Rebecca Stephens (born 30 July 1982) is a singer, formerly with British band The Pipettes, where she was commonly known as RiotBecki.
She is a self-described feminist and has a degree in media studies and film and video production from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College having written her dissertation on early Seventies hardcore pornography.
In April 2005, she contributed vocals to the hip-hop album Flowers & Trees by fellow Brightonian Y.Misdaq aka Yoshi, and has also provided vocals for The Blind Cowboys, a project by bandmate Jon Cassette and Thomas White of The Electric Soft Parade and Brakes on their cover of "Sometimes Always".
[citation needed] On 10 October 2008, Stephens announced in a MySpace blog that she had just returned from a trip to Atlanta, Georgia where she had recorded a number of demos with Randy Michael of Atlanta band The Booze under the name Electric Blue, after the pornographic film of the same name.
[3] In June 2010, it was announced on MySpace that Stephens had formed a new band, Projectionists, with Pete Marshall, Christian Madden, Sam Morris and Paul Mortlock, that they had completed their first EP, and would be playing various venues during the remainder of the year.