Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of interviews with notable women performers from the rock world focuses on both new performers with a more radical approach and the more established, but still progressive, artists working today. Rock journalist Liz Evans talks to them about their experience of sexism in the music industry, the riot girl phenomenon, whether they see the recent proliferation of women's bands as a trend that's here to stay, their perception of rock music as a barometer of popular culture, and so on.;The interviewees include Tori Amos, Bjork, Siouxsie Sioux of the Banshees, Marianne Faithfull, Babes in Toyland, Kim Gordon, Toni Halliday of Curve, Miki and Emma of Lush, Kim Deal and Lesley Rankine of Silverfish.