Drumroll please as we can finally announce the full 22 track listing for the hotly-anticipated LOUD WOMEN Volume Two compilation album, which will be launched 14 September 2019 at LOUD WOMEN Fest 4!
1
The Franklys
Not Guilty
2
The Txlips
The Lost One
3
I, Doris
The Girl From Clapham
4
The Menstrual Cramps
No Means No
5
The Cleopatras
Forty
6
LIINES
Never Wanted This
7
Pussyliquor
My Body My Choice
8
Pleasure Venom
Hive
9
ARXX
Iron Lung
10
Ms Mohammed
Never Again
11
The Baby Seals
It’s Not About the Money, Honey
12
Peach Club
Not Your Girl
13
T-Bitch
Frighty Nighty
14
Jemma Freeman & The Cosmic Something
Someone Else to Blame
15
Jelly Cleaver
Yarl’s Wood
16
Secondhand Underpants
The Anthem
17
Gaptooth
Post-Patriarchy Disco
18
Vaginas, What Else?
Loose Tile
19
GGAllan Partridge
I Feel Lobe
20
Hurtling
Don’t Know Us
21
Personal Best
Radio
22
Bridget Hart
Let Loose Lucy
The CD is available to pre-order now for just £5 from our Bandcamp page – and as a thank you for pre-ordering, when the CD releases after 14 Sept we’ll also send you a copy of Volume One! So that’s 42 of the loudest of loud women, all for a cheeky fiver.
“Scabrous riffs, inventive songcraft and full force in-your-face woman power from all bands involved. Loud Women festival shows up the mainstream by exhibiting the very best of women in rock.”
– Paula Frost, Vive Le Rock
“LOUD WOMEN are inspiring social change”
– Kerrang!
“At a time of toxic masculinity in the industry, platforms like Loud Women are a brilliant, and brazen, beacon of hope shining a floodlight on marginalised musicians. Turn it up LOUD.“
We chatted to Ari from Pussyliquor ahead of their welcome return to LW Fest!
Pussyliquor! We are SO looking forward to welcoming you back to LW Fest! You’ve played loads of gigs since last year – how do you feel you’ve grown/changed/developed as a band in the year that’s passed?
Thank you! We are super excited to play, since playing last year we’ve been through a lot! We’ve travelled to new lands and lost fragments of our minds along the way, but in the holes those fragments created grew life and new understanding. We’ve been hardened by experience, erect are we as stand together against evil forces. Our voices have never felt so strong, we can feel them touching the four corners of the Earth. As we travel and meet many new souls our message and purpose becomes clearer. And we now know what we must do: party on.
Absolutely loved ‘7 inch Wonder’ – can you talk us through the two tracks a bit in your own words?
The songs we recorded at Access to Music back in December 2016. As you can see that’s quite a while from it’s release, an entire year in fact. We are simply slow like snails, but it’s okay to be slow. The songs are probably the most collaborative out of all our songs, we really sat down together in a circle and bounced the ideas off each other. The songs being so topical, ‘Kitty Kitty’ being about cat calling and ‘Get Out’ being about ‘romantic encounters’, made it easy to write about as we could all relate. We wanted get out to be a useful song as the idea came from a conversation we were already having, one of us facing the night before the issue of having someone round and not getting the hint to leave the house and go home. ‘Kitty Kitty’ is a response to a problem shared by many people, it’s giving us a platform to tell cat callers what we really think of them.
Your song ‘Hurtz’ is intriguing – could you talk us through what the song is about?
Hurtz was written about being told by your elders at a young age ‘he’s only mean to you because he lives you’ and ‘boys will be boys’. We realised how detrimental this can be as you grow older, seeing the abusive traits in your partner and continuing the thought of ‘he’s only mean to you because he likes you’. We were always told this when we were younger, so we wanted to create a song young girls in particular could hear to help them quickly break that thought pattern.
What can we look forward to from Pussyliquor?
World domination is the final goal. In the meantime, we’ll be launching more tracks into the universe! Another double sided 7inch and a music video are currently in production, tracks will also be available online. We hope to start planning a UK tour for next year! There will be so much merchandise and content!!!
Who are you looking forward to seeing play at Loud Women Fest?
