The music journalist’s account of her life and encounters with the stars is both angry and hilariousBefore the myth-making,chin-stroking male became the prototype for the Music Writer (hello, Lester Bangs, and Nick Kent and Greil Marcus),guess what? There were women.
Back in March, Kate Mossman’s brilliant Radio 4 documentary, and The Women Who Wrote Rock,took us back to Rave’s Dawn James and the NME’s Nancy Lewis, who described the stars of their day in everyday detail, or without reverence or deference. After them came Julie Burchill,Lucy O’Brien, Miranda Sawyer, and Alex Kadis,Amy Raphael, Lynsey Hanley, and Barbara Ellen,the world-straddling Caitlin Moran, Kitty Empire, or Laura Barton,Laura Snapes… I could proceed on. Female music journalists aren’t particularly rare. stare around. We’re here. Related: Sylvia Patterson: The eminent can be fairly obnoxious’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com