Tickets for our date at
@ChakaKhan
’s Meltdown Festival are on sale now! Hear brand new songs from us at the
@southbankcentre
💥
We play the Queen Liz Hall Foyer on Saturday 22nd June, tickets on sale now 🧡
It’s not hyperbole to describe the UK as a fascist island when you have the attack on the Black girl outside Thomas Knyvett College, the anti asylum seeker riot in Knowsley and the murder of trans girl Brianna Ghey in the span of one week.
The dehumanisation of these communities is used to justify violence against them, and the bile spewed and tactics used against them often stem from the same place (see alliances between the far right and TERFs). Mainstream media is also 100% complicit by virtue of amplifying and
We're ecstatic to announce that we have signed to
@killrockstars
!! Our second album will be released in 2021 with KRS in the United States and with The Daydream Library Series in the UK and Europe! 💥
lending credibility to the voices of those who spread hate.
Disgusted doesn’t cover it. Solidarity to all the communities having to live in fear for their own safety and lives for simply existing right now.
RIP Brianna. You deserved so much better. ❤️
This country is sick. Millions spent on ridiculous pageantry celebrating the hereditary heir to a blood-soaked archaic institution. The right to protest quashed by police. A media class devoid of the integrity or independence to be anything but supportive of the above.
Happy International Women's Day. May we continue to remind you that Black women contain multitudes, that trans women deserve the same rights as cis women, that abortion is healthcare, and people seeking asylum should be met with refuge & not hostile borders. 🤍
📷 Rachel Lipsitz
Barbados isn’t a fucking treat for British people who’ve been “good”. It’s people’s actual home?? Who don’t need others travelling there in a pan-goddamn-demic? Tf is wrong with people that this even needs to be explained???
We’re sad to announce that after 10 incredible years of playing together, our drummer Chardine Taylor-Stone is leaving Big Joanie. 🧵(1/5)
Photo: C Faruolo
Reposted from
@loudwomenclub
. If you can afford to support artists through merch sales or buying adv tickets to gigs it can make such a massive difference, as most of us are barely breaking even out here 🙏🏿 and if you don’t have the means, streams & shares are always appreciated!
It’s BACK HOME release day!! 🎉 We couldn’t be happier to share our second album with all of you, a record we’ve poured so much of ourselves into - and we hope you love it as much as we do. 💙
Let us be perfectly clear: we are completely opposed to the transphobia espoused by Suzanne Moore and disgusted by the Guardian’s complicity in it. 1/3
At last!! We play with
@theebikinikill
TONIGHT at
@O2academybrix
! Stage times:
7.30 - Child's Pose
8.15 - Big Joanie
9.15 - Bikini Kill
This is actually our dream show and we're so excited to see everyone there!! So grateful for all the support we've had that's got us here 💕
Wow
@treefortfest
was a wild ride!! Thanks to everyone who came to see us play and shared so many kind words with us after 🧡 awesome to meet the legends
@dinosaurjr
and kit them out with some merch too! ✌🏾
Can still barely believe this happened! We've absolutely loved spending the past two nights supporting Bikini Kill, a band that's been such a huge source of inspiration for us. We're really thankful to have been invited to play these shows 😭💜
Anti-racist work is a long term commitment, a lifetime commitment. It requires resources, internal work, reading, listening, discomfort, solidarity. Make sure you stay focused when the mainstream media moves on from this moment to a more salacious story...
HAPPY RELEASE DAY TO US 🎊 our brand new 7" is out now on
@thirdmanrecords
!! Side A features our cover of
@solangeknowles
' "Cranes in the Sky", while Side B features a new live version of "It's You" 🧡
We’ve finished our first EVER West Coast Tour!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Thank you so much to the folks who made it to our Santa Ana show to send us off in style!
📸: Maia Saavedra
Happy International Women’s Day 💜 while Black Feminism is more of a 24/7 deal for us, we appreciate having this moment to reflect on the trailblazing women who’ve come before us, and on the ways we can contribute to a fairer future for women to come ✊🏿
Playing our first EVER New York City show tonight, and we’ll be opening for
@PLACEBOWORLD
no less! 🤯 Honoured to be supporting them at their sold out
@brooklynsteel
shows tonight and tomorrow - we play at 8pm, then Placebo at 9pm! 💚
📸: Jamie Macmillan
Shouldn’t even need to be said, but a woc should be able to call for pocs & women to the front without white male fragility leaping out ffs. Pearl-clutching cos you’re not being centred for an hour or so is an extremely embarrassing look
Today is all about celebrating our iconic and inspiring drummer
@ChardineTaylor
- please join us in wishing her the happiest of birthdays!! 🥳🧡🥂🔥
Photo by Paul Boyling at
@EventimApollo
📷
Out Now: “Today” featuring Kim Deal 🌺
Adding to an unending list of surreal moments for this band, we’re so happy to share this revamped version of “Today” from our album ‘Back Home’, featuring additional vocals from Kim Deal.
