Hey everybody, how long has it been since I last updated you... AGES! And what have we been up to?… LOADS!

Well for a start we are now back to our original line up as a four piece, AND, because as the temperature is starting to cool down a bit, guess where we have all been? THE STUDIO!

We have almost finished two brand new tracks, "Weekend Colder Brighter" which is absolutely great, its quite moving actually with (as usual) really great lyrics by Chelsea and my personal favourite at the moment "Cheap Dress" which is a real Towering Inferno of Hi NRG angst! It's the real deal baby! On this track we are planning another guest vocalist but I shall be letting you know more about that when the time comes, and once it’s all sorted OKAY?

Thanks also to everyone who came down to see us at The Flaming Cave Lounge on the Carrie Prom Night Party, sorry about the confusion over the dates we had listed on the website... Ooops! Anyway, it was an absolute scream, although I was finding red glitter in the strangest of places for days afterwards!

Oh and one of the best things was, the week before last we were photographed by Kate Garner, for iD magazine, it was an absolute honour, and a real laugh too, that girl sure knows some great stories...NONE of which I would be allowed to repeat here, or anywhere for that matter! She ROCKS!

Wo listen, we are not planning any more live dates at the moment, well not until just before Christmas, and that is going to be REALLY special, as we are really concentrating on getting some studio stuff done, honestly!

In the meantime why don’t you watch "Paris is Burning" on DVD, that’s what I would do…

Love KIM PHAGGS x

Nostalgia came out last Monday, hooray! I hope you got your copy already, if not CHECK IT OUT HMV and VIRGIN!! For your nerves. Also check out i-Tunes mother funky...!

Did you watch Big Brother? Well, Readers Wifes played Cock Live last weekend and guess who was there....Kamal! He was supposed to be DJ,ing but only had THREE CD's with him! He was very funny and just like he is on the telly... of course! Cock live was brilliant fun, and guess what? We are doing another collaboration! Scream-a-dellica, of course I'm not telling you who with, just yet.

Anyways, after Cock Live on the Saturday we all went down to Brighton on the Sunday as we were asked to sing a couple of songs at Queer Bash, at the Concord 2. Well it was the first time we have ever played a gig in Brighton, which is funny actually because the first time we ever DJ'ed as Readers Wifes was in Brighton at a club called The Loft I think... probably shut down now I should expect. Anyway ramble ramble, Brighton gig lovely, had a good laugh on the train and a nice carry on on the beach in the afternoon.

Oh yes, remember I was telling you about my i-Pod, well I LOST IT ALREADY! It must have fell out my pocket in a taxi or something, oh how I laughed!

Anyway, we are DJ'ing this Friday, guess where...Somerset House, they are showing Flash Gordon the film and we are DJ'ing before and after it. That is one of the best films ever made. Especially the bit where Peter Davidson has to put his hand into the big tree trunk and not get stung by the creature inside and you think he is okay and then... oh sorrry I wont spoil it for you in case you havent seen it.

Love KIm Phaggs

We are also doing Friday night at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, that should be great too, as Severino is DJ'ing for us. I absolutely can’t wait, I hope you can come.

Oh yes, the video for Nostalgia is finished. It was finished a little time back, but I have been on holidays so I didn’t post, sorry. Anyway we showed it at Duckie on Saturday night and everyone seemed to like it. I think that we will be having it up on the site soon too, but I kind of leave the super-tech stuff to other people, as I seem to be a bit of a technical jinx with all that sort of stuff, although my iPod seems to be going okay so far, I have had it for a couple of months now and it still isn’t broken or crashed or whatever they do, anyways I will keep you posted on how the two nights go OKAY?

Love Kim Phaggs

Okay, HOORAY, the video for Nostalgia is finally finished. Brian dropped the final copy off to us last week and it is BRILLIANT, I think it totally ROCKS ! So... hopefully when you read this there will be some COOL screen grabs from the Nostalgia video for you to look at, and if there isn’t... just wait because they will be up here soon. OKAY!

Also, the Readers Wifes will be appearing at the Morrissey tribute night at the Coronet, Elephant and Castle. In their DJ sense and a "surprise" appearance with the rest of the Wifes... Check it out then take it AROUND TOWN!

More Soon, Love ALWAYS Kim Phaggs.

Anyway the Nostalgia video is ALMOST finished; Chelsea and I are going into the studio tomorrow to do some close ups!! SCREAM !!! Hope we don’t break the camera HAHA!

We have been getting really nice feedback about the remixes, I kind of flip between the two, sometimes I like The Most mix best then some other times I like the Atomizer mix the best and then there are times when I like the original best and then there are times when I like them all the best, and then there are times when I don’t like ANY of them the best and just put on Enya. But that’s not very often.

