Girls To The Front
Inspired by the Riot Grrrl movement of the early nineties, which saw bands like Bikini Kill encouraging women to come down to the front at gigs, Girls To The Front is a series of shows, hosted by NME, designed to showcase the incredible range of badass women and non-binary artists creating music right now. The music industry is still incredibly gender imbalanced but we’re here to prove that “there aren’t enough female musicians” is just a cop-out excuse by festival and label bosses to not do their bit. Girls To The Front is about creating safe spaces for women to enjoy music and giving a platform to female artists. Come down to the next show. And check out what you’ve missed so far here.
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Arlo Day Credit: NME -
Credit: Chloe Hashemi Girli interview: “There’s always going to be a place for a male indie band, but it’s harder if you’re female artist”
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Credit: Press Girls To The Front IV: come down to NME's next free gig night tomorrow
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Black Honey: “Ladylike can go fuck itself”
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Credit: Chloe Hashemi “Women in music need to create their own rules and not live by other people's” NME meets Glowie
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Credit: Fiona Garden The Big Read – The Japanese House: "There's emotion captured in my music, forever"
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Millie Turner: “I work to inspire girls”
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Credit: Girls Rock London Girls Rock London: behind the scenes at the music camp that’s shredding the patriarchy
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Credit: Wunmi Onibudo Beabadoobee: "I want to collab with Tom Hanks"
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Credit: Wunmi Onibudo The Japanese House and Beabadoobee played a tiny free gig last night
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Credit: Jenn Five The Big Read - Dream Wife: "Just because we have vaginas, doesn't make us a girl band"
