Colour Me Wednesday’s album Counting Pennies in the Afterlife is out now, and who better to talk us through the track than the band themselves … Continue reading ‘Counting Pennies in the Afterlife’: track by track guide by Colour Me Wednesday
Counting Pennies in the Afterlife acronymizes as CPITAL; you can even see a PCF flag fluttering in the optimistic breeze of the ‘Sunriser’ video, the album’s first single; yet at first glance the politics here are less conspicuous than before. Continue reading Colour Me Wednesday: ‘Counting Pennies in the Afterlife’ – review
The media regularly bemoan a lack of politics in music, compared to a mythic 60s/70s/80s ‘good old days’ – only to salute as an exception the occasional gobby indie-boy band trying to kickstart their career with some token rebellious rhetoric. Meanwhile, every year there are more fiercely-politicised, intelligent and committed activists working hard to build the DIY feminist punk scene, far from the plaudits and pitfalls of the spotlight. In this new series of interviews, LOUD WOMEN meets them and asks them some of the questions that the music industry won’t. Continue reading LW Politics & Music – Part 4: Jen Doveton (Colour Me Wednesday)
by Kris Smith, LOUD WOMEN’s Music Editor LOUD WOMEN YouTube playlist here Petrol Girls – Touch Me Again The Tuts – Con Man Slotface – Sponge State Witching Waves – The Threat Crumbs – On Tiptoes Actual Crimes – I Don’t Want To See Fight Rosa Fight – This Scene, This Scene Colour Me Wednesday – In Your Shoes Dream Nails – Bully Girl Big Joanie … Continue reading LOUD WOMEN’s top 20 tracks of the year
