Miranda Cordelia Susan Josephine Wiggs (born 26 February 1963 in Letchworth, Hertfordshire) is an English multi-instrumentalist rock musician best known as the bassist for the alternative rock bands The Breeders and The Perfect Disaster. She\'s also formed multiple side-projects, including her own bands Honey Tongue, The Josephine Wiggs Experience, and Dusty Trails.\n', '

Wiggs is the daughter of Richard Wiggs, a teacher of handicapped children and founder of the Anti-Concorde Project. Wiggs studied Philosophy at the University of London, earning a BA degree, going on to get an MA in Continental Philosophy from the University of Sussex. She studied cello for ten years. She joined The Perfect Disaster in 1988 as bass guitarist, playing on the albums Asylum Road, (1988) Up (1989) and Heaven Scent (1990) before going on to form The Breeders with Kim Deal and Tanya Donelly in 1990. Wiggs played cello on the Spacemen 3 album Playing With Fire.\n', '

In 1988, Wiggs met Kim Deal when Perfect Disaster supported the Pixies in London. In 1989, Deal asked Wiggs to join her and Tanya Donelly (of Throwing Muses) in making The Breeders first album Pod. Deal, Wiggs and Slint drummer Britt Walford rehearsed for a week at Wiggs\'s house in Bedfordshire, and for a further week with Donelly in London, before driving to Edinburgh to record the album with engineer Steve Albini. The album was released in 1990 on record label 4AD. In 1992, Deal visited Wiggs in Brighton during her time off from the Pixies, and they worked on the song "Safari," recording it in London with Wiggs\'s friend Spacemen 3/Spiritualized drummer Jon Mattock. This recording became the title track of The Breeders\' second release, the Safari EP.\n', '

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