Debbie Googe is the bassist

Bassist

A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...

 for the rock band My Bloody Valentine.

My Bloody Valentine

Before joining My Bloody Valentine, she lived in Yeovil, Somerset and played for a band called Bikini Mutants, who gigged with The Mob. Googe had moved from Yeovil

Yeovil

Yeovil is a town and civil parish in south Somerset, England. The parish had a population of 27,949 at the 2001 census, although the wider urban area had a population of 42,140...

 to London, and in early 1985, an ex-girlfriend of hers recommended her as a bass player to Kevin Shields

Kevin Shields

Kevin Patrick Shields is an American-born, Irish vocalist, guitarist, and producer of alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine....

 and Colm Ó Cíosóig of My Bloody Valentine. She joined the band after an audition in April 1985. She left in the group in 1995, noting she "hadn't been happy for a long time".

Googe is known for her raucous style of bass playing in MBV's live performances.

Googe joined My Bloody Valentine's 2007 reunion, and their tours in 2008 and 2009.

Work outside My Bloody Valentine

After leaving MBV in 1995, Googe briefly became a taxi driver. She formed Snowpony

Snowpony

Snowpony are a British indie rock supergroup initially formed in 1996 by Katharine Gifford and Debbie Googe.-History:Gifford, who at the time was in Moonshake, gave Googe a tape of songs she had been working on before Moonshake went on a US tour. Googe, who then had recently left My Bloody...

 in 1996 with her then-girlfriend, Katharine Gifford, formerly of Stereolab

Stereolab

Stereolab are an alternative music band formed in 1990 in London, England. The band originally comprised songwriting team Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier , both of whom remained at the helm across many lineup changes...

.