LISTEN: GIHE on Soho Radio with Julia-Sophie (19.08.24)

Tash and Kate were back on Soho Radio playing loads of new music from some of their favourite female, non-binary and LGBTQIA+ artists. Mari offered some of her “musical musings” too. They spoke about having a brat summer, Tash’s hectic holiday schedule and Kate’s excitement for Gazelle Twin’s upcoming appearance at Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival in September.

Kate also caught up with Anglo-French electronic artist and GIHE fave Julia-Sophie to talk about her debut album, forgive too slow. Released via Ba Da Bing Records at the end of July, Julia spoke earnestly about the challenges she faced when creating the record and the joy she felt when Sharon Van Etten reached out via Instagram to say that she had been listening to it.

Artists featured on the eclectic playlist included Problem Patterns, Lipsticism, Midwife, Berries, HUSK, Ideal Host, Maria Uzor, Moonchild Sanelly, Hello Mary and more.

Listen back to the show below:


 

We’ll be back on Soho Radio on Monday 16th September from 12-2pm
 Make sure you tune in via www.sohoradiolondon.com

Tracklist
FKA Twigs – Two Weeks
Charli xcx – Club Classics
Lipsticism – Free
Clinic Stars – Only Hinting
Maria Uzor – What You Need
Moonchild Sanelly, Self Esteem – Big Man
Sequela – Zavander
Hello Mary – 0%
Problem Patterns – I Think You Should Leave
Ms Ray – Signs
Baby Cool – The Sea
Ideal Host – Dust Collector
Nina Eba – 13
Julia-Sophie – Wishful Thinking
**Interview with Julia-Sophie**
Midwife – Rock N Roll Never Forgets
Planningtorock – Smalltown Boy
Gazelle Twin – A Door Opens (Live)
Berries – Watching Wax
Tex – Sound of You
Folk Bitch Trio – Analogue
Um, Jennifer? – Went On T
Husk – Open Waters
Desperate Journalist – Afraid
Cherry Blur – Cool About It
Portishead – Glory Box

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LIVE: Deer Shed Festival 2024 – A Child’s View

In addition to all the fantastic music that North Yorkshire’s Deer Shed treats us to, the festival also prides itself on its family friendly focus and array of activities on offer for children to enjoy. To get full insight into what the festival experience might be like for under 5s, we thought it only right to ask our very own next generation GIHE gal Orla her own thoughts about spending Saturday at Deer Shed a few weeks’ back..

John McGovern has put to pen what Orla told us, with highlights including face-painting, big caterpillars and Baba Ali…

Mama and Daddy had told me we were going to a festival. I had done a festival day at nursery and I had played guitar, but we had to go in the car to this one. When we got out of the car I had nearly been asleep, but I could hear music from the car park, and there were lots of trees. I got into my cart and Daddy asked: “How are you feeling?” and I said: “GOOD!”. And when he asked “What are you looking forward to doing?”, I said “Going in!”

I got a special wristband – Mama said I had to keep it on the whole time. I could see hundreds of tents when we walked in, and lots of children but some were older than me (I’m three). Daddy bought me some ear defenders and I chose red ones. Then Mama said it was lunchtime, and we didn’t know what to get because there was so many places. But I like golden cheese and chips, so we got that. Daddy says ‘golden cheese’ is actually called halloumi…

We were on our way to the special bit for kids, but Mama said we should also look in the shops, and someone was doing face painting. Last time I got my face painted I chose Bluey, but this time I wanted rainbows to match my dress. I felt really magical because the lady put big sparkly glitter on my face. Then we got to a thing Daddy called ‘Feral Farm’ – it was full of straw. Big kids were building straw in piles and other kids were sliding on it. I threw straw on Daddy and put straw in his shoes – that was my favourite bit. I didn’t want to leave, but Daddy said there was other things to see.

There was a big playground built of wood and kids with tools smashing it, and a field with kids playing football, and a mud kitchen. But I wanted to play in sand; I took my wellies and socks off and stood on the sand, and other girls did too. We found a worm and built him a house. Mama said there was soft play, so we went in the tent to look – I ran up and down and had to balance on it. Then I rode on a big caterpillar. In there, Daddy asked me questions – “what’s your favourite thing about the festival?”, I said “Kids”.

