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!
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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?
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:
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.
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.
The music we are making is a new tranche of art rock music - every bit as valid as The Velvet Underground, The Sex Pistols, The Beatles ... but with women evolving new themes and sounds.
Unglamorous music is a very specific approach to learning, aimed at women - but applicable to anyone lacking in confidence and experience of playing.