Wednesday’s Child – All Dressed Up

With their debut EP All Dressed Up set for release on 6th February 2025, London’s female-led art-rock quartet Wednesday’s Child are carving out a thrilling new space in the city’s alternative scene. Described by Tom Robinson of BBC 6 Music as “fresh and focused DIY,” the band blend theatricality, poetry, and angular rock with a striking emotional openness.

Their first single “KNEES”, releasing 28th November, offers a bold introduction to the EP’s world—one that intertwines psychological honesty, experimental production, vivid storytelling, and a sense of collective empowerment. Ahead of their show at The George Tavern on 10th December, Wednesday’s Child sat down with us to discuss the process behind All Dressed Up, its emotional backbone, and the second-childhood bond that fuels their creativity.

Your new EP All Dressed Up blends theatrical rock and poetry into something both angular and delicate. How did you approach balancing those contrasting elements in your songwriting?

We all have quite varied tastes in music and visual art, and we don’t tend to approach writing sessions with specific song references. We try to follow our guts more than stick to a structure, and end up surprising each other with new sounds. Sometimes we’re all on the same wavelength, and other times we are sewing together a patchwork of ideas, and then seeing if the monster lives!

The first single, KNEES, drops on 28th November. Can you tell us what inspired this track and how it sets the tone for the rest of the EP?

Georgia recently found one of the first voicenotes of KNEES on her phone from November 2023, which means the song is now a two year old toddler. It started out as being a very literal retelling of the fallout from a short-lived romance, but soon turned into more of an existential conundrum… the tension between feeling nostalgic for childhood innocence, whilst rebelling against it. Life can feel sacred and silly at the same time, which can lead to the emotional whiplash of wanting to both connect and protect. There’s also a lot in there about finding empowerment through standing your ground, even when someone else is diminishing your desires; holding on long enough to find your people, your tribe, who look after and love you. Even though we didn’t grow up together, within the band we are creating a second childhood together.

The full EP, All Dressed Up, explores psychological struggles. How much of the EP is autobiographical versus storytelling?

One of the lyrics on the EP is ‘I tell the truth even when I lie’, meaning that even when something isn’t autobiographical on the outside, the fantasy can still be true to the inner emotional journey. It’s more about how something feels than how it looks, and in that way everything on the EP is true to experience.

Having sold out shows in London, Manchester, and Bristol, how has performing live influenced the recording process or the way you shape your music?

Performing is definitely a different beast to recording, and it can be interesting to play our unreleased songs onstage to get a sense of the live sound and energy. In making this new EP, we were conscious about wanting the recordings to capture the intensity that can build during a gig, especially on a song like Learn to Say Goodbye which keeps amping up and up. We want people who come to our shows to feel how much we love each other, and how much we believe in our stories, having lived these songs ourselves.

The EP was recorded at RAK and Ten87 Studios. Did the studio environment or production approach change how you expressed the themes of vulnerability and confrontation in your songs?

The new EP is the result of intimate diary entries and hands-on creative experimentation from us all. Amelia engineered a lot of the EP herself at Ten87, and we also did production sessions in Joel’s bedroom whenever we could squeeze in the time between our work schedules. We collaborated with producer Morgan Jones at RAK who is a wonderful friend of ours and understands the world we are building. A world in which everything that falls apart can be brought back together and there is hope for wholeness. We wanted everything in the recordings to feel as raw and tangible as when we perform live. When we listen back to the EP now, we can hear our commitment to staying open, even when it can be confronting (and scary!) to do so.