{"id":6271,"date":"2021-05-18T13:54:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2021-05-18T13:54:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T12:54:15","slug":"loud-women-unite-for-charity-single-reclaim-these-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=6271","title":{"rendered":"LOUD WOMEN unite for charity single Reclaim These Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UK collective LOUD WOMEN<\/a><\/strong> have released a single, Reclaim These Streets<\/em>, as a powerful statement of intent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

More than 60 female vocalists lend their voices to the song, which is raising money for Women’s Aid<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are led by Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama\/Shakespears Sister<\/a><\/strong>), Brix Smith Start (The Fall\/Brix & The Extricated<\/a><\/strong>) and Patsy Stevenson (the face of the Clapham vigil).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOUD WOMEN hopes to turn up the volume on discussions about women\u2019s safety after the recent deaths of Blessing Olusegun and Sarah Everard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women’s safety<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As the song says, it will continue to highlight the issue \u201cuntil every woman is safe to walk on every street\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOUD WOMEN\u2019s founder, Cassie Fox, wrote the song, with the spoken word\/rap section from Brix Smith Start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brix Smith Start gave her immediate backing to the Reclaim These Streets project.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Instrumentation is provide by a female and non-binary supergroup containing members of My Bloody Valentine, Salad and punk band T-Bitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list of contributing vocalists reads like a ‘who\u2019s who’ of women in the alternative music scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They include Estella Adeyeri (Big Joanie), Janey Starling (ex-Dream Nails), Nadia Javed (The Tuts), Ren Aldridge (Petrol Girls), Debbie Smith (Curve\/Echobelly), Jo Bevan (Desperate Journalist), Marijne ven der Vlugt (Salad) and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siobhan Fahey was one of the few female contributors to the 1984 Band Aid single Do They Know It\u2019s Christmas<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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