Before their debut on the 1998 split EP with the Hammicks, Otto Matik (vocals), Nikki Holiday (keyboards), and Julius Siezure (keyboards) traded in their guitars for synthesizers, adopted pseudo British accents, and called themselves
the Prima Donnas. With an angst-ridden experimentation of
Huggy Bear and
the Nation of Ulysses added to their raw inspiration of
the Stooges, the Austin three-piece brought on their array of drum machines and lyrical delivery of sex, drugs, and all-around cynicism as they continued with the release of the 1998 EP She Had Alien Written All Over Her. Following a tour with
the PeeChees that same year, Kill Rock Stars put out
the Prima Donnas third 7", Head Full of Pills, in 1999. ~ Mike DaRonco