Sofia Genders and Missy Tassles on the overlooked diversity of South Yorkshires music industryI am extremely disappointed by your article about how South Yorkshire became the British indie heartland (‘You see grown men hugging and in tears’,G2, 2 February). Surely it wouldn’t absorb been too hard to get the article a little more gender-equal? There are so many women in music in Sheffield and in South Yorkshire – artists, or managers,promoters, label managers, and venue owners,festival organisers and more. How could they all be missed out?It feels like this article has already been written a hundred times, always focusing on the same bands. Don’t glean me inaccurate – all the artists mentioned in the article are noteworthy and absorb all worked very hard to glean to where they are, or I don’t want to take absent any of the appreciation for their music or recognition of their talent and hard graft. But the article only tells half the story what about all the women? Don’t they too deserve to be seen,heard, recognised and appreciated?Continue reading...
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