Dream Wife

Dream Wife is an English, London-based band, whose sound is a mixture of punk rock, pop music and indie rock. The band consists of Rakel Mjöll (lead vocals), Alice Go (guitar, vocals), and Bella Podpadec (bass, vocals). They have been supported by Alex Paveley on drums since 2018. In 2018, the band was included on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 13 Best Things We Saw" at that year's Lollapalooza music festival. Kev Geoghegan and Paul Glynn of BBC Music called Dream Wife "a jaw-dropping live act and one of the most talked-about new bands of 2018." Joe Lynch of Billboard wrote "Dream Wife are inarguably one of the most exhilarating live rock bands to emerge within the last few years." History Early years Lead vocalist Rakel Mjöll (b. ) was born in Iceland and spent eight years of her childhood living in Santa Clara and San Jose, California. She also trained in jazz and opera as a teenager in Reykjavík. Somerset-raised bassist Bella Podpadec (b. ) met guitarist Alice Go (b. ) at a Mid-Somerset Battle of the Bands. The two women, and Bella who is non-binary, went on to attend Brighton University and in 2014 they formed the band as an art school performance project. The trio had the concept of forming a "fake girl band" and they recorded themselves composing the songs that they would eventually perform at an art gallery exhibition. The film was shot in a mockumentary style inspired by This Is Spinal Tap. After graduation the band moved to London.