4 bands for a fiver!
gig news!
We are playing with the fantastic Shooting Daggers, Comeback Clit and Dinosaur Skull on Saturday 29th January at the Queens Head in Brixton.
It’s £5 (pay cash on the door – old style)
Scroll down to check out videos from Shooting Daggers, Comeback Clit and Dinosaur Skull.
Gig! Saturday 11 December
UPDATE: CANCELLED DUE TO COVID
Our final gig of the year! Playing alongside our favourites I, Doris.
Sheila will be standing in on drums for this one (she played with us at Wotsit Called Fest).
Come along and join the festive fun (remember to do a lateral flow test first!)
Hope & Anchor, N1. Saturday 11th December doors – 7.30pm, £8/£10
see Loud Women for info
SOLD OUT!
Our record was only released on Friday and today Damaged Goods told us that they have SOLD OUT! We have a very small amount to sell at gigs and we’ll be putting a handful of these for sale on our Bandcamp page soon – keep an eye open so you don’t miss out!
Rape Is Rape, Even If The Rapist Is In A Band That You Like
9 days to go until our record is released! Here is one of the songs from it…
Rape Is Rape, Even If The Rapist Is In A Band That You Like
Just because someone is in a band that you like doesn’t mean they are incapable of sexual assault. Too often when men in bands are accused of assault the victim is called a liar, blamed, and is ostracised. This song is not commenting on any particular person or incident. We believe that the problem is widespread – almost all of the women we know in the punk scene have experienced some levels of sexual assault or violence, it is time that the problem is taken seriously and we get rid of the culture that gives men in bands a free pass to act how they want with no consequences.
Record review!
The Vinyl District have said some nice stuff about our new record!
Rabies Babies, S/T 10-inch (Damaged Goods) This UK-based label has become something of a fixture in this column, which is tribute to sustained quality since kicking into gear back in 1988. This consistently comes partly through focus as the discography is loaded with raw no-frills punk, snotty and snarly, both contemporary and in reissue. This new 6-song set from the Rabies Babies fits into Damaged Goods’ equation but also expands it a little, as these UK feminist garage anarcho punks (who’ve been at it since 1999) bash out a racket that would’ve fit just fine on one of the Kill Rock Stars comps or perhaps on a 7-inch in K Records’ International Pop Underground series. To get a little more contemporary, they could easily end up on a future volume in the Emotional Response label’s Typical Girls endeavor.
Rabies Babies divide their record into halves by mood, with the first side angry, opening with the inspired screed against victim-blaming “Rape Is Rape, Even If the Rapist Is in a Band That You Like.” They also tackle casual sexism in cycling in “On Your Bike” and being trapped in a madhouse (which sucks) in “Madhouse.” The flip is the fun side, as “Party,” “La La La” and “I Fought the Floor and the Floor Won” illuminate that Rabies Babies like to enhance their good times with booze. Cheers! The musical glue that holds it all together is rough-throated with beaucoup amp gunk, so that not only did Riot Grrl come to mind more than once and specifically Bikini Kill’s “Suck My Left One,” but also a few spots (like “Madhouse”) pointed back to the ’80s Cali hardcore scene. A stirring blast, short and sweet at 12 minutes. A-
Radio show!
Mawkish Twaddle Radio Show is excellent – 3 hours packed full of great tunes, including one of ours two hours in.
Listen on Mixcloud
About the show:
Mawkish Twaddle, the Saturday evening radio program on KXSF 102.5 FM in San Francisco, marked its third anniversary last night with tracks from The Top Boost, Cult Figures, Tiña, R.E. Seraphin, The William Loveday Intention (Billy Childish), Bradley Skaught, TJ Cabot & Thee Artificial Rejects (Phone Jerks-related), Brian Mello, Twisted Ankle, The Speedways, Juniper, Kobra, West Coast Sick Line, Je Suis Animal (official), Starbelly with Roger Joseph Manning Jr., The Paving Company, Mekons, Disco Junk Band, Cocktails, Let It Come Down (KRAMER and Xan Tyler), Rabies Babies, Julie Et Joe, All Hits, Pash (Urban Cowboy Records), The Fiery Furnaces, Happyness, Damaged Bug, Mainframe, The Explorers Club, Lake Ruth & Listening Center, Wire, Good With Parents & Triple Stephens (Blank Editions), Joe Pernice, and Stuart Moxham & Louis Philippe.
