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

["Bess Korey" <besskorey AT gmail.com>]

 

Ok, so here's some shameless self-promotion. I apologize in advance for it, but I do think that some people in this group may be interested in what I am promoting, otherwise I wouldn't mention it here.

 

An interview I did with Nina Antonia, has recently been posted on venuszine.com. Antonia is a pioneering female music journalist from the U.K., and was the first person ever to write biographies about both the New York Dolls and Johnny Thunders. The interview serves as an overview of her career as a music writer, and touches on the challenges she has faced over the years as a female trying to make her way in what was (and to an extent, still is) considered the  boys' club of rock journalism. It also focuses quite a bit on her most recent book,  The Prettiest Star-Whatever Happened To Brett Smiley? The book is both a memoir of her life and a biography of musician Brett Smiley. Antonia's tale of how her Glam Rock heroes inspired her writing and her life, is interwoven with the story of how Smiley should have been a Glam legend like David Bowie and Marc Bolan, but fate got in the way and stopped it from happening for him. He recorded a fantastic album in 1974 which remained unreleased until 2003. Antonia helped to make the album's release happen, and that is how their lives went from paralleling each others to intersecting. 

 

If you would like to see my Antonia interview, go here:

http://venuszine.com/stories/arts_reads/3901

 

Feedback on my writing is much loved and appreciated!

 

I am also working on an article about Cheap Perfume, who were one of the first all-female Punk bands to play at CBGB back in the '70s, and who have recently reunited, have begun playing shows again, and are recording new material. I will be sure to post more information about that article once it is published. Thanks!

 

Sincerely,

Bess Korey