Fan Club Issue 2

Welcome to Fan Club.

We’re putting on monthly events at Rough Trade, (Nottingham), to promote and celebrate female artists, musicians, writers, illustrators, whatever.

Women doing awesome things is what we love, and we want to share that with everyone.

We want to make the night super inclusive, so if you feel you want to get involved, just shout!

Fan Club parties will happen on the first Saturday of every month, at Rough Trade, Broad Street, Nottingham.

If you want to get involved in any way at all, you can email us at ‘fanclubnotts@gmail.com’

Thanks to: Ganda Media for printing our zines, posters, flyers and stickers. (http://www.gandamediasolutions.com)

Katie Abey for the fantastic front cover, which was an illustration for International Women’s Day. Also a huge thanks to Roz Tuplin, Maisie Hambleton, Rosie Crabtree, Becky Riley, The Hellfire Harlots and Nottingham Roller Girls for being such inspirational teams of women.

Thanks to Hollaback, for making real change in Nottingham. xo Kaylea

@FANCLUBNOTTS FACEBOOK.COM/FANCLUBNOTTS

Katie is an illustrator and creator of magical things.

She is inspired by anything weird and wonderful. She creates quirky, colourful and happy illustrations by combining humour and puns with a touch of attitude & sweetness. Every single day starts with a fun daily doodle to get the cogs whirring.

When she’s not drawing she enjoys music, cuddling her cat, reading, going on adventures and frequently changing her hair colour to match its surroundings.

Shop: katieabeydesign.etsy.com You can buy Katie’s products at the following places: Cavology - Cobden Chambers, Nottingham Nook & Cranny - Bold Street, Liverpool Hopkinsons Gallery - Nottingham The Harley Gallery - Worksop Good Golly Miss Molly - Exeter Handmade Nottingham - Malt Cross, Nottingham

There was a time when Josie Long’s stand-up was routinely labelled with a hurried semi-accuracy, as ‘quirky’ or ‘whimsical’. She would use her shows to promote enthusiasm and optimism as beguiling philosophies, and do things like getting the audience to participate in a game of Boggle. Then, in the wake of the 2010 general election, she found politics, switching her focus to the very real and very frightening things happening to our communities and welfare institutions under the Coalition government. More recently, she began to channel this fury and passion into strenuous outdoor pursuits. Suddenly her stand-up was about the transformative potential of getting off your bum and conquering your ‘Personal Best’.

’ Seeing the latest Josie Long show is like checking in with an old friend from university who you wish you saw more often’’

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I don’t mean to list the many incarnations of Josie Long in order to undermine her – on the contrary, her constant reinvention is her greatest strength. Even some of the very best comedians spend their whole careers playing one changeless character, but with Josie you can see the same woman regularly and radically transformed by life experiences and self-reflection – you know, like a real person. Seeing the latest Josie Long show is like checking in with an old friend from university who you wish you saw more often. But the latest change is perhaps the most surprising.

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Maisie is a Graphic Design student at NTU. (maisie9@hotmail.co.uk)

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If that sounds self-indulgent, it certainly doesn’t come across that way onstage. This show feels like a real attempt to reach out to the audience through shared personal experiences: not to tell us what to do, but to share with us about the things we’ve all done. For the first time ever, she properly discusses sex (in graphic gynaecological detail). She talks about her family, her strange taste in men, being jealous of teenagers.

Admittedly, I didn’t always feel like the primary target for this piece. I didn’t relate to the material about being in unrequited love with a monstrous boyfriend. I didn’t particularly recognise my own experiences in her story about bonding with her newborn niece. It didn’t matter, because the topics under discussion were big enough, deep enough, felt true and real enough, that someone in that audience, somewhere, would have seen themselves in those experiences.

Josie Long has always been a bit of a fantasy friend for me, because I want to sit and watch DVDs with her and talk about social justice while we eat cheese with both hands (just a suggestion Josie, how about it?), but after seeing Cara Josephine, I felt like I wanted to be a real friend to her. In fact, I wanted to give her a hug and a tissue. But much more importantly, I felt that there were probably people in the audience who would have recognised her emotions completely, and found it useful in their own lives to know they weren’t alone.

And there’s nothing self-indulgent about that.

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Hollaback are making a piece of community art that will be the main feature of an exhibition at the end of the year. Join them at Fan Club & say PANTS TO HARASSMENT.

At our Hollaback x Fan Club event, we will be showing a live projection of a Tweet wall where you can share your experiences of street harassment.

If you want to leave your experiences anonymously, then you can post it in the anon submissions box that is on the merch stall and we can tweet it for you, You can also DM us on Twitter (just message us and we will follow back!).

