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I have 1 x Sleater Kinney ticket for sale (as I won't be here to go to it - sob). €30 (face value. No pesky charges). PM me if interested.

Don't suppose anyone has a ticket for tomorrow that they're looking to offload?? * hopeful * Or, failing that, one that they'd sell for face value without all ticketmaster's extra charges (I begrudge that extra €6).

My parents' record collection was beyond brutal. One Beach Boys album, lots of dodgy C&W and some stuff by a Portuguese Eurovision winner. Also a load of Ken Dodd albums, although my mother swears blind these belonged to my aunt. My mother also claims she was too young to be into the Beatles...

Wasn't there a TYM reunion in the Lord Edward a couple of years ago? Or were we all just co-incidentally drinking there at the same time? 'Life Upstream' was a great album. Kind of depressing to think it was 10 years ago....<shuffles off using zimmerframe>

That's it exactly! I was hugely inspired by the attitude of Riot Grrrl too, and although I wouldn't be mad into some of the music now, there are a few songs I still love (mostly by Bikini Kill). Rightly or wrongly, I just see it as something specific to a time and place - kind of like grunge I...

WTF? Where do you get this shit from? My point in a nutshell is that while showcases are all well and good, real change is more likely to come from the efforts of the women who are playing gigs week in, week out (and that doesn't include me as I don't play anymore) and from expanding an activist...

While I vaguely see where you're coming from, I don't agree. I also object to your assumption of any sort of 'mentality' on my part just because I would rather be in a band than a 'girl band'. I know all too well why that term was used but I feel like we have passed the point where embracing...

Actually I remember that the idea of ladyfest had its fair share of critics on thumped at the time. It ended up being a really cool weekend and maybe that's why it seems in retrospect that everyone was supportive of it at the time, but that was definitely not the case.

As a member of the female persuasion who used to be in a band I'm maybe not best placed to answer the question as to why more girls aren't in bands, but a couple of things came to mind while reading this thread. I've played a few 'female band showcases'/ladyfest over the years, and although at...

Just keep some physostigmine on you at all times and you'll be grand.

Yeah this thread is making me think I should take down my christmas tree.

;)

Irish Hipster fail

First one I attended was also the first one I played...Ballroom 6(66) .|..| Think I've probably been to most of them but not all...great times *sniffle* Vive le Ballroom!!

They have them in TK Maxx. I don't know how much they cost but that place is generally a bit cheaper than yer usual shops.