There was a lot of things that we looked at too – a tent with kids doing experiments, and a clown in a big tent. I wish we had more time, but Daddy said we should go and see at least one band. We rolled in my cart back towards the big stage and it started to rain. But no-one seemed sad about the rain. They went into a tent with a big long table and started to dance to some music – Daddy said it was where you could get silly juice, but I’m not allowed to have any yet… All the grown ups and the kids were happy, even when it rained.

We went up a hill near a big wheel that people were riding on and Daddy said “There’s Mari!”. And a lady with white hair like Mama, and a man with a big beard were there (he was Uncle Paul). I showed Paul my Miffy bag and then I ran into a big tent. Me and Daddy played tig, and Daddy said there would be a band on the stage soon, and people started coming in. Daddy asked whether I wanted to hear quiet music or loud music, and I said “Loud!” We stood far back but Daddy put me on his shoulders so I could see. Two boys came out; one played guitar and one sang. It was VERY LOUD like I wanted, and I had my red ear defenders on. It was the best. I wanted Daddy to put me on the ground so I could dance, and my wellies lighted up and then Mama held me, and I danced and danced and danced. And was smiling the whole time. The boys playing guitar and singing were called Baba Ali, and they are my favourite band.

Daddy said we had to go after that because it would be bedtime when we got home. But I got a green t-shirt so I could show people I had been to Deer Shed. When I saw the tents again on the way to the car, I told Daddy that I wanted a tent for next year at the festival. I fell asleep in the car going home and had dreams about music and dancing and straw. I like thinking about the festival and Baba Ali, and I want to go again when I am bigger.

Massive thanks to Orla for telling us about her day at Deer Shed this year – it sounds like she had a wonderful time, and she would definitely recommend it to other children!

You can read our ‘grown up’ reviews of days one and two at Deer Shed a few weeks’ back, with highlights including Los Bitchos, The Go! Team, Picture Parlour and Liz Lawrence. And keep your eyes peeled for some words and photos of Sunday at the festival, coming very soon!

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GUIDE & PLAYLIST: Supersonic Festival 2024

EVENT: Supersonic Festival

WHERE: Digbeth, Birmingham, UK (O2 Institute & XOYO)

WHEN: 30th August – 1st September 2024

TICKET INFO:
Weekend ticket: £170 / Day tickets & 2 Day tickets: £40-£110

Full info about other ticket options available here

GENERAL INFO:
Supersonic Festival returns with another eclectic and exciting programme of alternative music and events for their 2024 line-up! Described as “championing experimental and adventurous music and creating an inclusive and joyful space where all are welcome,” the team have organised another three days of arts and intrigue for curious festival-goers to immerse themselves in.

DJ SETS & EXCITING EXTRAS

Alongside the music line-up (which you can read more about below), Supersonic have a vast selection of extracurricular activities to get involved in. There will be DJ takeovers all weekend, featuring actress and activist Maxine Peake, Boss Morris (a group of female creatives & musicians who share a progressive vision of morris dancing), Poor Creature, Hesska and Nyahh Records. On Saturday night, there will also be a huge gothic camp queer party courtesy of Homobloc x Fvck Pigs.

BBC 6Music presenter Stuart Maconie will return to host the iconic Freak Zone pub quiz, and there will be an ‘In Conversation’ event with two icons: Maxine Peake will be speaking with performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti about her life and art on 31st August.

WORKSHOPS

FYI: Entry to most of these workshops is included in the Supersonic Festival ticket – a festival ticket for the relevant day (or the full weekend) is required

On Saturday 31st August, Do.om Yoga will return to the festival for a “Cosmic Resonance” meditation workshop (tickets here). Decolonise Fest (a collective of DIY punx of colour) will also be back hosting a “Decolonising Publishing Through Zine Making” workshop on the XOYO rooftop. You can also join Birmingham-based creative Maisie Violet Rees at her drop-in “Upcycled Objects” workshop, where she will assist you in creating your own unique upcycled objects.

