Are the bad bitches of Dream Wife one of the best live bands in the UK at the moment? We’d make a pretty strong argument for it.
The London-based trio of Rakel Mjöll, Alice Gough and Izzy Podpadec are in their prime as a live act and brought plenty of energy and raucour to their latest run of UK shows in the cities of Cardiff, Nottingham, Sheffield, Glasgow and Newcastle.
FEISTY was at the Sheffield headline show at the packed-out, 400-capacity Crookes Social Club, and @katyfeisty captured photos of their bright, raucous set.
Material from across Dream Wife’s three albums featured, with extensive selections from second album So When You Gonna… – which they had barely played previously due to lockdown – and last year’s Social Lubrication.
The newer material was punctuated by highlights from debut album Dream Wife (hyped by proto-FEISTY in 2018 as one of the albums of the year), chat and fun choreographed spots that engaged a largely female-presenting and queer audience.
Support came from Dream Nails, the similarly-named punk band often conflated with Dream Wife. The bands unofficially, on the back of this, called the run of dates the “Dream Tour”.
Check out a selection of our photos below:
Dream Wife are headlining the Ritual Union all-dayer in Bristol on March 23rd and playing Wanderlust in Southampton on May 4th. They’re also at Reading and Leeds in August.
