Love Club was a San Francisco-based[1] American gothic rock band of the 1980s and 1990s, founded and fronted by vocalist and pianist Deborah Borchers, with guitarist Lawrence (Larry) Doyle.
One of the earliest lineups of the band 87-89 included Larry Doyle, Deborah Borchers, Jeff St. Pierre and John Scampoli, the musicians involved in recording "Lime Twigs and Treachery".
[2] While the album did not enjoy much commercial success, Paul Nash of Trouser Press called Borchers a "skilled diva" and compared her vocals with those of Danielle Dax and Nina Hagen.
[citation needed] At the time of one of their press kits for Popular Metaphysics, a later lineup of the band was featured, which was in place from 1989 to 1992, consisting of Borchers and Doyle with bassist Trey Long and percussionist and musicologist John Distefano.
[6] Borchers' vocals were featured on one song, Arabia Avalon, on the 1994 Frank Rothkamm CD album, "Frank Genius Presents Planet Genius", released in the U.S. by Flux Records (FLX1)[7] Borcher began to write again in 1999 after a long hiatus, with guitarist and synthesist Greg Reed (co-writer on "Once Upon a Time" and with her vocals, melody and harmonies, for a project entitled "The Nature of Desire".