Marina is Red - Nevermind Your Bcks, This Queen Saved Herself Stephanie Burgess

Back on the 28th September 2019 we checked out the Die Das Der 5th Birthday 'Yr Welcome' celebration at Muther's Studio in Digbeth, Birmingham.
Starting at 3pm, it was a day full of sets from bands on the 'Die Das Der' independent record label... there's a full written review to follow, however, one of the outfits that most impressed me were Pretty Grim, a scream noise band who's ethos is to get together, get drunk, play some noisy music and not take themselves too seriously!  We had a blast talking music, feminism and not letting the politics get in the way of cranking out some serious tunes.


Here's what happened!

Birmingham based punk band, Modern Literature, join me to talk about their new video, Weeping Willow, which will be premiered on my site, www.riotgrrrlzine.co.uk, alongside this episode.  The track deals with Toxic Masculinity.  

"The song is basically a comment on the danger of learned or generational behaviors which are instilled into the human psyche such as the trope of male of entitlement and female subservience, and the fact that actually, the strongest influences in the lives of most men are actually matriarchal and not patriarchal, and is intended to questions and denounce the assumption of male superiority.  Another theme is the futility of endeavors expected of the individual in society and the fact that these will not actually affect the two only certainties (birth and death) of life. This is intended as a comment upon the greed of ambition and it’s leading to a lack of lasting fulfillment. We worked with Thomas Wagstaff on the video and decided that although the song is sung in a male baritone, the song is performed (in as much as it can be) from a female perspective. The motivation of the video was to show a collection of strong females portraying the lyric in any way they felt comfortable."