to 9 your journey get in by the it's a special concert. ruth miller is back on stage. that 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 tongue 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, 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 reyes to why women to get up on stage. enjoyed bounds of the bar is all huge. so whether that's here is how big an instrument having it, i'm putting 5 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 ins. 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 our children, ruth is retired. as a pensioner, she suddenly finds herself having time on her hands. i think society says, well, if you eliminate the 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 and so you go around the

ancient houses and look who's on t since will you do yoga and keep fetch where you go. jones jolting this sets and things that they feel over 50. they are good to 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 meant to lock up this fantastic. i did,

but it didn't happen that it does say something that's involved date is that period of time if you're not so. so 25, right? some really simple sol. let's come write songs and not pump tradition of me and just blowing cold. very simple bait and take some women who've never played before. have to play one string on a base or just a very successful and speak to him, 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 the ring. 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. to jean sophie our roots trusted assistance. chrissy dialed in a sound. everything should feel just like it will let the concert on sunday. i am excited. yes yes, definitely definitely experience

a whole mixture of different things because as i mean 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 barely 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 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 bands all got there, start here with root. this is the 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 the old style 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. because we want to been serious so much to get to a uh, 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 sold heights 2 weeks ago that

there was huge funds, mostly button. this is just right. it's just, it's mind blowing isn't 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 rush. it was printing. i've done little things at primary school to high school. i had gone into 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 there's no be no woman who says any different hot, you know, just fire just 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 the twins. yeah. oh, you saw the and so and obviously exactly the same. yeah. and i would like to let you know i had no name. i had no person you were trying to get over to dina

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 him 6 days or 2 weeks, but if i want 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. pumps and restaurants remain shuttered for 15 months . the nice thing they have come about because of cause it and i think because

it's less that there was a to take sheila and about cove it then drew on know belong, does 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 the disk of the 1st time she thought 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 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 the same which door it 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 lonely people that will 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 found 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 we saying that's 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 quote. couple of quick quotes at the beginning on behalf of our glorious found a brief miller who who unfortunately is poorly today isn't going to be able to join us. he's the old work into 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 into the a 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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by the alvin, just by a way, we the, the, you know, say well, you and every day the album, there it is, the me, oh my god. i think it has blown up to something incredible. something uh and i mean the idea that route hot, it's 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 he's going to, going to move. so yeah, we're here to take her to the well 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. he again, 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 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 drummer who has yes, this big chunk of the building and has agreed to do a workshop, hateful women who been taking drums 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 played in bands with no knowledge of 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 that's just something shaken, 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 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 the uh yeah, make, make, keeps 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 the task to be the put in deal. i mean, 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 him 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 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 typically will happen so it's just really excellent in the whole things just like it is almost like quickly, you know it's, it's 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 know what race wants today, so i went to she'll be here on minutes just yeah. she's going to wait. i wait and find out. yeah, yeah. i think so should i find somebody who can do this is going to be too heavy samantha took with them. so was i sorry, basically now was roll out is 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 draw us something like that, that would carry on. that would be my life a really. so yes, a soft with come 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. of

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a long standing tradition in italy and some of the nations that come from a bakery at a maximum security prison in pad wrap a confection that's enjoyed by all of italy. the cake flew jail your own back in 30 minutes on d w. the thing was like a stepping point to point you into that warranty. once it finishes now, yeah. train. you can just go back to somewhere else, come and see more people than ever on the world wide in search of, of best in life. so why do i want to go back tonight? yeah. like, i don't have any reason. there's no reason that's nothing for me this. yeah, i believe something that is coming very, very soon on. we know when the

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