3rd, ruth miller is back on stage at the age of 61, appearing with her punk band, the marino said we couldn't do it by the way, did and she wants more women to do it. no matter what their age, even if they've never played an instrument before, she says it's high time for women to conquer the stage. the route, the punk mom found that the unglamorous music project, the gig featuring all 16 bands, is a week away. many here have only begun to play an instrument recently. sophie

helped organize the event on brand new stuff done in my car. i've got another call and it's printing just on the call. okay, it'll close out. but john, it's going to bring us along and i'm bringing back a problem. i think in the beginning i knew that are all loads of bar is to why women to get up on stage enjoying bands and the battery is all huge. so whether that's is how big an instrument having it, i'm to find knowing how it works, taking time to learn things, and people to help you knowing who to go to knowing what to do. and so the young drummers project was about remove all the battery is i didn't realize how much was in the. busy even something as simple as sound checking, like developing really good sound check technique and knowing when to stop playing so that you can listen to the rest of your band. having the confidence to say actually can i get that more of like a time? and the more it says, the rest of the day belongs to ruth's daughter, izzy,

who has moved out of her mother's place. after spending decades, having a career teaching primary school and raising our children, ruth is retired. as a pensioner, she suddenly finds herself having time on her hands. i think society says, well, if you're illuminated the 50 you do so ring, you make knots, quilts un a, you know, you go out to the gym involved and drink gin with your friends or you go around. an ancient house is and look who's on teaque's and all you do yoga and keep fixed till you get a job. joking this says and things that they feel over 50. they all good help ease those conclusions. but the never seem to be a healthy way. you would learn the musical instrument and play together with people . and that's exactly what ruth. she found in the band, the reno,

a genuine women's punk fan. the she played in lots of bands when she was young. she found that the bands po and the roots refrigerator and towards her, then she became a mother and punk rock to go. she hasn't missed it until now. everybody thinks this is meant to lock up this fantastic. i did, but it doesn't happen like that is something that's involved date. is that a period of time if you're not so a so if i write some really simple songs because you can write songs in the public tradition of um, just one cool, very simple bait on teach. some women who've never played before. how to play one

string on the base, or just at the very successful and be till new drugs you could make it. so it took an interesting and a much enjoy. the roots workshops and online courses have drawn in more and more women thing. here it is a, a good the all the unglamorous music project has found a home that stay free music studios a former soc factory that now when cell rehearsal rooms to bands, by the hour, mental load is doing its dress rehearsal. chloe lou net and libby had been playing together for just a few months and are having trouble with the equipment. thank goodness,

there's chrissy. she lives around the corner and is a long time member of the project. and she and sophie, our roots, trusted assistance. proceed dials and the sound. everything should feel just like it will let the concert on sunday. i suggest yes, definitely definitely experience a whole mixture of different things because as i mean off i can mark propagation so this is the one so it's kinda cool. christy has been playing music all her life chrissy has been playing music all her life. she barely survived the serious accident when she was 13. her

face and body were badly burned. i suppose news, it was kind of my escape from day to day reality because my visible difference. i thought bleeds a lot when i was at school. so music was kind of my go to place to feel better when i'm thinking about and start my to, you know, and i've had that experience a few times. some people, when i've signed in bands years ago, they've come up and they're like, wow, you know how to really bad day, but just listening to saying made me feel really, really good and thank you for that or not. if we go down here, is it the rehearsal rooms? oh, the rehearsal rooms has got different colors to them. and the 1st one is the of interim . and not. and also we have all the post is of everything that's happening. the unglamorous projects, as we saw it here. each band progressed as it went from room to room,

orange green, blue until it finished in the black room. the one with the real stage, lester 16 female punk fans all got their start here with root. this is the library, this is where it all saw its size. you can say we got seats around the size and the old ladies come in, he a verse. teaches has a chat with everybody. finds out what everybody, what instruments they can play, what instruments they like to learn to play. and the old starts here in the library . and this is beginning of one of all songs with real women. and why room? we play in a bad. cuz we want to been serious so much to get to a we are women in why room the

big concert is just 5 days away. and there's been a surprise development nodding gums. legendary club rough trade has contacted christie asking whether her band virginia as wolves could play a gig their band member. deena can hardly believe it or 2 boys are less impressed. it's crazy of you taurus aunty lucy, she still hives 2 weeks ago. the a name is huge, bombs must be fun. this is just right. it's just this moment where this is taken. as you think what we saw last, john, you raise about february. we so to do way to get on that stage was not an out of body experience. was not sweet rush. it was pretty, i've done little things at primary school high school. i gone into

a recall on the stage and, but this is just like something, you know, i've come from really, you know, you have children. i know women will say there's no be no human to be says any different hot, you know, just by it is the, do you lose your identity up to you? they become mom. you don't have a name anymore. you don't know the name your moments between your serving so and obviously exactly the same. yeah. not with my kids really. oh, you know, i had no name. i had no tough to read the no managers to carve a few hours out of a week for band practice at a concert. her ex husband isn't always pleased when asked me to take the kids. i asked him 6 days or 2 weeks. but if i want to do something, we'd have to do that. all i don't remember, i have to be stuck at home. i'm sorry, i didn't realize i was in a prison or in my own house. i'm not upset many notice from that he's not locked.

