On IWD 8th March, we launched a Kickstarter project to raise the money to make a sampler album with eight of the Leicester all-women bands on it. It's an ambitious project, and we're in need of some big inputs in the next two weeks if the Kickstarter is to become successful.
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Music industry says it's fine to be a woman in music so long as you are well-groomed, beautiful, young, slim, good-natured, articulate, desirable, charming and possess incredible talent. If you're Tina Turner, Joni Mitchell or Debbie Harry it's ok because you used to be all those things and even after the age of 70, you can be 'looking good for your age'.
This week, Cathy from Velvet Crisis was published in The Guardian saying how she'd joined a band as part of the unglamorous music project, so here's a blog post about what Velvet Crisis have been doing.
Here's a few ideas that might help you have a go at playing instruments without making any big financial commitment:
It soon becomes obvious that other media outlets source stories from Positive News. Would we do a podcast interview? Would we be interviewed for an English teaching magazine? Could The Guardian do a feature and interview some of the older women involved? Could Channel 5 News come up and film a jam session and talk to some women?