to june, more thoughts now when the story inform my reliable news from migraines, wherever they may be, 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 as a concert of the stage. 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 printing just on the call. okay. he'll coats out of town. but janet is going to bring us alone and i'm bringing up. i come from, i think in the beginning i knew that are all low to barry as to why women to get up on stage enjoying bands and the bar 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 the. 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 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 your children, ruth is retired as a pensioner. she suddenly finds yourself having time on her hands. i think society says, well, if you eliminate the 50 you do so ring. you may not some 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 t since or you do yoga and keep fixed till you get a job. joking this, this and things the, it feel over 50. they all good help ease 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, you know, meant to last got this some tests to kind of day,

but it doesn't happen like does say something that's involved days the periods of time if you're not so. so to 5, right? some really simple songs, because you can write songs and not pump tradition of me and just blowing cold, very simple bait and teach some women who've never played before. how to play one string on a bass or just a very successful and b tumm new drugs. you could make it so it took an interesting as a much enjoy. the roots workshops and online courses have drawn in more and more women. the thing here is be a good. the

young, glamorous 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 net 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. chrissy 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'm you know, off i can lot propagation so this is the one piece of it. it's kinda christie has been playing music all her life. christie has been playing music all her life. she fairly survived the serious accident when she was 13. her face and body were badly burnt. i suppose news, it was kind of my escape from day to day reality because of my visible difference. i felt bullied 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, 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 insurance and not. and also we have all the posters of everything that's happening. the governors 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 their start here with ruth. this is a library, this is where it all saw its size. you can say we go 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 they all start in widely. and this is beginning of one of all songs when we all women and why room. we play in a back. because we want to been serious so much to get to a we are women in why room, as 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's wolves could play a gig their band member. deena can hardly believe it or 2 boys are less impressed. it's crazy. all guitar is onto lucy. she's still

a little high. 2 weeks ago that there was huge fund. i'm mostly button. this is just right. it's just, it's mind blowing isn't where this is taking us using what we saw last. john, you raise the boat february. we saw it in way. yeah. getting on the stage was like an out of body experience was not sweet rush. it was pretty, i've done little things at primary school to high school. i had gone in and recalled 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 this. i know be no woman who says any different heart, you know, just by it is 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, you know the moments between your serving so and obviously exactly the same. yeah. and i would like to to let you know, i had no name. i had no person you were trying to get over dina 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. and i asked him 6 days of the week, but if i wanted to do something we'd have to do that. oh, i don't remember. i have to be stuck at home. i'm sorry, i didn't realize i was me a prisoner in my own house, but i'm not upset many notice from managed to unlock. sanderson lester is proud to be known as the capital of female punk bands. thanks to the on the glamour of music project. the cities 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. pumps and restaurants remain shuttered for 15 months . the nice thing they have come about because of cov it and i think because

it is that there was a particular island about cove it then drew on know belong does that women have locked down? was very hard on, single mother is 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 sort of work to contract it out. oh god god, this is the 1st time she thought the streets right. come on then i said if it were

me to finally 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 bond stuff. i think i'd be so unhappy i'd struggle. it brings me so much joy producer, which copied us briefly so many friends and my social life. you know, they were my best friends now and a, as a 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 tripe, i found a 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 that that's math. my name's sophie, i'm in one of the 3 bands playing tonight. velvet 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 watkins organizing this and in fact,

organizing the entire pro, program and projects. but unfortunately she comp joined 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 in the little bit for our next wonderful bands tonight. the concert loop out punk mountain room in a different city in front of

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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 as 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. um 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. okay, cool. do i have? yes. this big chunk of the building has agreed to do a workshop. hateful women who's been taking drugs for awhile and it's not 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 placed in bonds 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 guy. 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 let's just say shaky services. absolutely. really. doesn't matter what it is, the women drummers are rare. there are few role models. okay. quite round of a pool so that i mean, you guys have probably done a lot of this already. i mean, your role in bonds that 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 that. yeah. make make it's moving 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 as 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 be the put in deal. i 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. 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 glamorous project become? is there a sound? does that seem hiring 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 say it's 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 guess i what race wants today? so i went to she'll be here on minutes just yeah. she's going to wait and wait and find out. yeah, yeah. i'm fine site, so that's fine. get somebody to come to us. this is going to be too heavy samantha . oh, yeah. so it with himself, state was i sorry, basically. now we roll out. it's all set to go and have a chat with them. time for a sound check to

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what no one know is that this was to be roots. last performance. the some i lived with been get something done. if i could drive something like that, that would carry on. that would be my life same really. so yes, a software problem with the 3 knows, but i've kind of moving towards in spa at the people in the room to lift the music and gums maybe to

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