LOUD WOMEN is an international intersectional feminist music CIC, founded in 2015 by Cassie Fox of I, Doris, and run internationally with help from our amazing Team LOUD WOMEN volunteers.
Our aim is to put more women on more stages, and turn up the volume.
“the perfect antidote to male-heavy festival line-ups” – NME
“Fans of women-centric punk, rock and riot grrrl will heart this UK-based promoter.” – DIVA magazine
“If you’ve ever stared at a festival bill and asked, ‘Where are all the women?’ – they’re playing LOUD WOMEN Fest” – Kerrang!
LOUD WOMEN projects include:
- regular live music nights, featuring the best in all-woman and woman-fronted riot-pop-punk-rock-awesome
- radio shows spinning all the best new music from our scene
- A large and active main Facebook group for sharing ideas and news
- LOUD WOMEN Chapters around the world! New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, Canada, Ireland, Spain and Australia
- LOUD WOMEN FEST – an annual festival in London – and now also in Melbourne and New York
- LOUD WOMEN e-zine – the latest music news delivered fresh in your inbox monthly
- LOUD WOMEN Records – compilations and more
- LOUD WOMEN Playlist – a playlist of the talented bands and artists associated with LOUD WOMEN
- The LOUD WOMEN Hercury Prize – honouring the best albums by British Isles-based women/non-binary-led bands and solo artists
In a band and think you’d fit in nicely on a LOUD WOMEN line-up?
Email us at info@loudwomen.org
Here’s what the LOUD WOMEN themselves say about us …
“LOUD WOMEN has constantly championed women, non-binary and queer people, and nurtured communities and grassroots movements” – Phoebe Lunn, Lambrini Girls
“Awesome crowds, amazing bands and one of the most supportive promoters you’re likely to meet.” – Angela from Bugeye
“Joyously rageful” – Janey Starling
“LOUD WOMEN is a long-overdue opportunity to enjoy fierce and feisty female-led music – and, for me, to take poetry to an audience of people who don’t usually like poetry.” – Janine Booth
“Real feminism and sisterhood in action with a rrriotous score.” – Diane Goldie
[…] LOUD WOMEN is a group for all those who support putting women on stage, and turning up the volume. It’s a not-for-profit initiative run by Cassie Fox of The Wimmins’ Institute, with help from some brilliant friends. The annual LOUD WOMEN fest will be taking place this Saturday, showcasing the best female talent around. The venue is DIY Space for London in South Bermondsey – a co-operatively run social space that’s worth checking out in its own right. […]
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