the details going to be funded here reports here every weekend on d w. the it's a special concert. ruth miller is back on stage at age of 61, appearing with her punk band. the marino said we couldn't do it, but we 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

roof, the punk mom, founded the unglamorous music project. the giga 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 that in my car, i've got another call and it's been just on the call. okay. he'll coats out of it. janet, it's going to bring us along. i'm bringing up. 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 who is helping an instrument having it, i'm putting 5, knowing how it works, taking time to learn things,

and people's help kids knowing who to go to knowing what to do. and so the young drummers project was about removal. the battery is i didn't realize how much was in . busy even something as simple as sound checking, like developing a really good sound check technique and knowing when to start 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 in the morning to is the rest of the day belongs to roots, 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 find yourself having time on her hands. i think society says, well, if you're a woman over 50, you do so ring. you may not quilts you in the, you know, you go out to jen balls 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 fast where you go. jones. joking this, this and things that they feel over 50. they all good help ease those complements. but that never seemed 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.

things to this is meant to last. got this fantastic. i did, but it didn't happen like i'll shoot something that involve days that appears you've time if you thought. so i thought if i write some really simple songs, because you come write songs and not public tradition of me, um, just one cool, very simple bait on teach. some women who've never played before. how to play one string on a base or just a very successful. and they told me new drugs you could make it. so i took an interesting as a much enjoy the roots workshops and online courses have drawn in more and more women thing. here it is a, a good. the

the unglamorous music project has found a home that stay free music studios a former soc factory that now runs out rehearsal rooms to bands by the hour. mental load is doing its dress rehearsal. chloe lou matt and libby had been playing together for just a few months and are having trouble with the equipment. thank goodness, there is chrissy. she lives around the corner and is a long time member of the project. she and sophie our roots trusted assistance. and my, the online chrissy dials and the sound everything should feel just like it will let the concert on sunday the just yes, definitely definitely. is this

a whole mixture of different things because as i'm you know, off i can mark propagation. so this is the one so consider it's kinda cool. christy has been playing music all her life chrissy has been playing music all her life. she barely survived a 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, believes a lot when i was at school so use it was kind of my go to place to feel better when i'm thinking about and starting my to you know, and i've had that experience a few times, some people, when i've signed in bands years ago, uh 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? all the rehearsal rooms has got different colors to them. and the 1st one is the all being true. and not, and also we have all the post is have 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 bands all got there. start here with ruth. this is a 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 instrument they can play, what instruments they like to learn to play. and the old thoughts here in the library. and this is beginning of one of also we all women and why room. we play in a back because we want to been serious so much to get to a uh, we are with the 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 is wolves, could play a gig there. a band member? dina can hardly believe it or 2 boys are less impressed. it's crazy. i'll get taurus onto lucy, she. so the high,

2 weeks ago that there was huge fund, i'm mostly button. this is just right. it's just, it's mind where this is taking us using what we started last. john, you raise the boat february. we saw sitting way, getting on the stage was like an out of body experience was not sweet rush. it was printing. i've done little things at primary school to high school. i had 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 fires to 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 you serving. so, and obviously exactly the same. yeah. and i would like to let you know, i had no name,

i had no test and you were trying to get all right. do you know managers to carve a few hours out of a week for band practice and concert? her ex husband isn't always pleased when i take the kids. i asked him 6 days or 2 weeks. but if i want to do something, we don't 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 nanny's door lock. so anything 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 cove and locked down on the city. pubs and restaurants remain shuttered for 15 months news. nothing has come about because of cove it and i think because

it is that there was a picture of the island about cove. it then drew on no blankets that women have locked 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 about what was the 1st time she thought stories, right?

come on, then i said, if it were me, you 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 fun stuff. i think i'd be so unhappy i'd struggle. it brings me so much joy bridges so choppy, this crazy so many friends and my social life. you know, they were my best friends now. and they, as a single parent, a very low lay people that will know you any more, 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 tripe, i found the community of women, rough afraid and nodding them as a legendary club. virginia, as well, so 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 are we saying that's not? 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 quote, couple of quick quotes at the beginning on behalf of our glorious found a brief miller who who unfortunately is poorly today and 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 for the wonderful, lovely audience. thank you for supporting us. go get a drink and then come back into the a 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 didn't use the

album please body out on just by a wave the, the, you know, say well you, in every the album there it is, the 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 it's probably gonna go out of some more as well. i definitely believe it's going to going to move. so yeah, we're here to take part of the wow. the,

i'm not trying to tell in the music industry. industries out there. this great play is great. so ride to spite musician. all i'm doing is gray. she did 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 valid. i'm the songs off codes this impulse. they're very good and that's what show up to me. i think when i started how good songs all the concert is tomorrow. ruth is organized the drum workshop with a professional drum. okay, cool though it has. yes. this big chunk of the building has agreed to do a workshop, hateful women who've been taking drugs for awhile. and it's not that it's a mixture of people to be doing lessons with the lady who knows the basics, but maybe help them place in the fund. but also to be applied in bonds with no

knowledge of the basics. so on the very 1st day when you came to the unglamorous workshop and i just said, oh he's the sticks guy. boom, boom, boom. i didn't give them the information about how to help the stick so any is not so welcome me, i'll it said thanks very much. me for inviting me to to come on today. um. okay, so let's just say for super simple. absolutely. it really doesn't matter what it is, the women drummers are rare. there are few role models. okay. quite round of close to that. i mean, you guys have probably done a lot of this already. i'm in your role in bonds, so you will rehearsing. definitely. you will probably kick is there. 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 that. yeah. make making some movement with the least amount of time to come to some action from the home. okay, so i can see a lot of what we would refer to as the french symphony method. bullet hardwood, 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, to fill them in at the end of it. and that, that's not, that's not that, that's what the performance is. so get them have a good time. i'm really interested to see over the coming weeks, months and years. and 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 drummers project become? is there a sound that's 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 makes a big hole will happen so it's just really excellent in the whole things just like really quickly, you know, this is just lovely to say as low as the next morning there was a meeting at the fire bug, the pub hosting, the big concert, the drums, amps, cables, instruments, roots 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 she'll be here on minutes just yeah. she's going to wait. i'll wait and find out or yeah. yeah, i find the site should i find somebody who can do this is going to be too heavy samantha. oh yeah. so it with them. so that was i sorry, basically. now we roll out is all set to go and have a chat with them. time for us sound check

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

or the phones save all this phase. one of the biggest was lives the fox, the lights off. my mom is crazy. may like this only to involve less than 2 and a half years there. beverage need to just play some songs with some women in

a box. so why the quote now is crazy. like so many understands. so it's been sorted big if you've never stayed on stage before, all the ready, women is never been in the bond before because this is the stall to bit. you come on stage, you sing with us, you pulled the bonds. the

. what no one know is that this was to be roots last performance, the the some i lived with me and get something done. if i could draw us something like that, that would carry on. that would be my life a really? so yes, a soft with problem with the very those, but i'm kind of moving towards in spa at the people in the room to lift the music and gums maybe in

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