A history of the Riot Grrrl

It can be differcult to write a history piece on a revolution of music. Especially when you were too young to take part, and or it was before you time. But if you love it enough, re-live it enough, dance, sing and listen to it enough, the words come easy and the article is written.

And so it was, for me, i wrote a piece for the spring 2012 issue of Glitterball Magazine (read it here). The article is a brief history of the Rot Grrrl movement that kicked off life in the late 80's and still rocks the grounds of every music venue worldwide. It was a girl punk movement that grew from the dying 70's punk scene, starting in Washington by word of mouth and nothing else the power of girl bands grew across the country, over the sea, around our sweet countrysides and up into our cities; and increased over the world.

This is a sneak of what i have written - but to read the full article please check out Glitterball Magazine

So i have just finished writing an article for the next issue of QUEENS on the book 'Drugs are nice' by Lisa Crystal caver. and it has got me excited all of a sudden im searching all ove the internetanything i can on Lisa CC and her genius band Suckdog. you can now by the album off itunes abd it lets you have a quick 10 second listen of each track, but its shit beacuse what can you tell from the the first 10 secs! not a fucking lot! plus also i like having cd's im not with all this mp3/itunes/ipod thing i like to have the real deal. and also simply beacuse i dont trust technology if my laptop decided it didnt want to work anymore (which is more than likely) where will all my music go! and how do i get it back........ at least in a house fire or something i will have the chance to grab things i want to save before i make for a run for it. technology has it's own mind and it freaks me out a bit. ever seen that film with will smith and the robots?? one day, one day