The Rebecca Hancock Story... so far.... Born in the West Country in England, Rebecca came to Australia on an immigrant ship with her Mum when she was 8, and settled in Sydney. She sang a bit and played a guitar she bought when she was 14, while devoting most of her creative energies to ballet. Rebecca returned to England at 19 to audition for ballet companies, but abandoned that idea after a while (and after many dedicated years of study) and came back to Australia to join her first band Watusi Now in 1983. Watusi Now was a soul-influenced pop band on the Hot Records label, which hit the Sydney scene in the early 1980's. Prison Wife, Mark Bradridge, was a founding member and bass player, Rebecca was the vocalist and another Prison Wife, John Sandow, played on Watusi Now's single, "Sound of God". Rebecca then went on to sing with Louis Tillett's Paris Green and its off-shoot Paris Pink - a musical foray which attracted some of Australia's finest musicians as guest artists to its free-for-all soul, blues and jazz performances. Two of those musicians were drummer Tony Buck (from The Necks) and Violinda. Recordings by their band L'Beato featured Rebecca's vocals on the EP "The Shape of things to Come" and single, "The Piston Song". The next step was Ed Kuepper and the Yard Goes on Forever (1988-89) with whom Rebecca toured internationally as a backing singer and keyboard player. Rebecca supplied the backing vocals on the "Everybody's Got To" album. Rebecca took a break from music to go back to university and to devote time to her family. Ending up working in areas unrelated to music and not performing live for a while, Rebecca increasingly turned her attention to song writing. When Gerry Kortegast asked Rebecca to sing on his band Desert Boot's second album, an opportunity presented itself to exercise the vocal cords once again and to try out one of her compositions "Craving You", from which the album derived its title. "Craving" was released in 1999 in Europe through Blue Rose Records. Succumbing to the desire to engage in a project of her own, Rebecca threw her ideas at musicians John Sandow, Mark Bradridge and Nick Fisher. With their creative talent and vision, songs which had floated up in the ether for sometime, finally found "Somewhere to Land". The new album "Under My Bed" has brought together old friends and new. Core members, Mark Bradridge and John Sandow continue to provide the backbone of that Prison Wives sound. A new face, Ged Corben, talented guitarist with the Lime Spiders and the Wheelers and Dealers, and founding member of the legendary Cruel Sea, joined the project. David Rowley, drummer with Salvation Jane and a member of aforementioned Watusi Now, returned to Sydney after many years overseas just in time to lend his drumming flair to the recording. The band couldn't resist sending a couple of songs to anther ex-Watusi Now member, Peter Mengede (guitarist for seminal New York band, Helmet), also recently back in Australia. From his Brisbane studio, Peter added brushstokes of wild guitar.

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