THE
DREAM WAVE Never ones to rest on their laurels, Dream Wife have been using their
latest tour to showcase a new wave of female and non-binary artists while opening up a conversation about gender equality across music
to boot. We catch up with the trio on the road to witness how 2018 has
seen their ‘Bad Bitches’ community go global.
Words: Rachel
Finn. Photos: Meg Lavender.
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t’s 7pm on a dark October evening in Nottingham city centre and in a space above the Rescue Rooms, Dream Wife are asking a congregation of around twenty people, all sitting around in a circle on a colourful array of blankets, to introduce themselves to the group. Some introduce themselves as local music fans, others have recently picked up instruments for the first time and are looking for bandmates and some have come alone hoping to meet others who share their interests and music tastes. Whatever their reason for attending, all have
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been recruited via Instagram by the band - singer Rakel Mjöll, guitarist Alice Go and bassist Bella Podpadec - as part of a series of meet-ups before each show on their autumn UK tour, bringing together fans and representatives from the local music scene of each city they visit, keen to promote female-identifying and non-binary people in all areas across the music business. With a sleepover-meets-seminar vibe, over the next hour an informal discussion takes place about the difficulties of starting out in local scenes that are often male-dominated, both for artists
“We didn’t expect to get so many applications - we got 433 in a week!” Rakel Mjöll
