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  • From: lsmith <yelmo2000 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Typical Girls <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [TypicalGirls] Brief report back
  • Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:28:20 +0000 (UTC)

I love this - "...it was obvious that I wasn't alone in the world and a total freak".
I would love to hear more about your "current work" Dina!!!
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I've been meaning to write about seeing Paloma McLardy talk in Cambridge a few months ago. Short version - she was wonderful. Very open, positive, warm, and VERY approachable. I felt like she would answer any questions.
It was a small venue, put packed.
She talked about not liking to follow trends, and being engaged in religious groups, but that now she follows her "own personal jesus" (that _expression_ finally made sense to me). There was more to this, but I can't remember it now.

She talked about how growing up in Spain and how her family talked and argued about everything, often heatedly, but in a positive way. Her daughter was in the audience, and she talked about being surprised as a kid when she went to friends houses and they didn't have any instruments!

For those that don't know, she has an active Facebook page going.
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Someone on this list recommended a few bands recently. Thanks to that, I took the opportunity to go see Shopping. There were fun, upbeat, very tight, and tried to get everyone dancing - in Boston! As they say, bless their hearts. :-)

- Lani


On Monday, October 15, 2018, 9:43:30 AM EDT, Dina Hornreich <dina.hornreich AT gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, the WoR book puts the TG stuff in the greater context which to me was important even if it is not just the rock context (like it ever was?). There are books that focus specifically on the TG stuff (Sam Knee's Untypical Girls, Helen's Lost Women of Rock). There have also been comps like Typical Girls (Emotional Response) and Subliminal Girls which seem to carry on the spirit. I also like (to use Mike Appelstein's term from a post back in 1999 when I started TG) the idea of Torchbearers like Big Joanie -- a member of which band wrote entries for the book. It's always been an important piece of something bigger. In my current work, I often talk about how when I saw Poly on the cover of Germ Free Adolescents how that was the first time I saw a woman on an album cover that I could identify with and then when I heard the music....it was obvious that I wasn't alone in the world and a total freak. Anyway...Happy Monday!

Dina

On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 8:48 PM Judy Sisneros via TypicalGirls <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
I was at the Book Soup reading in West Hollywood last Thursday night. Besides Evelyn, readers included Lucretia Tye Jasmine and Allison Wolfe who both contributed chapters to the book. They were very good, however the artists included go beyond the typical girls world, even rock world. Seems like it should have been titled “Women in Pop and Rock”. 

J. SIsneros
213-413-4113

On Oct 14, 2018, at 7:16 PM, Dina Hornreich <dina.hornreich AT gmail.com> wrote:

You got it, Joly! Pulse of TG is still going.... 

On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 8:00 PM Joly MacFie <joly AT punkcast.com> wrote:

> Evelyn McDonnell's new book


Thanks for the heads up, Dina! TG lives!



On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 9:15 PM Dina Hornreich <dina.hornreich AT gmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks,

More Ut reissues on the way (see below). Also, Evelyn McDonnell's new book does a good job reflecting on Ari's legacy in the intro. The book is highly recommended, so far.

Dina

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OUT RECORDS and Forte Music Distribution Announce the Next UT Release in the Remastered Reissue Series of UT’s back catalog:

EARLY LIVE LIFE will be released November 9, 2018 on LP, CD and digital download.

“There really was nothing like the storm and squall they summoned at their most powerful… Breathtaking and bold.” Early Live Life: No. 24 in “Rock’s 50 Most Extreme Albums,” Uncut Magazine, March 2018.

Early Live Life is a compilation of some of UT’s best live performances from 1979-1985, spanning their origins in New York City to their migration to London in late 1981. The CD also includes the addition of a 1981 gig at The Venue in London, originally released as the cassette Ut Live at The Venue in early 1982 and reissued on vinyl for Record Store Day in April 2018.

The UT reissue campaign began on November 17, 2017 with the release of the UT EP and the Confidential 12", on Vinyl, CD and Download. Upcoming reissues in 2019 include their studio albums Conviction, In Gut’s House and Griller.

http://www.utmusic.net
https://utmusic.bandcamp.com 
https://twitter.com/utmusicnow 
http://www.fortedistribution.co.uk/title.php?titleID=9880


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