Remembering all the fun me and Ruth/Vim had making the blogzine videos. Each song was written, recorded, and the video shot in about one take - 4 hours start to finish.
Blogzine 5 - It's All About Punk (and the other stuff that isn't Punk) youtu.be/dh9c7pysv5A?si… via YouTube

Last Monday, Ruth Miller died, aged just 61. She’s become well known recently for her amazing work on punkgirldiaries and Unglamorous Music - Leicester. 30 years ago, she was an equally amazing, unique songwriter with her band Po! Here’s a thread celebrating the great songs she wrote.

A message from Ruth Miller, 1988. Measure success not by wealth and fame but by love and art.

And the kind tributes from the people and lives touched by Ruth continue to flow. Thank you Julie Travis and thank you to everyone who has been sending their love ❤️

RIP Ruth Miller Ruth PO! the inspiration behind our band and so many others as part of Unglamorous Music - Leicester Ruth saw things in us that we never saw in ourselves. An amazing performer and exceptional person. Will forever be missing you 😢 ❤️

Ruth Miller, such vision, tenacity & innovation around getting more women of all ages playing music. A truly inspirational woman and friend, I have learnt so much from. Here she is so excited & proud that we were just out there doing it, playing from the garage. Thanks Ruth x 🎸

Awful news. Ruth was an absolute force of punk nature. I’m very grateful to have worked with punkgirldiaries and will celebrate her energy and soundtrack at the zine workshops and her brilliant writing for a long time. ❤️

So sad to learn of the passing of Ruth PO!. Ruth played an awesome #SheffPop23 set with the Verinos. She made a ton of brilliant music and inspired other women to do likewise through Unglamorous Music - Leicester.

Our love to Ruth's family, friends & bandmates. Thanks for the joy 💖

This one hurts. Just heard of the passing of Ruth Miller, aka Ruth PO! - such sad news. Had the pleasure of meeting her once at Indietracks, a sweet and warm person of strong opinions and principles. Farewell, Ruth, and thank you for the music.

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We are heartbroken tonight at the passing of Ruth Miller Ruth PO! an absolute legend who has touched and changed the lives of so many women Unglamorous Music - Leicester will be your legacy. Our love to all her family and friends Firebug Duffys Bar The Musician gr8MusicVenues

This is a post about Ruth’s band PO! debut LP released at the tail end of the 1980s. It has very quietly and very slowly become something of a cult classic #RuthMiller

The lives you changed and the legacy you have left will continue to rock the world.

This is the saddest, toughest tweet I’ve ever written. Today we lost the utterly brilliant Ruth PO! aka Vim Renault. Not just the cofounder of punkgirldiaries, but the kindest, funniest and most beautiful brilliant friend anyone could ever ask for.

We were delighted when Fraser Mann asked us to contribute to the book Venue Stories, and it’s just been published. Also featuring the razor sharp musings of the brilliant Julianne Regan

Great to see one of our faves Cat Myers playing drums with Texas at BBC Radio 2 Music in the Park in #Leicester !

This was a really cool exhibition in Leicester all summer - due to move to #Northampton and #Nottingham soon. All the expected punk stories but loads of original clothes, exhibits, scrapbooks, audio and film. The involvement of young women and POC was great #NLAPunk

Free cool garage #band #gig in #Nottingham today! You can see three fantastic all-women bands play at RoughTradeNTM to promote the new Unglamorous Sampler album on CD and gatefold vinyl. Register to be sure of a ticket, or just come along at 6pm. link.dice.fm/ac637f2e8c8e

First on stage around 6.30pm at RoughTradeNTM tonight is Velvet Crisis playing a free gig to promote the Unglamorous Sampler. They have some pretty cool T-shirts too. #political , sweary, intense and making the kind of #music that we need right now! unglamorous.bandcamp.com/track/scratch-…

These #bands are brilliant. come and see some of the new wave of all-women garage bands for #free in #Nottingham tonight. Velvet Crisis 6.30pm followed by Glitch Magnet then Virginias Wolves. Safe gig for women, fun for all!

Lovely Good Technology being played on BBC Radio 6 Music by lovely Steve Lamacq. gonna miss your daily show, Steve 😩 Red Guitars