Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

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>From: "jim_finnigan" <jim_finnigan[at]yahoo.com>
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>The Slits put on a great show at the Bard College Campus Center Multi-
>Purpose Room [how swanky is that name?] on Thursday 26 October. This 
>free concert attracted mostly a hunnerd or so Bard stoonts but there 
>was a smattering of nutters from out in the real world of neighboring 
>Kingston and Woodstock and Poughkeepsie to groove to the Slits punky 
>dubby sounds.   After the opening acts ­ Shellshag (the White Stripes 
>meet Television Personalities meet Z'ev ­ they had the ultimate 
>minimalist punk song with "1, 2, 3") and the Apes (Stereolab meets 
>Devo)  [and no, Leon Botstein did not give a music appreciation 
>lecture at the start of the show…] the anticipation rose and finally 
>out came Ari Up inna curly-locks stylee, Tessa on bass, and new 
>recruits No (a/k/a Nadya) on lead guitar, Adele on scratchy guitar, 
>Holly on harmonies, and clean-cut Anna on drums, launching into bird 
>sounds and John Holt's Man Next Door.   Well, Ari tried to do bird 
>sounds but the soundman had a little trouble figuring out how to do 
>reverb and there was the little issue of Ari being on the guitar mike 
>and No being on Ari's mike and Tessa's booming bass distorting 
>through the stage monitors but after a humorously chaotic opening it 
>all worked out irie.   The Slits set was a great hi-energy selection 
>of stuff from Cut and some of Ari's True Warriors songs: Man Next 
>Door / FM / World of Grown-ups / No More Cruel War / New Town / 
>Shoplifting / Dennis Brown's Revolution / Typical Girls / Kill Them 
>With Love / Let's Do the Split (2006 punky stylee).   Lots of singing 
>along ­ everybody knew the words - and some poging and jitterbugging 
>(the stoonts, not the nutters) and girls invited on stage [a `typical 
>boy' declined the honor].   Lots of bass sound ­ Tessa was great!   
>Ari had the band lower volume and vamp in a buncha songs so Tessa 
>could dub up the bass and Ari could rap and toast inna dancehall 
>stylee.   Everyone had a great time and two of my pompous and 
>opinionated colleagues ­ hi Bill! hi Raissa! ­ both agreed that it 
>was a fun show and that Tessa and Ari were great!  
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