sanderson, lester is proud to be known at the capital of female punk bands, thanks to the unglamorous music project. the city's image in britain is a great. it's set to be run down and poor. in 2020 lester officials impose the country longest coded locked down on the city. tubs and restaurants remain shuttered for 15 months. the nothing they have come about because of cove it and i think because this is the last that there was a take sheila and about cove. it then drew on no blind does that women have the lock down was very hard on single mother's like dina. there was no child care for months and as a teacher, she had to run online classes from home. she's happy her boys can once again go

next door to dina's mother in the afternoon. sweet. sweet, sweet. sweet, sweet. and i wanted to talk it out. what was the 1st time you've had the stories? right? come on, then i said, if it will make me have a dream after either way for break time break time, what do you do? the concert and nodding them is this evening. dean is ex, we'll come by soon to pick up the kids. there's only

a little time for dina to arrest. we. it's without the bottom stuff. i think i'd be so unhappy i'd struggle it brings me so much joy and bridges so choppy, this crazy so many friends and my social life, you know, they were my best friends now and a as a single parent, a very lonely people that will know you anymore, you know, they the fine and they're around when the babies a little. but you know, the last, yes, since virginia, as wells i found the tripe, i found the community of women, rough afraid and nodding them as a legendary club. virginia, as well as are joined by 2 other bands from the unglamorous collective the it's time to open the doors, then take the stage,

but there is bad news. okay, well good evening everybody, and welcome to rough trade notes again, how we signing the math. my name's sophie, i'm one of the 3 bands playing tonight. the crisis we're going to kick things off imminently. i'm just gonna say a couple of quick quotes at the beginning on behalf of our glorious found a brief miller, who uh who unfortunately, is poorly today isn't going to be able to join us. he's the old working to organizing this and in fact, organizing the entire pro program and projects. but unfortunately she comp joined us tonight. the

thank you very much. everybody with a wonderful, lovely audience. thank you for supporting us. go get a drink and then come back into the little bit for our next wonderful bands tonight . a concert booth out punk mountain room in a different city in front of a different crowd. the

. 2 the we began, you saw the album please body out just by a we the the, you know, say well you in every the album, there it is, the me, you oh my god, i think he has blown up to something incredible. something the and i mean the idea

that roots hot is blown up to a point where she never envisage this. we know the end business days. so i think he's probably gonna grab some more as well. i definitely believe it's going to, going to move. so yeah, we're here to take her to the whoa. the for the challenges, the music industry, industries out there, this great play is great. so ride to spite musician. all i'm doing is gray. he again with a very, very small. this is possible, isn't it? this is, this is a form of music created by a different group of people who don't normally make music on. it is violet. i'm the songs off codes this impulse. they're very good and that's what shocked me. i think

when i started how good songs all the concert is tomorrow. ruth has organized the drum workshop with a professional drama has yes, this big chunk of the building has agreed to do a workshop. hateful women who've been taking drugs for a while. um, it's not a mixture of people to be doing lessons with the lady who knows the basics, but maybe help them place and but also to be played in bands with no don't. they took the basics. so i'm not very 1st day when you came to the numbers workshop and i just said, oh, he's the sticks. got boom, boom, boom. i didn't give them the information about how to help the stick. so and the, it's not so welcome me. alex said, thanks very much. me for inviting me to to come on today. um. okay, so that's just something shaken,

super simple. absolutely. really. doesn't matter what it is of the women drummers are rare. there are few role models. ok. quite random. close to that . i mean, you guys have probably done a lot of this already. i mean, you're only in bonds, so you will rehearsing. definitely. you will probably gigs. so anyone here has not played live yet. ok, thanks to the unglamorous music project. more and more women are becoming lead students, but getting really relaxed and let the stick do the uh yeah, make, make it smooth with the least amount of time to cumbersome action from the home. okay, so i can see a lot of what we would refer to was the french temp in the message full of hardware you put in. that's the payback time for it. it's

a really good way to think of it because no matter how stressful words you might be about the performance, you know, that has to the task to be, to put in gentlemen at the end of it. and that, that's not, that's not, not, that's what the performance is. so i don't get them a good time. i'm really interested to see over the coming weeks, months and years. how, how those individual musicians then develop, you know, where does it go from there? what, what kind of places are they going to does? does the young glamorous project become? is there a sound this inherent with it, for instance, you know, does that become a certain genre tag, you know, particular sound a way of working? or is, does it just become a kind of a, a, a place for female musicians to grow and then disperse and do other things when she never typically will happen? so it's just really excellent in the whole things just like this. i'm so quickly, you know,

this is just lovely to see if large the next morning there was a meeting at the fire bug pub hosting the big concert, the drums, amps, cables instruments. ruth packed the cars this morning. now it's time to unload. but where to put everything what's in it? i know what race wants today. so i went to should be here on minute just yeah. she's going to wait and wait and find out. yeah. yeah. i think so should i find somebody to come the office is going to be too heavy samantha. oh yeah.

so it with them. so it was i sorry, basically. now we scroll out. it's all set to go and have a chat with them. time for a sound check to the to change the

route spans to the group that kicked off everything 2 years ago takes center stage the

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