🎧
Join us in wishing a very Happy Birthday to our
@ChardineTaylor
!! 🥳❤️🍾🎂👸🏾
Hope you’re having a brilliant day filled with love and celebration! ✨
📸:
@abbey808
Big thanks to everyone who’s supported us through this phenomenal year! To all of you who come to our shows, listen to and share our music, write about us, tell your friends about us - thanks so much for showing up for us every step of the way. ❤️
Excited to announce that we’ve signed to
@Faber_Alt
music publishing! We’re looking forward to working with their women-led team to spread our music and message even further 🙌🏿 we might not be gigging this month but we’re still making moves ❤️🔥
Solidarity with our comrades in the US fighting for reproductive justice for all. These tees designed by
@KimletGordon
are raising money for
@KeepOurClinics
and
@AbortionFunds
, and are available from
@noisefornow
. Abortion Rights are Human Rights ✊🏿
We open for
@idlesband
TONIGHT at
@O2academybrix
!! We’re onstage at 7.40pm so get down early - we’ll be playing brand new songs from album 2 ❤️💥
📷: Nicholas Sayer
Hey folks, Estella here, and I’m really honoured to share that Bassists Against Racists have chosen me for their June 2023 shirt!! ❤️ Pre-orders are available throughout June ONLY so hit the link >>>
🎨:
@ZTClothing
📸: Maia Saavedra
Just disgusting from the
@metpoliceuk
. The same agents of the state who not only fail to protect us but ACTIVELY VICTIMISE US won’t even let us grieve for the woman who died at their hands.
RIP Sarah Everard. Our hearts go out to her family, friends, and all mourning her. ❤️
Update: We are sorry to confirm that our Clapham vigil scheduled for tonight is cancelled. Please see the full statement here.
Instead, we are fundraising £320,000 for women's causes: £10K for every proposed fine for the 32 vigils originally scheduled.
We’ve touched down in the USA!! 🇺🇸 First show’s tonight at
@LarimerLounge
with
@TheColoSound
running things ✌🏾 doors are at 7, make sure you’re down the front by 8 for
@MotherfuckerTe1
then we’re on stage at 9! ❤️🔥 Tickets available on the door!
Hey I know people are well meaning in telling
@idlesband
to check us out, and it’s awesome that folks want to make sure our name gets out there. But they’ve known of us and have been supportive of us prior to *that* article.
BIG NEWS: we’re releasing a 7" single on
@thirdmanrecords
!! Side A has our cover of
@solangeknowles
’ ‘Cranes in the Sky’, and Side B has the live version of ‘It’s You’ 💥 out on black and coke bottle clear vinyl on Friday 14th August! Pre-order it now!
From our experience actual music fans & musicians have been receptive while the industry (ppl I’m convinced often don’t actually like music) has remained sceptical. But if some yt boys had Thurston Moore & Jack White releasing their records you would not hear the end of it…
I don’t wanna make this about race….but BLACK ROCK AND ALTERNATIVE ARTIST GOTTA WORK 10x HARDER JUST TO GET NOTICED OR EVEN ACCEPTED BY THE ROCK OR ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY WHILE OTHER ARTIST DO THE BARE MINIMUM AND GET PRAISED BY THE INDUSTRY.
Happy Birthday to our lead vocalist and guitarist
@Stephanopolus
! 🥳🥂🎁🎂❤️ Sending lots of love, hope you’re sipping on a mimosa at the spa!
📸:
@hoosatron
Awesome to see the
@guardian
celebrating 30 years of
@killrockstars
today! And proud to be included in their article as members of the next generation of noisy political punk bands 🔥
Thanks to
@marcrileydj
for having us in session on his
@BBC6Music
show last night! While we were sad not to see the man himself up in Salford it was amazing to get to play at the legendary BBC Maida Vale Studios 💙
The lives & rights of the trans community are not “up for debate”. Cis women’s rights are not threatened by or in opposition to trans women’s rights. Persistent attacks like Moore’s have no place in a feminist politic that truly seeks to support those marginalised by society. 2/3
Who’s ready to celebrate 3 years of Sistahs?? 🎉 Join us next Tuesday 30th November at 7pm as we host a Tim’s
@LlSTENlNG_PARTY
for the third anniversary of our debut album! 💓
Ecstatic to announce that we’re supporting the mighty
@SkunkAnansie
next month!!! We join them for one night only at the
@O2academybrix
on Fri 25 March 😱 hugely grateful to share a stage with a band who have inspired us all SO much ♥️‼️
Tickets:
Huge congrats to Third Man London for their opening today in Soho! Their store at 1 Marshall Street is the only spot in the UK to pick up a copy of ‘Cranes In The Sky’ / ‘It’s You’, released last August on
@thirdmanrecords
and sold out everywhere! 💛🖤
Too many international bands have to forfeit their SXSW offers due to the extreme cost of getting there and the zero financial compensation during it. It’s high time this unfair practice changed. Sign & share if you agree!
