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Very proud to announce Main Stage, a new initiative between The Independent x Music Venue Trust to support grassroots music venues independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

hiyaaaa, excited to say today is my first day as culture & lifestyle reporter The Independent 🤠 You can get me on [email protected]

On Baby Reindeer and how true crime has rotted all of our brains graziadaily.co.uk/life/tv-and-fi…

Beautiful writing by Helen Coffey on a particular kind of grief independent.co.uk/life-style/tay…

Wild, brilliant interview with Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi by Mark Beaumont

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All's well that ends- oh

Tbf the weather today was 🌄🌧☀️🌪🌦🌅

Excellent as ever from Laura on the insult of the new Back to Black film theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

Thoughtful and insightful as ever from Louis Chilton independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

New festival The Recipe announces Jazmine Sullivan as headliner independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

SHE'S COVERED JOLENE

Same, still waiting to be paid for a cover story from August. Have repeatedly included late fee + interest, threatened small claims court, this week they replied saying 'We are sorry that we can’t provide any further information.  We are waiting for payment approval.' Very cool!

Playlist update with lots of good new bits, incl Kacey Musgraves' gorgeous new record ('Cardinal' on a loop at the moment), Mitski, Symonne, Rapsody, Divorce,
Brògeal (new find), English Teacher open.spotify.com/playlist/4yp4e…

We ride at dawn

Massive respect to Chloe Little from Wings of Desire for arranging this piece with Roisin O'Connor and Independent Music / Independent Arts spotlighting the experiences of misogyny that are still happening in the music industry.

It's an important, affecting read.

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Johnny is being a rotter: I wrote something about John Lydon's immigration remarks independent.co.uk/voices/john-ly…

Happy International Women's Day,

Love,
Women in the music industry

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