So much of the spirit, attitude and simplicity of this comes from punk. Like punk, the ideas are spreading to ordinary women - and others of all ages - around the world!
Leicester
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?
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'.
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.
Channel 5 News came to Leicester to film Unglamorous workshops and talk with members of the bands. Here's the report:
Harmukh Doshi sentenced to 28 months’ imprisonment on 9 separate accounts of racially-aggravated harassment and offensive communications At Leicester Crown Court yesterday, Hasmukh Popatlal Doshi was convicted on six counts of sending offensive or menacing communications and three of inflicting racially-aggravated harassment, alarm or distress to Leicester East MP Claudia Webbe. This is far from […]
Channel 5 News came to Leicester to film Unglamorous workshops and talk with members of the bands. Here's the report:
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.
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.