Far away from the howls of Ridgewood Queens, while the band played a punk rhythm Shilpa Ray was hunched over her harmonium pushing and pulling getting weird sounds out of the little box Shilpa has toured with Nick Cave as a backing vocalist plus with two full length albums released with her band “The Happy Hookers which had a lot of commercial acclaim, She has been compared to Blondie and the Cramps with her flavoured gothic burlesque look. A new album is said to be underway