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The Distillers interview: Kerrang 2003

on February 27, 2024

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Kerrang 882 Dec 2001

Honestly this was a bad time for women being featured in Kerrang, this was it out of the whole issue. And it wasn't because there weren't many women in rock during this time, there were tons, but it seemed Kerrang didn't give a fuck. They were more interested in any Limp Bizkit wannabe band.

Update

I haven't touched this blog in a long time, but I will be back posting again. I am going to mostly use this blog to share magazine scans from the 90s and 00s of women in music. I was using Pintrest (and still have boards there full of stuff) but wasn't happy with how they reduce the quality of the images making most of the print unreadable. I have been blogging at retro junk but didn't want to clog that up with music stuff so here is where you will find all my magazine scans in high quality. The previous posts I made on the blog have gone a but weird as I changed the blog format back to something simple at least for now. Also I still make Ladykillers zine. Issue 1 (the 90s issue) and issue 2 (the 00s issue) are out now through etsy and I have just started working on Issue 3!

Women in magazines

Where I take a look at how women in music have been written about in the music press The 90s/00’s music press guide to writing about women: 1. How can we make this about men? 2. How can we compare them to other women? 3. How can we make this about their looks/body? Let’s have a look at the 23 Sept 2000 issue of NME… All Saints have a cover story over 3 pages, here’s some highlights: The whole article is focused around their famous boyfriends, although it tries to excuse it with this knowing opener. celebrity pop tart Further on in the piece Nicole is asked whether her boyfriend Liam Gallagher is an alcoholic, smackhead, womaniser, what kind of lover he is, what he talks about, what their life is like, are they in love, she’s asked to give five fucking examples of Liam’s loveliness for fucks sake! Even the others are asked what they think of him, the writer is Liam G obsessed. As well as that she’s asked about her ex Robbie Williams (what she though about him saying he never loved her

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