From the past: The Ar-Kaics, The Sunshine Fix, Isabelle Aubret, Sloan Music, Weekend, The Imaginations, The Fall, Fountains Of Wayne, Sarah Goes Shopping, and The Westwoods. Some of these are summer-themed songs to commemorate that particular solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere; others are from newly released collections.
All of it can be heard on Mixcloud.
Tune in…
Listen today at 6-8pm for the Top of The Pops Foxy Radio Show on www.dealradio.co.uk Lemy pops into the Foxy show tonight don’t miss what he as to say to all the Foxy Radio listeners. + in the hot seat Adam Ant and Rachel Stamp guitarist the very talented, lovely and adorable Will Crewdson Plus music from MotorHead Lemmy Kilmister _johnny_thunder The new The DeRellas fab hit tune! Captain Sensible The Damned Killing Joke Love Like Blood Rabies Babies Gen X The Straps CHOKING SUSAN Dave Earl AKA Dave Underhand Sex Pistols and more. Music and mayhem that’s what I call entertainment!
Damaged Goods Thursday Playlist
One of the songs from our new 10″ mini LP is included on this week’s Damaged Goods Records playlist! We are so honoured to be on this amazing garage punk playlist amongst heros like Billy Childish, Holly Golightly, Cyanide Pills and Johnny Moped. Listen here
Rabies Babies record news in Italiano
News of our record in Italiano – read the whole article here
Rabies Babies
Le leggendarie punk femministe londinesi RABIES BABIES annunciano l’omonimo debutto in uscita il 19 giugno su Damaged Goods Records. Sarà in vinile 10”, edizione limitata a 300 copie contenente la fanzine, uno sticker e una cartolina.
di La Redazione
Le Rabies Babies fanno canzoni veloci, divertenti e incazzate some come mandare a puttane una festa e distruggere il patriarcato. Garage punk anarchico nato dalle scene squat degli anni ’80 e ’90 tra New York e Londra.
“Il nostro suono è sporco e duro, qualcosa che sta vicino a Black Flag, Kleenex e The Slits. Anche se suoniamo dal 1999, siamo sempre state impegnate a realizzare costumi bizzarri anziché dischi. Le Rabies Babies erano più occupate a urlare e divertirsi che a ottenere un contratto discografico, quindi questo mini album per Damaged Goods è praticamente il nostro esordio. Quando Ian ci ha chiesto se ci sarebbe piaciuto registrare per l’etichetta abbiamo risposto di sì perché amiamo la musica degli artisti che incidono per Damaged Goods e non potevamo lasciarci sfuggire l’occasione di condividere un numero di catalogo con alcuni dei nostri musicisti preferiti.
Il nostro mini-album è diviso in due. Il lato A è composto da canzoni di rabbia: Rape is Rape, Even If The Rapist Is In A Band That You Like è composta di commenti fatti sui social quando i componenti maschi di punk bands sono accusati di violenza sessuale e viene incolpata la vittima; dicono: ‘ho visto che lei stava flirtando, mi hanno detto che si stavano baciando, deve essere stata colpa di lei, avete visto cosa indossava?’
On Your Bike riguarda il sessismo occasionale in bicicletta. Noi tre andiamo in bici al lavoro, così abbiamo raccolto qui le nostre esperienze: ‘Voglio solo andare al lavoro, non mi ricordo di avertelo chiesto quindi non parlarmi della mia bici. No, non sono una cagna conservatrice…’.
Il Lato B è il lato divertente. Party è la storia di una sbornia di tre giorni. La La La è una canzone costruita per il sing-a-long. È un brano molto popolare in Francia ed è l’unico senza parolacce. I Fought the Floor and The Floor Won è un dialogo da lunedì mattina dopo un weekend perso: ‘Mi sono svegliata lunedì con i lividi alle ginocchia, vorrei poter ricordare ciò che ho detto o dove sono stata’.”
Le sei tracce sono state registrate e mixate da Tim Cedar dei Part Chimp e masterizzate da Joe Caithness.
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