1. Deborah Ann Googe was born on 24 October 1962 and is an English musician, who achieved international fame as the bassist for the band My Bloody Valentine.
14 Facts About Debbie Googe
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Debbie Googe has worked with Snowpony, Primal Scream and Thurston Moore.
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Debbie Googe had moved from Yeovil to London, and in early 1985, an ex-girlfriend of hers recommended her as a bass player to Kevin Shields and Colm O Ciosoig of My Bloody Valentine.
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Debbie Googe joined the band after an audition in April 1985.
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Debbie Googe left the group in 1996, noting she "hadn't been happy for a long time".
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Debbie Googe is known for her raucous style of bass playing in MBV's live performances.
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Debbie Googe joined My Bloody Valentine's 2007 reunion, and their subsequent tours.
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Debbie Googe formed Snowpony in 1996 with her then-girlfriend, Katharine Gifford, formerly of Stereolab.
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Debbie Googe occasionally plays keyboards with the massed fuzz organ experimentalists band Pimmel and plays drums and sings backing vocals for Rockhard.
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In 2012, it was announced that Debbie Googe would be the new bassist for Primal Scream, replacing Mani after his departure to rejoin The Stone Roses.
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On 4 August 2014, Debbie Googe joined Thurston Moore for his solo project The Best Day, and continued this collaboration with his subsequent albums Rock n Roll Consciousness in 2017 and By The Fire 2020, alongside Steve Shelley, and the UK musicians James Sedwards.
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Debbie Googe contributed bass for two tracks on the 2018 Tim Burgess album As I Was Now and collaborated with the American poet Ann Waldman for the 2020 album Sciamachy, along with William Parker and Laurie Anderson.
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In 2022, Brix Smith announced that Debbie Googe would be part of her new, all women, live band.
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In November 2023, Debbie Googe announced a new solo project under the name da Googie.