Brighton Music Conference 2019
If you were an alien, beaming down the i360 to the 2019 Brighton Music Conference, I don’t think you’d have realised that the electronic music industry is a very male dominated world. Certainly at an...
View ArticleHow to find music made by women. Drawing the line with Jacki-E
Jacki-E (aka Jacqueline Palmer) has just won herself a residency at Liverpool’s techno club-night Mono in a live DJ competition. That takes guts by anyone’s standards but is an especially brilliant...
View ArticleDo what you love: Meet Trish Complete
Last week I gave my inaugural lecture as a Professor at the University of Portsmouth. I was speaking on ‘Doing what you Love: the aesthetics of 21st century work motivation’ and the talk was inspired...
View ArticleSHOW NOTES: ItKoS Episode 22: Lisa Lashes
This show was first aired as ‘Sisu Presents’ on Friday 27th Nov 2020 11am GMT on Threads Radio Available to listen in full at https://soundcloud.com/dovetail_uk/itkos-episode-22-lisa-lashes-nov-2020...
View Article9 things I learned about white privilege on Black Out Tuesday
On Tuesday June 2nd 2020, the music industry pressed pause on their everyday activities to devote the day to education and reflection about how black, indigenous, people of colour (BIPOC) are...
View Article#Unheard: Let’s Make Some Noise
Unheard is Eve Horne’s campaign to forge solidarity among womxn in the music industry, raising money to help girls and womxn from disadvantaged backgrounds get educated in music production. At the same...
View ArticleSisu: The Art of Inner Strength
Sisu is a community providing a platform to educate, inspire and showcase aspiring women, trans women and non-binary DJ’s and producers. “To the Finnish people, sisu has a mystical, almost magical...
View ArticleMPW: Music Production for Women
Xylo Aria, producer, singer, songwriter and founder of MPW Xylo Aria is a singer, songwriter and producer based in Melbourne. Australia. She’s the driving force behind MPW – a development resource and...
View ArticleGood Vibes Only: Finding your value as an electronic artist
The clue is in the name… Good Vibes Only is a super upbeat project founded by DJ Lady Eliza that’s equipping female DJs with entrepreneurship and business skills. When booking artists for her events,...
View ArticleLeaving ‘identities’ out of electronic music is not an option: Here’s why
Last Friday wonderful ‘critical music’ journalist Anu Shukla from Resident Advisor ran a story on the In the Key of She Producer Directory – a database of 250+ artists who identify as female, trans or...
View ArticleSafer Dance: A job for the boys
The only thing that should be on your mind when you’re off out clubbing is fun – having a great time and forgetting your worries. But for too many people that’s not the case – in 2021 a whopping 86% of...
View ArticleMisogyny in Music: Singing to the same old tune?
In April, the UK Government rejected the recommendations of the Misogyny in Music report issued in January 2024 by the Women and Equalities Select Committee. Let’s just run that again. The UK...
View ArticleMyth 1: But there are no women producers?
The general perception that there aren’t any women producers in electronic music is the first of the myths that I take to task in my forthcoming book. I’m sharing key ideas from each chapter as content...
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