Wicked Kitchen Staff has been played on NTS shows including Sanpo Disco, with Captain Scarlet first played on 13 August 2017.

Wicked Kitchen Staff existed in its original form during 1982-83.

WKS were a core of 6 people, Tim on bass (plus violin on the album), Steve on Drums, Finn on guitar, Andrew Kort on sax, Jeremy Richardson on synth, and Russell Higgs on vocals and re-distribution of shoplifted goods among their audiences.

Tracks from the 1983 album "Debbie Grills Pulls Her Socks Up", with the album's red raw final mix, is as close to a live WKS experience as you're ever going to get.

The 6 tracks on the album were performed by the original WKS core of 6 people:

plus added vocals from Laura and added percussion from Mick.

During live performances WKS always offered anyone from their audiences an invitation to pick up an instrument (or some object) and come on stage and join in the music making.

Laura was an audience member at most of their London gigs who regularly joined them on stage for an exhilarating vocal duet with Russell.

At some of their gigs they performed as a 12 piece band.

Wicked Kitchen Staff had a reputation for distributing food and pamphlets and shoplifted gifts to their audiences.

Debbie Grills was another regular at a number of early WKS gigs and she won the prize of having their only album named after her. 1983's "Debbie Grills Pulls Her Socks Up".

The band's founder member Russell Shaw Higgs quit the band not long after the album was released.