Shirley Manson and Amanda Palmer rock my world

This has been a video about women and music, I guess.

Music clips are from Amanda Palmer’s new single ‘Do It with a Rockstar’ - download for free here: http://www.amandapalmer.net/

Garbage & AFP Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4A78DE73CC2C6BD6

Garbage’s Shirley Manson: ‘Women are disempowered in music’: http://www.nme.com/news/garbage/63714
Interview with Shirley Mason that weirdly seems to take place on a gun range: http://www.bullettmedia.com/article/garbage-frontwoman-shirley-manson-takes-a…

Amanda Palmer’s $1m Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amandapalmer/amanda-palmer-the-new-record…

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It’s nearly 1am on a Sunday, which can mean only one thing, TOPIC ANNOUNCEMENT!!! (I’ll learn to get these up earlier eventually I swear).

THIS WEEK: We’re going talk feminism and music/women who rock.

Life has been somewhat hectic/stressful for many of the ‘Dames recently, and our most recent topics have been kind of heavy, leading to a few quiet weeks. So we thought we’d pick something a bit more chilled out and fun to get everyone going again.

PLUS this week sees the return of both Jenn and Emily, and so will be Steph’s last week as a regular Dame (although we’re hoping she’ll still make loads of guest videos instead). All the more reason to basically turn this week into a big musical party.

NEXT WEEK: We’re back to the more serious stuff talking feminism and fatherhood/male feminists in preparation for Father’s Day here in the UK on 17th June (I’m dreading the comments already).

Then the week after we’re going to talk make-up, whilst simultaneously freaking out about BEING ON TELLY AAAAAHHH!!!

As ever if you’re interested in doing a guest video on any of these topics (or any other topic) shout it out. - Becca x

(First image is of Shirley Manson lead singer of the band Garbage, a young white woman with pulled back red hair grasping a microphone stand and singing, and was taken from Anil Sharma on Flickr.

Second image is of Bill Bailey, a middle aged white man with lots wild looking grey-brown hair, smoking a pipe and wearing a black t-shirt that reads, “this is what a feminist looks like”, and was taken from the Fawcett Society on Flickr.

Third image is of a young white feminine face with lots of different types of make-up samples on it, and is taken from The Guardian.)

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