On Sunday 1st September, experimental folk artist Debbie Armour (Burd Ellen) will be leading the “Ghost Songs – Exploring Revenant Ballads” workshop. Attendees will learn about Revenant Ballads – “manifestations of grief occupying a third space — an ambiguous zone between this life and what is beyond.” This event it currently at capacity, but you can sign up for the waiting list here. You can also try Transfer Printing with Shelanu, which translates as ‘belonging to us’. They are a collective of migrant and refugee women working with Craftspace to develop craft and social skills, and you can join them in making your own Supersonic key ring or pendant to take home with you.

LINE UP & RECOMMENDATIONS

As always, there are so many excellent bands and artists on the Supersonic line-up that it’s hard to pick favourites. But, at Get In Her Ears, we focus on female, non-binary and LGBTQ+ talent, so we’re putting the spotlight on sets from eclectic artists like Brìghde Chaimbeul, Dame Area, Daisy Rickman, Jacken Elswyth, Mary Lattimore, MC YALLAH & DEBMASTER, The Body & Dis Fig and Womb x Water.

You can listen to their work on our accompanying Spotify Playlist at the end of this feature. We also have a more fleshed out list of artist recommendations below…

GAZELLE TWIN

Having already witnessed the spine-tingling sensation of Elizabeth Bernholz aka Gazelle Twin’s live interpretation of her latest album Black Dog at Bush Hall in London, we can’t wait to relive it all again on Friday night at Supersonic. The electronic artist’s fourth record is an exquisitely raw, truly haunting piece of art, on which Bernholz reflects on her experiences with the paranormal, postpartum depression and the powerful fears and inner forces that direct us through life. We spoke to the artist about her anticipations for this year’s festival and much more in a recent interview, which you can read in full here.

TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD

Tristwch y Fenywod – which translates as “The Sadness Of Women” – are a Welsh-language gothic rock power-coven. Conjured from the experimental underground of Leeds, the collective take inspiration for their songs from bog bodies, flickering landscapes and queer enchantment. Formed of Gwretsien Ferch Lisbeth (Guttersnipe, Petronn Sphene), Leila Lygad (Hawthonn) and Sidni Sarffwraig (Slaylor Moon, The Courtneys), their music has been described as the “rediscovered unholy grail of edgy, atmospheric, occult feminist goth.” The dual-zither which leads their music is Gwretsien’s innovation, giving them a unique Celtic darkwave sound. Their first record will be released this summer by Night School Records. Catch them at the festival on Friday.

GROVE PRESENTS: TOYA DELAZY & TALIABlE

Returning to Supersonic festival for the second time, electronic artist & producer Grove will be presenting their new collaborative project featuring Toya Delazy and TaliaBle. Fascinated by each artist’s ability to blend genres like afrorave, Hip Hop and punk, Grove shares their expectations for the eclectic set:

“Toya Delazy and TaliaBle are two of the most incendiary, powerful and badass live performers I’ve ever seen, so to host them head to head for a soundclash at Supersonic is a dream. Both are pioneers in fusing genres, with Toya’s statement ‘afrorave’ combining their Zulu roots with heavy rave music, to TaliaBle’s punk-drenched hip-hop setting rooms into a frenzy. If my past experiences with these two is anything to go by, this SOUNDCLASH is going to be heavy, energetic and WILD. I feel Supersonic Festival is the perfect place for this big, bad extravaganza. It’s one of the UK’s best melting pots of sonic wizardry, with the best audience to match.” The performance will take place on Friday.

EMMA RUTH RUNDLE

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of her first official album, Some Heavy Ocean, American songwriter and visual artist Emma Ruth Rundle will be performing the record in full on Saturday night. Described as “a collection of impassioned, cathartic songs, exorcising the ghosts of one of life’s dark detours,” we’re looking forward to hearing the artist’s melancholic sounds live for the very first time.

