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closely seemed to bring use a story behind the news. we wrote about unbiased information for 3 months. the it's a special concert. ruth miller is back on stage at age of 61, appearing with her punk bands that were reno 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 come for the stage the,

[000:00:00;00] the roof, the tongue founded 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 been just on the call. okay. it'll close out. but john, 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 and join bands and the bar is all huge. so whether that's who is helping an instrument having it and i'm to

find knowing how it works. taking time to learn things and people's help here, 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 than length of time and the monitors 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 finds herself having time on her hands. i think society says, well, if you're illuminated the 50 you do so ring,

you make not quilts un a, you know, you go out to jen balls and drink gin with your friends or you go around an ancient its house is it looks on t since or you do yoga and keep fixed till you go to all joking this to us and things to it. feel over 50. they all good hobbies, those conclusions. 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 torture. 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 didn't happen a lot. it does say 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 and not pump tradition of and just blowing cold, very simple bait on, teach some women who never played before. how to play one string on the base, or just a very successful and be tell 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 the spring. here it is a,

a good the boss. the unglamorous music project has found a home at state free music studios, a former sock factory that now rents out 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 christy. she lives around the corner and is a long time member of the project. she and sophie our roots trusted assistance. chrissy dialed in

a sound. everything should feel just like it will let the concert on sunday. i am the cartridge. i've definitely definitely experience a whole mixture of different things because as i mean all aspect 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 fairly 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 of 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. 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, all the 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 the beginning of one of all songs when we all women and why room. we play in a back. 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 them's legendary club rough trade has contacted christie asking whether her band virginia is wolves. could play a gig,

their 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, the, the name is huge. pond mostly button. this is just right. it's just this moment where this is taking this you think what we saw last john, you raise about february? we saw system way. yeah. getting on the stage was like an out of body experience was not sweet rush. it was pretty. i done little things at primary school to high school, i going into a record 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 have a name. you know,

the 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. so you're trying to run the know managers to carve a few hours out of a week for band practice at a concert. her ex husband isn't always pleased when i take the kids. i ask them 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. so anything lester is proud to be known at the capital of female punk bands, thanks to the unglamorous music project. the cities image in britain is a great. it's set to be run down and poor. in 2020 less through officials impose the country longest, coded locked down on the city tubs and restaurants remain shuttered for 15 months.

the nice thing it's has come about because of cove it and i think because this is the last that there was a particular island about cove. it then drew on no blank. 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 about the 1st time you've had the stories, right. come on, then i said, if it were me, we finally have a dream after either way for break time break. todd, 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 attracted us briefly so many friends and my social life. you know, they were my best friends now and they are the single parent, a very low lay people that will know you any more, you know,

they the fine and they're around twins babies, at least so. 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 wells 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 saying the math. my name's sophie, i'm in 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 come join us tonight. the . 2 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 to bit for our next wonderful bands tonight.

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we do the album please by the out the just by a we the, the, you in every the album, there it is. the me oh my god. i think it 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 that in 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 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 that 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 has organized the drum workshop with a professional drum. okay, cool though it has yes. this big chunk of the building and has agreed to do a workshop, hateful women who's been taking drugs for one. it's not that was

a mixture of people to be doing lessons with late, who knows the basics, but maybe help them place and but also to be played in bands 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 and the, it's not so well to me. i'll it said thanks very much me for inviting me to to come along today. um. okay, so let's just say schafer. citizen, absolutely. it really doesn't matter what it is of the women drummers are rare. there are few role models. okay. quite round of the pool. so that i mean, you guys have probably done a lot of this already. i mean,

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 make it's moving 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 was the french timpani method, 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. don't mean at the end of it. and that, that's not, that's not that, that's what the performance is. so, i'm getting 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 unglamorous 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 never gets a bit of how it 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 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 she'll 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 who can do this is going to be too heavy samantha. oh yeah. so it with them. so it was i sorry. basically now we roll out is all set to go and have a chat with them. the time for

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you pulled the bonds. the . what no one know is that this was to be roots. last performance the some of them might lived with been 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 spouse to a public which has read those, but i've kind of moving towards in spite of the people in the room to lift the

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