Jenny Woolworth’s Women in Punk Blog

Here concludes my interview with Marlene Marder, Astrid Spirig and Klaudia Schifferle, aka LiLiPUT.
Check out the the mital-u website for more info and a discography of the band. A good introduction to the band is the 2001 Kill Rock Stars reissue of a CD compilation of their studio recordings. Diehard fans will enjoy the double [...]

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Here continues the interview I did with Astrid Spirig, Klaudia Schifferle and Marlene Marder, former members of the band LiLiPUT…
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Jenny Woolworth: What did the average person on the street think about you punks? What kind of reactions did you get?
Klaudia: They probably were not very afraid of us, at least!
Marlene: We weren’t punk in [...]

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(l-r) Astrid, Klaudia, Marlene

As a teenager in the mid-90s I was introduced to LiLiPUT (a.k.a. Kleenex) on a mixtape I received featuring early 80s female-led punk. I was immediately drawn to the band, firstly because they were from Switzerland, my familial homeland, but mostly because their music resonated deeply with me. The openness and delight [...]

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Between 1992 -1996, during my late teens, I published a series of personal ‘zines. The first three editions I called Busy Bea’s Bush, as a play on Beatrice, my middle name. But I then got a bit shy about the title and decided to change to the more aggressive, less personal Beri-Beri (after the song [...]

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(photo courtesy larrybob)

In a three part series over the next few weeks I’ll explore my personal experience with riot grrrl, the mid 90’s American punk feminist movement. Here’s what you have to look forward to…
In two weeks I’ll publish an interview with Sara Marcus about her recent book Girls to the Front: The True [...]

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(artwork by G.B. Jones)

Ok, summer is just about over but I’m determined to make the hotness last a bit longer. So here are two mixtapes - one contains some of sexy lez songs and the second one is a bit well, special. Get ready for some hot girl-on-girl aural action…
HOT LEZ ACTION MIXTAPE (lesbionic)

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