to content about sexuality and sexual matters. i'm liza model that and i'm going to be exploring all listen more in a new season of my math test available on all platforms, 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

root, 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 been just on the call. okay. he'll coats out of it down. it's going to bring us along. i'm bringing up. i think in the beginning i knew that are all loads of barriers 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,

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 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 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 find yourself having time on her hands. i think society says, well, if you're a woman over 50, you do so ring. you make not quilts. you, um, 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. if you'll over 50, they all good to help ease those conclusions that 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 torture. then she became a mother and punk rock to go. she hasn't missed it until now. everybody thinks this is the moment of loss. got this fantastic. i did,

but it doesn't happen. well, it does say something that's involved date is that a period of time if you're not so. so if i write some really simple songs, because you can write songs and not public tradition of just blowing cold, very simple bait on, teach some women who never played before. how to play one string on a base or just a very successful and be 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

young, glamorous music project has found a home at 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. 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'm you know, off i can watch propagation. so this is the one so it's kinda cool. 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 thought bullied 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? all the rehearsal rooms. it's got different colors to them. and the 1st one is the all being true and not. and also we have all the posters 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 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 instrument they can play,

what instruments they like to learn to play. and the all starts in the library. 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. i'll get taurus 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 this moment where this is taking a few things. we started last. john, you raise the boat february. we saw sitting with the getting on the stage was like an out of body experience was not sweet brush. 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 and old women will say there's no, be no woman who 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, you know the moments between your serving so and obviously exactly the same. yeah. and not with my kids really. oh, you know, i had no name, i had no person you're trying to get over the no managers to carve

a few hours out of a week for band practice and a concert her ex husband isn't always pleased when asked me to take the kids and i asked them 6 days or 2 weeks, 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 in a prison or 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 glamorous 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. pubs and restaurants remain shuttered for 15 months . the, nothing they have come about because of cove. it and i think because

it's less that there was a to take sheila and about cove it then drew on know belong to 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, sweet. and i wanted you to get out of the disk of the 1st time you've had the stories, right? come on, then i said if it were me to

finally have a dream after either way for break time break time. what did the concert in nodding um 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 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 low lay people that when know you anymore. you know, they the fine and they're around when the babies away. so. but you know,

the last year since virginia is wolves, i've found the tripe. i found a community of women, rough afraid and nodding them, is 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 are we saying that that's not. 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 quote. 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 conjoined this 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 in little bit for our next wonderful bands tonight. a concert booth out punk mountain room in a different city in front of

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body out just by a wave the, the, you know, say well you and every day the album, there it is, the name you oh my god. i think it has blown up to something incredible. something. uh and i mean the idea that ruth todd is blown up to a point where she never envisage this. we know the end business days. uh so i think it's probably gonna gloves more as well. i definitely believe it's going to going to move. so yeah, we're here to take her to 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 as a form of music created by a different group of people that 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. 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 who do lessons with the lady who knows the basics, but maybe help them place in the fund, but also to be played 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 hold 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 on today. um. okay, so let's just pass by so she's super simple. absolutely. it really doesn't matter what it is of 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 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'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 dealing 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 that? what, what kind of places are they going to does? does the unglamorous 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, you know, disperse and do other things when she never typically will happen. so it's just really excellent in the whole things just like it's almost like 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 should be here on minute just yeah. she's going to wait and wait and find out. yeah, yeah. i think the site should not find somebody to come to this is going to be too heavy, samantha. oh yeah. so it with them. so it was i sorry, basically. now we roll out. it's all set to go and have a chat with them. time for us sound check

to the to change the route span the group that kicked off everything 2 years ago takes center stage. the

phones phase, always say it's called the biggest bows. like the fox, the lights off. my mom is crazy. may like this. only to involve less than 2 and a half years. they're very originate to just play some songs with some women in a box. so want to come now it's crazy. like so many understand. so it's been

started big if you've never seen on the stage before, all the women, it has never been in the box before because this is the stall to bit you come on, stay just same with us, all the bands the . 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 draw us something like that, that would carry on. that would be my life a really? so yes, i spoke to a public which has read those, but i've kind of moving towards inspire the people in the room to lift the music and gums, maybe in the

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