We’ll be donating any profits from our
@Bandcamp
today to the
@ukblm
fund, supporting their long-term commitment to organising for lasting social change.
Honestly was quite difficult to feel “celebratory” for international women’s day amidst the climate of misogyny, misogynoir and transmisogyny here in the UK
DELIGHTED to announce that our debut album 'Sistahs' will be out this November, released by 'Daydream Library Series' - a new label from Thurston Moore, Eva Prinz and Abby Banks. Head to
@theQuietus
for the scoop and to hear our new single 🧡
.
@Big_Joanie
have announced their debut album 'Sistahs', listen to their new track 'Fall Asleep' now!
It will be the first in a new 'Daydream Library Series' from Thurston Moore and Eva Prinz' publishing house Ecstatic Peace Library
"There’s always someone that wants to hear what you’re doing. There’s always someone that’s been waiting all their life to hear the song you may think is silly or unimportant. But everything that people do is important, and you can inspire so many people even without realising.”
Gassed & grateful to receive
@loudwomenclub
’s Hercury Award 🏆🥰 thanks to everyone who voted for ‘Back Home’! The consistent support we’ve received from LW since we began has really impacted our journey, and in many ways our wins along the way have been theirs too 🫶🏿
Thanks so much to every single person who played a part in our UK headline tour with support from
@ghumband
! ♥️
We had such an unforgettable time: we met some incredibly kind audience members, promoters and venue staff (cont.)
This week we’re announcing 4(!) new band collab beers ahead of us hosting our own stage at
@BigfootFest
’s beer & music festival this weekend 🍻
Today we’re announcing ‘Sistah Punch’ brewed with
@Big_Joanie
, a gluten free mango pale ale available to drink exclusively at Bigfoot.
Thanks to
@st_vincent
for bringing us on the road with her this week, we had such a brilliant time at Edinburgh’s
@theusherhall
! And thanks to her fans for such a warm welcome 🥰
TONIGHT we’re in London at the
@EventimApollo
and we’re on at 7.30pm sharp so get down early!
Honestly it’s been an unbelievable year for us so gonna do a thread of highlights, though there’s still so much we couldn’t fit in here(!). We’re so grateful for the love & support received this year, thank you all SO much and see you in 2020!
Love,
Big J
❤️🎉✌🏾💫
Happy thirtieth birthday to our most excellent bassist Estella who absolutely did not curate her birthday post and had nothing to do with this 😝 Hope there’s many gluten-free treats awaiting you today🎂🎂🎂
Really proud to be featured in the
@britishlibrary
’s “Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights” exhibition. We make an appearance in the form of a photo album with shots of us throughout our time as a band, including this one by Pauline Hisbacq 💜
Had an amazing 3 nights in Manchester with
@idlesband
&
@jehnbeth
! Looking forward to upcoming shows in Sheffield, Newcastle and at the legendary
@TheBarrowlands
💃🏿♥️ huge thanks to Vanessa for joining us on stage for the London & Manchester shows! 🎹
So impressed with the way the England team have played and stuck by their morals throughout this competition. It’s a young team who’ve excelled themselves and are only gonna get even better 👏🏿❤️
Happy 3rd birthday to our debut album Sistahs!! 🎊 This album has really taken us to some wild places and introduced us to some incredible people, we’re truly amazed and grateful for how well it’s been received ♥️
Can’t even put into words how amazing last night was!! Thanks so much to everyone involved for making it so special 💖💖 our next London show is gonna be MASSIVE, at
@O2academybrix
opening for one of our favourite bands ever,
@Sleater_Kinney
!! 😭🌟❤️
"Primarily I would say that [punk] is a general sense of not following the crowd and thinking for yourself. Having a go at something without needing permission." -
@ChardineTaylor
on what punk means to her for
@i_D
🖤
Full article:
📷: Heather Glazzard