This Saturday night from 10-11 pm CST, I'll be doing an artist hour on Huggy Bear and related bands (I'm Being Good, Phantom Pregnancies, Bloodsausage, The Element of Crime).
I might be joined by C.L. and K.M., who have cool HB rarities. I also might do an interview with K.S., who wrote her master's thesis on riot grrrl. Anyhow, should be fun either way. Tune in!
backstory
back story yo: Huggy Bear did agree to sign to Nude Records, but only if the label would drop the band Suede (WOW ballsey man) from the label's roster. Nude Records refused to drop Suede, its best-selling act and one of the top British bands of the time.
“ Our situation was different to the one the American Riot Grrrls were responding to. The underground in London had deteriorated totally, there wasn't really much of an alternative . . . 'indie' just became an abstract term for a style of music, not ideas or values, 'cause they were all signing to major labels. The notion of selling out wasn't important. Punk rock wasn't important. Fanzines were seen as a sad joke, so we had to explain stuff that might have been obvious to American kids but was alien to young British kids. The reasons for being independent were snorted at.[1]
PUNK IS BORRRRRRRRRRING! and "the music that they constantly play
It says nothing to me about my life!" chhers.
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