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Rave Queen Parties With Prince Charles

Author: Jonty Skrufff
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Acid house siren Plavka, who made her name singing with The Shamen, Caspar Pound and trance superstars Jam & Spoon in the early 90s, chatted to Skrufff this week about her upcoming Jam & Spoon club tour and revealed that she nowadays socialises on the 'champagne aristocratic scene' centred around Britain's Royal Family.

"I met Prince Charles at a polo party, it was great, he's so charming," she revealed.

"I met him really casually at Highgrove, his estate, when his polo team was playing; Prince William was on the team too. It was a small event and after they finished they received a trophy then he actually started directing the conversation towards me. There was a little group of us standing around. He was really friendly and down to Earth," said Plavka.

The American beauty, who sets off on a UK tour shortly to promote Jam & Spoon's comeback album, started her career singing with The Shamen and admitted that her early experiences in England had been markedly different.

"When I was in The Shamen, I was just 19 and it was hugely drug orientated and yes I experimented but I don't regret any of it," she insisted.

"I'm not the kind of person that has an addictive personality, and I don't think drugs go hand in hand with the music anyway, I've always been in it for the music."

She also went on to sing in equally notorious tech-trance party crew the Rising High Collective, the underground outfit led by Caspar Pound, who died tragically last month of a brain tumour aged 33.

"I just remember Caspar as having really great energy and ideas and being a lovely person. His death is a real loss," said Plavka.
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