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

[mike AT appelstein.com]

Don't have it, but here's a slightly off-track question: Did Jam Today  
ever release anything?  I think most of us know the band through the  
Vicky Aspinall/Raincoats connection - they mentioned it in interviews  
- but I'm not aware of any recordings.

- mike



Quoting Deborah M Withers <mail AT debi-rah.net>:

> Hello,
>
> I am working on an archive of UK Women's Liberation/ grassroots  
> feminist music with Frankie Green who was in the band Jam Today.
>
> We are currently assembling a mass of information and our aim is to  
> map a massively undocumented area of women's musical creativity and  
> resistance. We hope the archive, which at present is hosted on a  
> blog, will go live around May 2011.
>
> I am writing to ask if anyone on this list has a copy of the  
> compilation album 'Making Waves' which was released on Girlfriend  
> Records in 1981.
>
> The track listing is here:
>
> 1 Belles – You Told Me a Lie  2 Amy & The Angels – I Hate Being in  
> Love  3 Ministry of Marriage – Twin  4 Tango Twins – Life Support  5  
> Nancy Boys – So Easy  6 Sisterhood of Spit – Hold Tight  7 Gymslips  
> – Midnight City  8 Mistakes – Romance  9 Androids of Mu – Bored  
> Housewives  10 Guest Stars – Sometimes the Blues is Right  11 Real  
> Insects – In the Ruins of Your Body  12 Rock Goddess – Make My Night
>
> It contains many of the bands that are in the archive, and the songs  
> here are often some of the only ones the bands recorded. At present  
> we only have a copy of Amy & the ANgels' 'I hate being in love' but  
> it would be great to have a copy of the album. We have a scan of the  
> album cover, and reviews of it from Spare Rib. Its hugely  
> frustrating to not hear the music. I also appreciate there are  
> copyright issues at putting them on the web, and we wouldn't do this  
> without the prior consent of artists, but having the actual music  
> would be a great starting point.
>
> If anyone can help, I'd love to hear from you,
>
> thanks for reading
>
> deborah
>
> www.debi-rah.net
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