Her previous band 'Duchess', for whom Coddington was songwriter, singer and guitarist, also released a 6 track EP in 2005.
In 2015, Coddington covered Terence Trent D'Arby's "Sign Your Name" for Katie Noonan's album Songs That Made Me.
By 16 she was fronting and writing for her first band, Handsome Geoffery, which won New Zealand's national student music competition, Smokefree Rockquest, in 1998.
The band's members included future actor/director Aidee Walker, who would later direct a number of Coddington's music videos.
[2] A self-proclaimed nerd, she studied linguistics at the University of Auckland to masters level, and also is a 2nd dan black belt in Kyokushin Karate.