Let’s HOLLABACK! and feel safer on our streets TOGETHER. - Use the hashtag #hollabacknotts

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Sleater-Kinney

illustration by Jason Robinson (http://iparabola.deviantart.com/)

Camden Roundhouse - 23/03/15

Sleater-Kinney say it themselves on stage - a lot has changed since the beginnings of their career, but not enough. We are still fighting for gender equality. Casual sexism and sexual harassment is a part of every day life for women the world over, and seeing an all-female band play a sold-out gig at a historic London venue is rarer than it should be. This is why it’s so empowering to see Sleater-Kinney take to the stage tonight; a band who are cited by many today as one of the most influential groups of the 90s, regardless of gender. They start the show with ‘Price Tag’, from their new album ‘No Cities To Love’, and go on to play a healthy mix of new and old songs alike, including classics such as ‘Modern Girl’, ‘Jumpers’, ‘No Anthems’, and closing the encore with the rocky ‘Dig Me Out’.

They take the time to tell the audience how happy they are to be a band again, and this really shows through their stage presence. Carrie Brownstein slides and shuffles around the stage, punctuating the more aggressive sounds with perfectly timed jumps and high kicks. Corin Tucker juxtaposes this with a more demure but nevertheless equally as captivating presence as her incredible voice purrs, yelps, sings, and shouts their politically and emotionally-charged lyrics. In the background, Janet Weiss gives an athletic performance showing no signs of the decade-long hiatus, and touring member Katie Larkin fills out and complements the famously-bassless trio’s sounds.

Many of the fans in attendance tonight would most likely have been too young to have been fans of Sleater-Kinney the first time round, but seeing so many younger faces tonight proves that their legacy lived on and will continue to live on as they show the world that female bands deserve to own the stage.

- by Rosie Crabtree (@rosiec)

‘Hellfire Harlots’ by Becky Riley

“Real. Strong. Athletic. Revolutionary.”

Nottingham’s Hellfire Harlots are a fierce team of women who play a full-contact sport which is physically demanding, highly tactical, and refreshingly inclusive.

The Hellfire Harlots will be travelling to Belgium in May to participate in the third edition of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association tournament, ‘Skate Odyssey 2015’. SKOD is a tournament in which ten highly-ranked European teams fight for the top place across 15th-17th May. The teams playing include the Central City Rollergirls, Middlesbrough Milk Rollers, Newcastle Roller Girls, and the Paris Rollergirls, who won last year’s tournament.

The Hellfire Harlots will be raising funds for their trip to Belgium, by arranging various fundraising activities over the next month or so. You can donate by going to see them play their next home game against the London Rockin’ Rollers at NTU’s Clifton Campus on 11th April. On the 3rd May, the team are also going to be participating in a sponsored ‘Skate to SKOD’, where the girls will skate the 355 miles from Nottingham to Ghent. You can donate by visiting the Harlot’s website. The Harlots are also hosting a pub quiz on the 23rd April, at the Horse and Groom pub on Radford Road.

http://hellfire-harlots.co.uk/fundraising

‘Slum of Legs’ by Becky Riley

Slum of Legs fight against oppression, misperceptions of trans* indentities and representation.

Slum of Legs fight for equality and acceptance.

Slum of Legs on: - Riots not Diets - Tuff Enuff records - the Brighton DIY scene.

‘Riots not Diets’ is ‘BRIGHTON’S FAVOURITE RIOT GRRL / QUEER / FEMINIST PUNK / DIY NIGHT’ and we love it for its DIY ethos and commitment to creating safe spaces.

‘RnD’ nights always have an amazing feeling about them; fun and inclusive. Its a great night out with brilliant bands, and also feels like you are a part of something important.

Tobi (Riots not Diets/Tuff Enuff) is completely committed to DIY and the politics behind it; Tobi loves music and is passionate about changing the game and trying to create a space in which people can be passionate about the scene – Tuff Enuff (the label) is an extension of that.

The shared values here are important to us and we’re proud to be part of this family!

Slum of Legs are currently touring their second single ‘Doll Like’, which is out on Tuff Enuff records NOW.

Alicia Perry and Rebecca Intavarant are Tuppence Collective.

The talented duo sketch and handpaint original designs for a unique range of beautiful, colourful stationery. Their designs offer a fresh alternative to wedding stationery with its combination of vintage florals and modern colour palette.

Each design is unique and named after and dedicated to a real couple personal to Tuppence Collective.

Tuppence Collective are expanding their products with a stationery range, including old-school telegrams and wrapping papers. www.tuppencecollective.co.uk info@tuppencecollective.co.uk (I strongly recommend the Tuppence Collective Pinterest board!)

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