I can’t wait for tomorrow as we are meeting Justin as well and going for a pizza, and guess what else? I am getting a iPod, Chelsea is coming with me, wonder how long it will be before I end up breaking it or it crashes... probably about a couple of days ... YiKE-A-RELLA!!!!

Hopefully we will have some exciting developments to announce to you in regards to Nostalgia in the next week or so, but you will have to wait...

Bye Love KIM PHAGGS

Sorry for the late update to the diary page, but I have been having some computer difficulties... everything seems to be sorted out now I hope.

So, as you can see, there are some pictures of the first part of the Nostalgia video shoot on the photo page, we all want to say a huge thank you to everybody who came down to the shoot, it was really good fun, although, by the end if the shoot both Chelsea and myself were kind of regretting that we had decided to wear afghan coats as part of our dramatic new look! It was absolutely boiling... still, we are no strangers to suffering for our art.

We have been finishing off the other tracks for the single too; Lets Spend The Night Together and Endless Night, both sounding lovely.

This coming Thursday we are DJing at "What We Like", DJ Lush's night at Black Cap in Camden, that should be fun, OH and last week we went to "Electrogogo" at Madame Jo Jo's and saw Wendy James, she was brilliant, and she still looks absolutely gorgeous, really cool.

What else, oh yes that’s right we are sorting out some stuff for the Morrissey night at The Coronet in the summertime, we are DJing at it and I think the band might be putting in an appearance too!

I will give you more info when things are a bit more concrete. But that’s enough to be going on with for now, if I think of anything else I will let you know.

Love Kim Phaggs.

Anyway, the band all dressed up like Mick, Marianne and dead-eyed Stones hangers-on circa 1969 and a whole load of our mates turned out looking just gorgeous for the crowd shots. Thanks to all those who came and put up with the stop-start. I've seen some of the "rushes" and can assure you it was well worth all that time hanging about in heels. Jonny Slut, you were truly terrifying.

Thanks also to director Bryan, our make-up artiste Steph, Simon-the-stylist, juicy DJ Jim Stanton and the marvellous Mark Oakley, who kept the bar open for the duration. You know you went far beyond the call of duty and you know we love you madly for it, you slaaaaaaags. Pip pip!

Love Chelsea
x

I hope you are all enjoying the Springtime weather, Springtime is the Readers Wifes favourite time of year... except for me... I like Summertime the best, but anyway I just wanted to let you know what has been going down... Wife Wise.

We are back in the studio this weekend, AGAIN... we are finishing off Nostalgia, its pretty much all been recorded really, so there is just a couple of bits to be added, then we are going for a curry to celebrate Chelsea Kelsey’s birthday before we go to Duckie... Hooray! Then, next week we are filming the video for the single, we are "shooting" it in a club in south London and the theme is kind of like a big party scene with all our friends in it, a little bit like the end bit in the St Etienne video for I Was Born On Christmas Day... I hope! I know I am always saying this but I absolutely promise to get some pictures from the day and post them on the site OKAY!

Love Kim Phaggs.

Anyway what have we been up to?... Well, it’s all been a bit "go" at the moment as we have been back in Wolf Studios doing some work. We have been recording Nostalgia, with Justin Bond, which has been lovely, and we are reworking Endless Night, which just seems to be taking FOREVER. While we were waiting for Dominique to load up some files we all went upstairs and watched the "A Song For Europe (or Britain) Show" it was brilliant... Well of course it wasn’t but wasn’t Jordan/Katie Price's song great? Chelsea and I were singing it on the bus afterwards when we went for a curry before Duckie.

I hope you are all looking forward to Friday and Comic Relief. Chelsea and I are going to dress up as Little Britain and stand outside all the tube stations on the Northern line, we are being sponsored to see how long it takes for us to get battered. NOT REALLY!

Love Kim Phaggs.

Anyway, Madame Jo Jo's was fun. Princess Julia and Severin on the decks, someone mentioned to me that the sight of those two together behind the DJ booth was worth the entrance fee alone! Then US! I think there are some pictures to come that will be up on line as soon as we can sort them out. Then Severino. He played an amazing set, he is genius edition DJ, keeping the punters dancing right up until chucking out time. Thanks to all of you who came down, I hope you had a fun time, and to those of you who didn’t, I hope you can come to the next one on the 10th of Feb!

We were on at Nag Nag Nag last Wednesday, we did a super short set which was really well received by the crowd down there... brilliant fun.

So now we are on at The Cock on Friday 4th, and then, on the following
Monday, the 7th, guess what single is released?… SCUMPOP ...... Hooray! I hope you will all run out buy it, or maybe some of you have already ordered it ON LINE! Anyway we hope you like it....

See you at Number One in the charts! Loving your work.
KIM PHAGGS xxx