ross Nelson (guitar), Jim Dewar (rhythm guitar), Alec Bell (keyboards), Jimmy Smith (saxophone), Tony Tierney (bass) and David Miller (drums). The 15-year-old singer first came to prominence with a version of the Isley Brothers’ “Shout” in 1964. After an unsuccessful few years she switched record labels from Decca to EMI/Columbia Records and found a new hitmaker, Mickie Most. A cover of Neil Diamond’s ‘The Boat That I Row’ saw an upsurge in her career during 1967, which was punctuated by an acting part in the movie ‘To Sir With Love’. The theme tune from the film gave her a million-selling US number 1. In the UK the song made no. 6. Further UK hits followed, notably ‘Let’s Pretend’, ‘Me, the Peaceful Heart’, ‘Boy’ and  the Marty Wilde composition ‘I’m a Tiger’.

Having established herself as an entertainer of wide appeal, Lulu was granted her own television series and later represented Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest. This song, ‘Boom-Bang-a-Bang’, tied for first place and provided her highest UK chart placing at number 2. Her brief marriage to Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees was followed by another switch of labels and musical styles when she worked with famed producer Jerry Wexler on two albums. A lean period of flop singles ended when David Bowie intervened to produce and arrange her hit version of ‘The Man Who Sold The World’.

During the ’70s, she concentrated increasingly on stage work and developed her career as an all-round entertainer, a spin-off which was becoming the long-standing model/endorser for the Freeman’s mail-order catalogue. Appearances in ‘Guys and Dolls’, ‘Song and Dance’ and the television programme, ‘The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole’ distracted her from the studio but a disco re-recording of ‘Shout’ in 1986 repeated the Top 10 success of 22 years before.

In 1993, Lulu released ‘Independence’, an album of ‘modern disco-pop with a flavour of classic soul and R&B’. Co-produced by Bobby Womack and Londonbeat, the title track registered strongly in the UK and US charts, and was followed by another single, I’m Back For More, on which Lulu duetted with Womack. She was, by then, creating some of her own material, and one of her songs, ‘I Don’t Wanna Fight Any More’, written with her brother, Billy Laurie, was recorded by Tina Turner.

In 1994, she released another album, which spawned the single Every Woman Knows. Kim appears in the music video for this single.

Richard Lucas is a lifelong gardener with a real passion for plants – he grew up in the warm climate of South Devon, taught himself horticulture and has never wanted to do anything else. Richard and Kim were introduced to each other at the Holker Hall Garden Festival. They started working together in 2002. Both have enjoyed successes at RHS flower shows. Richard and Kim worked together on the Tower Garden at Hampton Court in 2004, winning a silver medal. When they collaborated for the 2005 Chelsea Flower Show, their creation the Cumbrian Fellside Garden won them a gold medal and a best in show award. In 2005, they also started writing together on a book called First-time gardener, which was released in 2006.
Richard lived for many years in the Lake District and worked in some of its greatest gardens.
He passed away after having battled cancer for several years on 1 August 2024, aged 58.