We’re really looking forward to Petrol Girls, GUTTFULL and Zand again – we caught their first show the other night and they absolutely smashed it!! We will finally catch The Menstrual Cramps properly as well, lots of artists on the line up which we’ve never heard of before so it’s exciting to see some new names!
Tell us anything else you think it’s important we know about you/your music!
Our music is for everyone, we don’t want anyone to feel excluded by the topics we present as anybody can take something and learn from them or just relish in the fun and dance! Our intentions are to unite everyone together and empower each other! We want to create open discussion through music and give voice to those who have trouble being heard. By writing these songs we have set moral guidelines for ourselves which are growing and being challenged; with the presence of these songs in our lives we’ve been offered subject for thought and development. If we didn’t have the songs we’d have never expanded on our ideas, we encourage all of you to take what you learn and evolve!
Thanks for having us Loud Women!!
This year’s final line-up for LOUD WOMEN Fest has just been announced, and now includes worldclass artists She Makes War and Efa Supertramp! Here’s a taster of how it’s going to look …
This, the 3rd annual LOUD WOMEN Fest will showcase 21 punk and indie acts in 1 day, over 2 neighbouring stages – The Dome and the Boston Music Room, Tufnell Park, London. Last year’s festival massively sold out, so early ticket-buying is advised!
Plus DJs including Mammory Tapes AND cake stall from Ladies of the Lock – The WI group for Camden, Kentish Town…
This year, we’re taking over The Dome, Tufnell Park and Boston Music Room. Using these two amazing, world-class neighbouring venues we can keep the music constant throughout the day, and make our Fest bigger and better than ever!
Expect:
* Delicious hot food and cakes.
* Stalls with zines and goodies.
* The best damn day/night out of the year.
Applications from stallholders and zine sellers, other kinds of performers that we haven’t even thought of yet, and any other enquiries to loudwomenclub@gmail.com
LOUD WOMEN Fest is back in 2018 – bigger and louder than ever! Building on the massive success of our last two Festivals, we’re expanding to two much larger venues: The Dome, Tufnell Park, and Boston Music Room
Applications from stallholders and zine sellers, other kinds of performers that we haven’t even thought of yet, and any other enquiries to loudwomenclub@gmail.com
ZAND
Outspoken non-binary alt popstar from Blackpool.
The Franklys
Swedish-British indie-rock. “In-your-face and awesome” – DIVA.
Grace Savage
4 x UK Beatbox Champion.
Jesus & his Judgemental Father
Queer punx from Leeds.
The Twistettes
Scottish sister duo: “DIY, punk, riot grrrl, real-deal indie with a touch of psychobilly”.
Pussyliquor
All girl punk band from Brighton. “Pure uncensored female rage.”
Crumbs
A post-punk pop party pack from Yorkshire.
Ms. Mohammed
“Powerful, Feminist, Brilliant, Goddess-like with raging guitars & tribal drums!” – BBC Asian Network
GET YOUR £15 TICKET NOW!
Sister Ghost
Noisy, spectral art-rock with a pop heart.
The Menstrual Cramps
The band that made Oi cry! Winners of the 2017 LOUD WOMEN Hercury Prize.
WOLF GIRL
Noisy pop four-piece based in South London who write about sexuality, gender and anxiety.
Sam Amant
Brilliant, bold, controversial, French one-woman hurricane.
The Baby Seals
Our favourite empowerpop trio from Cambridge.
Art Trip & the Static Sound
Stunning London powerpunx led by the famazing Melodie Holliday.
Jemma Freeman & the Cosmic Something
Expect high energy performances and compositions of cosmic content.
PLUS DJs including MAMMORY TAPES and more bands TBA!
Keep an eye on your inbox for a full ezine coming soon, with news of a whole heap of new regular gigs at the Hope & Anchor. In the meantime, if you want to get in touch drop us a line on loudwomenclub@gmail.com, like our FB page or join our FB group.
We received nearly 300 applications from awesome grrrl bands and singing wimmin to play our Fest, so it was a gut-wrenching task to sift down to this final list … we’ve had to say no (this time, at least) to some amazing acts, but I’m sure you’ll agree that the final list the panel of Team LOUD WOMEN arrived at is the perfect mix of exciting, talented, new, beloved, varied, amaaaazing and above all LOUD WOMEN!
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