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Readers Wifes

About Me

Formed in London in 1994 the Readers Wifes, AKA Kim Phaggs and Chelsea Kelsey, were among the forerunners of the kind of clubbing eclecticism we take for granted these days. DJs at London’s now legendary ‘Duckie’ their 5 hour long sets mixing ‘80s electro, glam, punk, ska, Motown and Kate Bush were a truly revolutionary proposition back then in a clubland awash with wall-to-wall digital house and samey E-pop – twelve years on the club is still rammed to the rafters every Saturday night. In 2001 Kim and Chelsea decided that they wanted to try their hand at making their own music, or at least the kind of records they could play in their own DJ sets between Marc Bolan and Kraftwerk. An initial track found its way into the hands of Jeremy Kimberley and Mark Satanic, two regulars at the club. Their reworked track was presented to Kim and Chelsea – who were most impressed, and demanded more! The foursome wrote non-stop over the course of a year, emerging at the start of 2002 with a debut single and a series of live gigs that knocked underground London off its feet. The limited edition single ‘Bitch At The Brits/Fuc Dup’ was a scathing attack on the music industry: it sold out within a week. In 2003 The Wifes started working with Siouxsie & The Banshees founder and bassist Steven Severin. He came to see the band play live and a partnership was quickly struck up, with Severin in the producer’s seat. The first result of the collaboration was the 2005 single ‘Scumpop/Black Silk Stocking’ – another limited edition and a chart entry. August 8th 2005 saw the release of the band’s third single and another Severin production, ‘Nostalgia’, with guest vocals from New York cabaret icon Justin Bond (Kiki & Herb). Nostalgia broke into the UK Indie Charts at an impressive number 15, and also made an appearance in the main UK charts. Since the release of Nostalgia the band have been working on their debut album. With the working title ‘Gaslight’ the album will contain ten tracks, and is set for release in September 2007.

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Member Since: 1/24/2006
Band Website: readers-wifes.co.uk
Band Members: Kim Phaggs (Vocals) Chelsea Kelsey (Vocals) Mark Satanic (Guitar/Keyboards) Jeremy Kimberley (Keyboards)
Record Label: Bearcage
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Wifes Points System Update

Hey Everybody in the world!Guess what?  Gaslight (our critically acclaimed debut album....) is now available WORLD WIDE via iTunes!  That's right...even if you are 'anywhere' you can downloa...
Posted by Readers Wifes on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:07:00 PST

Download The Album! & other news

Dear FriendsApologies for the delay in updating you with news of the release of our album 'Gaslight' - there were a few glitchy-hitches in getting the data to the download sites, but all is now well -...
Posted by Readers Wifes on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:07:00 PST

Gaslight - The Album Release Date!

Hey Everybody, I cant really believe it myself but, well, BELIEVE IT! Because Gaslight is finally finished! It was Mastered last week and has been sent off to the distributors and everything, so we c...
Posted by Readers Wifes on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:54:00 PST

Readers Wifes Album Update

Chelsea here. It's been a while but we haven't been idle. The album is finally finished and now that we find ourselves at the mixing stage the end is finally in sight. Personally I want it out of the ...
Posted by Readers Wifes on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:40:00 PST

Readers Wifes Album - Track Listing Revealed!

Hello everybody. Cap'n Chelsea here, with some fairly momentous news. Our debut album Gaslight is almost finished. Yes, yes I know we've been here before but this time we really are at the tying-...
Posted by Readers Wifes on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:26:00 PST

Bern Baby, Bern!

Hey Everybody - guess where we have been!Bern, in Switzerland!!  We were asked to do a short PA at a club called Bubenacht - and it was brilliant.  I thought it would be like New York - all ...
Posted by Readers Wifes on Wed, 02 May 2007 04:09:00 PST

Read about us in 'The London Paper'

For those of you that missed our 'Culture Q & A' in The London Paper yesterday,  we have reproduced it in all its glory right here - below: Readers Wifes are Kim Phaggs and Chelsea Kelsey, tw...
Posted by Readers Wifes on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:54:00 PST

Aint no girl thing...

Hey Everybody, now that January is finally over (definately NOT Readers Wifes favourite time of year!) we have been quite strict in our efforts to get GASLIGHT finished. We had a fun afternoon in the ...
Posted by Readers Wifes on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:02:00 PST

Christmas at Wife Towers

Hey Everybody,I hope all of you who celebrate it have all your Christmas shopping done! I like to have mines all wrapped and under the tree by the beginning of October...FOR NEXT YEAR! SCREAM!This is ...
Posted by Readers Wifes on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:26:00 PST

Popstarz

Hey Everybody,Brrrrrr ! Isn't it getting wintery? Winter is officially the Readers Wifes favourite Season/time of year.SCREAM! Guess where we are DJ'ing at on Friday the 1st of December? .....POPSTARS...
Posted by Readers Wifes on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:04:00 PST