Cover version of Cambodia, with German lyrics.
Recorded by German singer Jacqueline on her 2010 album ‘Sonne, Mond und Sterne’.

Born 27 May 1970, Katrien Vercaigne is an accomplished photographer who studied one-year graphical design, after modern languages at elementary school, before studying photography at the national radio and film institute in Brussels. She graduated with a thesis and a master in fashion. Immediately her first job was a press folio in 1993 for a Belgian band called Elisa Waut. The pictures were widespread in magazines and newspapers. This was the start of more pictures from Belgian artists and bands for magazines and portfolios.

In the mean time, she started working with models on assignments for fashion and beauty shoots. She was selected by Pentax Benelux at the Brussels Expo to exhibit 10 photos of her work at a professional photographers expo. At the ‘Classics’ expo in Kortrijk, she was asked to cover the runway show from Pierre Balmain that was showing his couture designs.

But when fashion turned to “grunge” Katrien decided to turn away from this, with the from time to time glamorous exception to the rule.

Having had personal challenges, she prioritised her direction in photography, finding herself more self-assigned. This led to new projects in interior and outdoor lifestyle shootings and a Victorian themed exposition with about 50 photographs on show. Her work combines glamour and personality in decorative and nature settings.

Between 2001 and now she has photographed Kim on stage numerous times, during live concerts in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany and the UK. She has also made photographs for a few remarkable productions for the web, for instance the Kim Wilde in Brighton backstage report and a full digital recreation of Kim’s award-winning Cumbrian Fellside Garden, both created in cooperation with Marcel Rijs.

Elvira Voća released her first single ‘Se me vuoi’ in Italy in 1963. She married Stjepan Milhaljinec in 1961 and they collaborated on her Croatian material ever since. Her debut album ‘Slušala Sam Srce’ was released in 1980. Before then, she’d released about a dozen singles, including a cover version of Abba’s ‘Waterloo’.

On an LP called ‘Top Ten 2 – Internacionalni Hitovi’ the best hits of the year 1984 were covered by Yugoslavian artists. Elvira contributed a cover version of The Second Time in Croatian as ‘Drugo Vrijeme’.

Elvira also made a name for herself as an actress, starring in the movies ‘Mediteransko putovanje’ (1962) and ‘Dobro jutro, Hrvatska’ (1992).

Born on 18 December 1948 in Paris, France, Laurent Voulzy is a French singer/songwriter.
He originally led the English-pop-influenced Le Temple de Vénus before joining Pascal Danel as guitarist from 1969 to 1974. However he is best known for his collaborative songwriting efforts with singer/songwriter Alain Souchon and his solo singing career which spanned several successful albums.

Laurent Voulzy made an international hit with the song ‘Rockollection’. The French lyrics were interspersed with some lines from classic rock hits after the chorus. Since then, he’s released several solo albums and some ‘best-of’-collections, as well as one live album in 1994.

A very striking release was Les Nuits Sans Kim Wilde, the 1986 single in which Laurent sings about how lonely the nights are without Kim Wilde. Kim contributed some vocals to the song, and appeared in the accompanying videoclip, a glamorous production which also features a pinball machine with Kim Wilde design.
Since then, Laurent and Kim have performed songs together a few times on French television, singing Bye Bye Love (in 1990) and Laurent’s song Belle-Ile en Mer Marie-Galante (in 1992).
The two were reunited in 2006 for a television show celebrating the music of Laurent Voulzy and Alain Souchon, and they sang ‘Les nuits sans Kim Wilde’ together.
In 2010, Laurent and Kim performed live at Night of the Proms in Charleroi (Belgium), singing ‘Les Nuits Sans Kim Wilde’ and Oh Lori together.
In 2018, they released the song Amoureux des Rêves on the deluxe edition of the album Here Come the Aliens.

In 2006, Laurent released ‘La Septième Vague’, an album of cover versions of songs from the Seventies and Eighties. The album reached number 1 in France. Voulzy then toured France in 2007.

He now lives in Southern England, in the town of Haslemere. He moved to join his family who had already lived there for 20 years.

Maarten Vorwerk was born in Rotterdam (Netherlands) on 25 April 1980. He became a jump/hardstyle/trance/club producer who became wellknown because of his work with the production duo Jeckyll & Hyde. Together with DJ Ruthless he started a record label called Squarebeats.

In 2007, he released a jump/hardstyle cover of Kim Wilde’s Cambodia, which was a big hit on the Dutch dancefloors.

Born on 8 March 1980 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Lucie Plekancová Vondrácková is a Czech popular singer and respected theatre and film actress. She comes from a musical family. Her father Jirí Vondrácek is a musician, while her mother, Hana Sorrosa Vondrácková, is a lyricist. She speaks five languages and has Ecuadorian roots via a maternal grandfather. She studied music and drama at the Prague Conservatory, and completed the course of Cultural studies, with a Master of Arts degree. She earned the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 2006 at Charles University in Prague.

Her debut album ‘Marmeláda’ was released in 1993. In the next two decades, nine more albums followed. In 2013, she released ‘Ohen’, which contains the song Stuj, a cover version of Kim Wilde’s Never Trust a Stranger.

On 17 June 2011, she married Czech International hockey player Tomáš Plekanec who plays centre for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League. The couple has 2 sons, Matyáš and Adam.

The synth-pop group Visage was formed in 1978 by Steve Strange, Rusty Egan and Midge Ure. They set out to make music to fit into the playlist of Strange’s favourite nightclub at that time, Billy’s. The music played there was very different from the punk sounds that were popular at that time: David Bowie, Kraftwerk and Roxy Music were favoured.

Their first demo yielded the single ‘In the year 2525’, a cover of the song by Zager &: Evans. Visage became the force of the Blitz movement at the time with fashion, makeup and music selling millions of records.

Visage’s brand of synthpop proved to be successful for a few years, with hits like ‘Fade to grey’, Mind of a toy (1981), ‘Night train’ and ‘Pleasure boys’ (1982). Of their songs, ‘Fade to grey’ is still the most recognised one, after being a hit in most European countries as well.

In 2002, Steve Strange performed live as Visage and joined Kim during the Here & Now Christmas Party.

The Virgin Suicides was formed by four unnamed sixteen year olds in Cambridge in 2001. In 2003 they released their debut EP ‘Plough over the bones of the dead’, described as a ‘punk masterpiece’. Also in 2003, they released a compilation of demos, including a cover version of Kim Wilde’s Kids in America. When half the band moved to university, it became hard to maintain the ‘gang mentality’ which is so essential for punk bands. In 2004 the band recorded some further demos, but there was increasing disagreement about the new musical direction they were taking. A few shambolic gigs followed, culminating in one more chaotic than usual at the Portland Arms in Cambridge which lead singer and guitarist Dickon walked out of mid-set. They have not gigged since.