Vikki has released eight studio albums with the Waifs, and wrote the band's singles, "Bridal Train" (2004) and "Sun Dirt Water" (2007).

In an interview with Andrew Denton on Enough Rope, Thorn described the lifestyle of a fisherman's daughter:[2] "we played in vats of blood, and all these fish guts.

And there's three families that go out there, and we're the third generation actually, so our grandfather, and our father and now us and ah the, they sit on the beach and they watch for schools of salmon coming along, and it's a very old method of fishing."

[4] On Thorn's last day of high school, aged 16, she was picked up by Simpson, in a yellow Kombi, who asked her to travel with her: "I'd said to Vikki, you know, we should go round Australia.

[2]Thorn and Simpson met Josh Cunningham in August 1992 in Broome, the sisters had been travelling across greater Western Australia, playing the blues in rural bars based on what a town's tourist bureau described as the music scene for that area.

Shortly after its release, the album was certified 2× platinum in Australia and two successful singles followed: "London Still" and "Lighthouse", written by Simpson and Cunningham, respectively.

At the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami relief concert, WaveAid, in January 2005 the Waifs performed with Thorn providing harmonica.

The Waifs' fifth studio album, Sun, Dirt, Water (September 2007), provided a title single, which was written by Thorn.

"[7] The group's eighth studio album, Ironbark, released in February 2017, led Thorn to reflect on their being together for 25 years, "I just sent an email the other day saying 'When the tour's over, when do we celebrate?'

The single, "Tempest" is a cinematic tale of hope and desire, told by a lonely waitress stuck in a predictable, suffocating, desolate, outback truck stop.