Manchester Punk Festival Releases 38th Compilation
Manchester Punk Festival have released the 38th volume of their compilation series ahead of this year’s festival. Manchester Punk Festival Vol. 38 is…
Kicking off 2025 as they mean to go, Manchester, UK’s Loose Articles have revealed their new single, Guitars, Cars, Knickers & Bras. The track is the latest to be taken from the band’s 2024 debut album, Scream If You Wanna Go Faster, that was released via Alcopop! Records. Alongside the single, the band have announced that BBC Radio 6‘s Emily Pilbeam will be the special ambassador for their Arts Council England funded Kick Like A Girl Extra Time! 2025 touring project that will be followed by a run of Summer 2025 festival appearances
“Skimmed off the top of shallow chitchat, I only watch blokes play guitar, women in knickers and bras’, over and over, and over, ‘Guitars, Cars, Knickers and Bras’ was plucked from a workplace conversation about women in music, scrawled across the pages of the ‘Workplace Misogyny Diary’. The track points to the collective issue of not being taken seriously as a female musician, which is something we as a band have all experienced: ‘Are they your dad’s records?’, ‘Is that your boyfriend’s guitar?’, ‘You’re pretty good, for a girl’. Disillusioned sexism channeled into an anthemic sardonic chant; Guitars, Cars, Knickers and Bras, all the essentials.”