Billy Reeves
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Billy Reeves is a songwriter and producer who founded the London-based indie-band theaudience in 1996, (featuring Sophie Ellis Bextor on vocals).
The band quickly established itself in the Camden scene of '97. They scored two top 30 (UK) hits ('A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed' and 'I Know Enough') and a top twenty (UK) eponymous album before splitting after a disastrous Glastonbury '98 performance.
Reeves signed to Sony Records with a new act ('Yours') in 1999. He also ran the club which provided the Darkness with their first London show. His performing career was tragically cut short by injuries sustained in a near fatal car accident in 2001.
Reeves has since reinvented himself as a presenter and newsreader on BBC Radio London, and he is also developing a career as a club DJ. Having been involved in "Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception" which clocked up 200 shows, Reeves is behind a new 80's-disco club night called "Aftershow", at the Bullet Bar in Kentish Town, which opened on 26th May 2006.
