LOUD WOMEN Announce Debut Asian Festival In Tokyo

After 11 years building a grassroots network across the UK, Europe, North America and Australia, LOUD WOMEN are bringing nine women-led punk and alternative bands to Japan for LOUD WOMEN Fest Tokyo that will take place at Shinjuku’s MARZ on the 14th November. Presented in collaboration with Tokyo rock-for-climate event series Too Hot to Be Cool, the one-day festival connects nine women-led acts from Japan, South Korea, the UK and US, linking Tokyo’s DIY scene with an international community created to amplify women in punk and alternative music. LOUD WOMEN Fest Tokyo will feature 18Fevers, Akabane Vulgars on Strong Bypass, The Daddy Sisters, THE JUNGLES!!!, Mikabomb, Molotov Princess, Siam Jem, Sister Ghost and Vampire Bats.

“LOUD WOMEN started in a tiny London pub because women were missing from too many stages. Eleven years later, we’ve built an international DIY community connecting artists and audiences across borders. Tokyo is a completely new chapter for us, and that’s what makes it so exciting: bringing brilliant Japanese bands into that network, introducing visiting artists to the local scene, and amplifying women making alternative music around the world. We had hundreds of applications for this first Tokyo festival, which tells you how much appetite there is for these connections.” (LOUD WOMEN founder Cassie Fox)