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

[ruth novaczek <nova15 AT btinternet.com>]

hi
i was one of the guitarists in real insects, i was called kate then,  
and i also have a copy of the vinyl album, but you know chuck warner  
has been doing stuff with making waves with his messthetics label?  
he's on this list
best,
ruth
On 10 Feb 2011, at 20:50, Deborah M Withers wrote:

> 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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>
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