About Queen Jo...
If there were ever to be a Disco Queen’s New Years Honours List dj Queen Josephine would top it. 2008 saw proof of this when she won Best Female Dj 2008 at GScene’s Golden Handbag Awards. There wasn’t an unclapping hand in the building as Brighton’s favourite majesty collected her award and deservedly so. Queen Josephine has to be one of the hardest working dj’s around.
Her djing career started when she abandoned the role of dj widow and secured a residency at Brighton’s infamous Zanzibar. Soon a slot at the Candy Bar beckoned and her headline sets at Candy’s Pussy Parties and at Brighton Pride ensured this queen was duly worshipped. Her hands in the air commercial dance mixed with a dash of credible and yet so sweet soulful house keeps dance floor’s seduced wherever she plays be it at Electronic Disco, Secret Disco, Mardi Gras @ Charles St Club, Sugar, Purple In The Park, Work! @ Heaven, The Pussycat Club @ Digital, Mad Cow, Dining Dykes, Anthem, Pride In Brighton And Hove Wild Fruit Official After Parties, Romp At The Races or Spectacular, Spectacular, at The Candy Bar's Dance Tent at Pride in Preston Park 2001-2003 & 2006-2007, The Wild Fruit Dance Tent 2008, Spangle, Koochie, Ultimate Girls Party @ Concorde 2, Housewives Choice, Shameless Hussies, Passion, Decent and her own club night ‘Majesty’.
With Aeon Events Queenie reigns with style. A style varied but always quality be it the bass heavy filth of Rebel, the old skool and disco tinged delights of Wild Fruit or her sunset sessions at Sunday Sundae.
Add her creative forces in bands including Xi-Xi, QDance, Sunshine Sisters and Jack and you have a multi-talented star. Off the decks Queen Josephine has also delivered; alongside Kate Wildblood for the compilations ‘Secret Disco’ and ‘Private Party II’ or courtesy of her vocal prowess on Goloka’s ‘Afterglow’. Qj is currently enjoying a singing renaissance as she joins Mr Haywood in the studio. Hear just some of the results on Haywood’s ‘Hotel St Tropez’ The Zen Room and via the ‘Private Party II Aural Pleasures’ compilation where QJ and Mr Pete Haywood combine beautifully on the lush ‘Sweet Music’. And of course there’s the stunning ‘Afterlife’ from Goloka on iLabel. Queen Josephine seduces as she sings her way through ‘Tobacco Slide’ and ‘Save Me Tonight’. And with those Goloka tracks making it onto ‘Puro Desert Lounge Weekend’ for Seamless and the acclaimed ‘Hotel Costes’ series, the joy of our Queenie’s unique vocal talent are going global.
She may describe herself as “camp as tits” and think we see her as a “kind old queen” but the truth is so much more regal than that. This Queen Josephine rules. On the dancefloors she plays to and the clubbers who love her. Long may she rule, as she puts, “all fruity like”.
“Just as Boxing Day follows Christmas Day, so Rebel follows Wild Fruit. Tonight Rebel was hosted at the Honey Bar where Queen Jo pumped out the tunes whilst Dulcie kept her ears pressed to her headphones and presided over another fantastic post-Fruit bash... it's hard to explain just how good the Fruit/Rebel combo is! The mood from Fruit is seamlessly transferred over to Rebel so that we can carry on enjoying the night until it's the morning...”
Rebel @ Honeyclub
“I headed down to Concorde to Girls on Top vs. Wet Pussy's official 'Girls Party'. The two rooms of Concorde were being entertained by Dulcie Danger, Riki Rocket, HRH Queen Jo, DJ King-K and Lady Bex and the atmosphere was electric. .”
Girls On Top @ Concorde 2
"Sparkling six’s filled the club, as did gorgeous girls dancing non-stop to the tunes of Queen Jo and Miss Annik. " Bex Wade, Real Brighton. 30.09.06
"The atmosphere increased with the capacity and through the DJing skills of Holly, Rocket and Queen Jo plus the wife (and her smile!). There were gorgeous girls, boys and even dogs... it had better be returning next year or there'll be trouble!" Bex Wade Real Brighton 08.08.06
“Well what can we say..? Candy Bar once again outdoing themselves! This was one amazing night!
Envy was packed to the brim with the regular supply of gorgeous ladies enjoying tunes from the crowd pleasing Queen Jo and Kate Wildblood! These guys were awesome! Packing out
the already rammed dance floor. What a night!”
Wet Pussy March 2006
“Queen Josephine was outstanding and certainly kept the crowd going all night - a heaving frenzy of happy faces packing the venue.”
Majesty March 2006
"The regal DJ has become a bit of an institution in the clubs of Brighton and she currently has residencies at the Candy Bar and Charles Street Club as well as regular stints at Wild Fruit and Sunday Sundae. Punters even started a Bring Back The Queen Petition when she left a venue recently. This is one queen Brighton definitely can’t do without." Ask The Dj. www.rainbownetwork.com November 2006