Laila France has been played on NTS shows including Pender Street Steppers, with The Other Side Of You first played on 12 March 2019.

"Laila France" was the stage name of Samantha Crü. In the nineties she answered a magazine advertisement placed by Momus which read: "Girl singer wanted for an album of songs in the style of 1970s Italian soft porn films." The 1997 album Orgonon is the product of their collaboration.

She later recorded the "Lailove" album with The Maxwell Implosion, released in 1999.