Honey Tongue were an

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band formed by former member of

The Perfect Disaster The Perfect Disaster were an English alternative rock band from Bedfordshire/Hertfordshire, England, formed in 1980. They released four albums before splitting up in 1991. The only constant member was singer/guitarist Phil Parfitt. History Th ...

and The Breeders

Josephine Wiggs Miranda Cordelia Susan Josephine Wiggs (born 26 February 1963) is an English multi-instrumentalist rock musician, best known for her work as bassist in the alternative rock bands The Breeders and The Perfect Disaster. She has also formed mult ...

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

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/ Spacemen 3/ Spiritualized drummer

Jon Mattock Jonny Mattock is an English drummer and percussionist from Northampton, England, who was a member of, or played with, Massive Attack, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, The Perfect Disaster, Slipstream, Lupine Howl, Cranes, Baxter Dury, The Breeders, ...

. The band later recorded as The Josephine Wiggs Experience.

History

The band was initially intended as a one-off project while Wiggs and Mattock continued with their other bands.Raggett, Ned " Honey Tongue Biography, ''

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'', Macrovision Corporation Wiggs had met Mattock when she added cello to tracks for Spacemen 3's ''Playing With Fire'' album, and Mattock had played drums on The Perfect Disaster's ''Heaven Scent'' album.Rogers, Jon (2004)
Re : View-Honey Tongue : Nude Nudes
, pennyblackmusic.com, 31 January 2004, retrieved 6 September 2009 The duo formed Honey Tongue in April 1991 and began recording demos. ''Nude Nudes'' was recorded in December 1991 with Audu Obaje (formerly a member of Collapse) producing, and released in 1992, which was their only album released as Honey Tongue, although the same line-up (with Obaje also on guitar) released the ''Bon-Bon Lifestyle'' album as The Josephine Wiggs Experience in 1996.

Discography

*''Nude Nudes'' (1992),

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*''Bon-Bon Lifestyle'' (1996),

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- as

The Josephine Wiggs Experience Miranda Cordelia Susan Josephine Wiggs (born 26 February 1963) is an English multi-instrumentalist rock musician, best known for her work as bassist in the alternative rock bands The Breeders and The Perfect Disaster. She has also formed mult ...

References

External links

*Raggett, Ned " ''Nude Nudes'' Review, ''

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