Julie Campbell, otherwise known as Lonelady (often typeset as LoneLady), is a musician from Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

, England. Her debut album, Nerve Up, appeared on Warp Records

Warp Records

Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music....

 in 2010 and drew praise from Paul Morley

Paul Morley

Paul Morley is an English journalist, who wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983, during one of its most successful periods, and has since written for a wide range of publications...

.

Biography

Campbell graduated in Fine Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University. While at university, she started to write and record music on a four-track recorder in her flat. She released two CD-R singles and one 7" vinyl on Manchester-based label Filthy Home Recordings. This brought LoneLady to the attention of Too Pure, and in 2007 they released a 7" single. In 2009, Campbell signed to Warp Records

Warp Records

Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music....

. Her debut album, Nerve Up

Nerve Up

Nerve Up is the debut album by Lonelady, released by Warp on 22 February 2010.-Reception:David Raposa of Pitchfork Media awarded Nerve Up a 7.7 rating, praising the album's "wall-to-wall skittishness" and commenting that the artist shows "an astonishing ability to express her voice using the...

, was released 22 February 2010. .

In 2011, it was announced that Campbell would be collaborating with Jah Wobble

Jah Wobble

Jah Wobble is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two albums...

. This collaborative project is called Psychic Life. The result of this is the eponymously-titled debut album Psychic Life, which is reported to be inspired by disco, post-punk and psychogeography

Psychogeography

Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals." Another definition is "a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for...

. It will be released by Cherry Red Records on 14 November 2011. The project also reunites Wobble with fellow ex-PiL

PIL

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 guitarist Keith Levene

Keith Levene

Keith Levene is an English songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was an early member of The Clash, but is best known as being a founding member of Public Image Limited, along with John Lydon....

. A digital-only Psychic Life EP, fronted by the song "Tightrope", will be released in October.

Albums

As LoneLady:

• Nerve Up
  Nerve Up
  Nerve Up is the debut album by Lonelady, released by Warp on 22 February 2010.-Reception:David Raposa of Pitchfork Media awarded Nerve Up a 7.7 rating, praising the album's "wall-to-wall skittishness" and commenting that the artist shows "an astonishing ability to express her voice using the...
  
  (debut solo album. Warp, 2010)

As Psychic Life:

• Psychic Life (eponymously-titled debut album. Cherry Red, 2011)

Singles

As LoneLady:

• "Intuition" (Warp, 2010)
• "Immaterial" (Warp, 2009)
• "Early the Haste Comes" (Too Pure, 2007)
• "Army" (Filthy Home Recordings, 2007)
• "Hi Ho Bastard" (Filthy Home Recordings, 2005)

EPs

As LoneLady:

• "Have No Past" (Filthy Home Recordings, 2005)

As Psychic Life:

• "Psychic Life EP" (digital-only. Cherry Red, 2011)