ØXN

ØXN are an experimental Irish super-group consisting of Percolator’s John ‘Spud’ Murphy and Eleanor Myler, Lankum’s Radie Peat and multi-instrumentalist Katie Kim. The first signing to Ireland’s iconic label Claddagh Records in 18 years, ØXN dig deep into the earth and excavate tales of love, loss, longing, revenge and ritual. Blending these traditional folk elements with their eclectic sonic textures means that their set on Sunday is not one to be missed.

F*CHOIR

F*Choir are firm favourites here at Get In Her Ears. They are a queer, all-genders community choir led by composer and multidisciplinary artist Jenny Moore. Collectively, they use their voices to sing songs about gender, sexuality, freedom and rage, rejecting the use of traditional sheet music and gendered voice parts. We have witnessed the raw joy and power of their live performances many times, and we recommend you do the same on Friday evening.

MATANA ROBERTS

Critically acclaimed avant-jazz practitioner Matana Roberts will be bringing their radical “panoramic sound quilting” to Supersonic on Sunday. Roberts creates a “sound art tapestry” from a mixture of field recordings, loop & effects pedals, saxophone sounds and spoken word recitations. On their most recent offering from their Coin Coin project, Roberts creates an “adventurous and socially engaged definition of what jazz can mean today, maintaining a deep and substantive engagement with narrative, history, community, and political expression within sonic structures.”

UPCHUCK

Festival-goers will be able to immerse themselves in Atlanta five-piece Upchuck’s boisterous blend of punk, psych and hardcore noise on Saturday. Formed from connections made in skateboarding, construction, and teenage delinquency, the band offer their listeners the opportunity to transcend the chaos of everyday existence by swirling around in the pit, sweating the stress out together.

THE NONE

Another experimental super-group here! With Birmingham and Supersonic Recordings’ Kaila Whyte (Blue Ruth, Youth Man) on vocals, Gordon Moakes on bass (Bloc Party, Young Legionnaire), Jim Beck (Cassels) on guitar and drummer Chris Francombe (Frauds), THE NONE are a live force to be reckoned with. They formed at the start of 2023 and bonded over hours in the rehearsal room together, making noise and discussing shared obsessions. The elusive nature of their name reflects the band’s creative approach; ego-less experimentation and open collaboration.

 

MELT-BANANA

Tokyo grindcore icons Melt-Banana will be pulverzing festival-goers ear drums on Friday night. Since they formed in 1992, the band have released numerous albums, toured worldwide with bands like Melvins and Napalm Death, and won high profile fans in Steve Albini, Kurt Cobain and Lou Reed. Their relentless, unclassified heavy sound will make for a manic and unique live experience.

MODIFIED YOUTH

This DIY two-piece from Shropshire know how to pack a punk with their grunge and Riot Grrrl inspired sounds. Armed with a drum set and a guitar, they deliver politically-charged, gritty anthems fuelled by power chords and pure DIY enthusiasm. Catch them at the festival on Saturday.

For more information visit Supersonic Festival’s official website

Check out our Supersonic Playlist below, featuring some of the female, non-binary and LGBTQ+ talent playing the festival this year!

 

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PREVIEW: All Points East 2024

Annual East London festival All Points East is set to return to Victoria Park over the next two weekends, offering an array of incredible live music spanning multiple genres. Having enjoyed all the good vibes and fantastic music when we were lucky enough to catch Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Amyl and the Sniffers, Angel Olsen and more there last year, we’re super excited about some of the awesome line-ups they have in store for us this year.

Kicking off this Friday 16th August with the captivating R&B of Nigerian artist Tems supporting Kaytranada, there’s a great range of female and non-binary artists playing the festival this year; from the smouldering raw emotion of faves Mitski and Ethel Cain this coming weekend, to the groundbreaking force of queer icons Gossip and riot grrrl pioneers Sleater-Kinney next Sunday 25th August.

Whilst we’re obviously mega fans of bands like The Postal Service and Deathcab For Cutie, in true GIHE style we want to highlight some of the non-male artists that we’re particularly looking forward to – so, we’ve put together a little playlist of a few of our faves who’ll be playing. Have a listen, and nab a ticket to one of the days now.

Photo Credit: Chris Hornbecker

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