Princess One Point Five

Melbourne's Sarah-Jane Wentzki was nicknamed "Princess One Point Five" for her diminutive height -- just over 1.5 meters -- and her over-sized personality. After four years as a member of a band called I Want a Hovercraft she went solo under that nickname, sometimes rendered as "P1.5". She performed pop songs with lyrics whose sometimes alarmingly morbid subjects were at odds with their jaunty piano melodies, as well as more blatantly shadowy, experimental instrumental pieces. Her first album, 2005's At Long Last, was funded by an Arts Council Buzz Music Grant and recorded wit...