The New

Welcome to the revamped Jenny Woolworth Radical Repository! After a bit of time off I am back to once again bring you music herstory and radical history. From Spare Rib to Slash, circus posters to political posters, there is a world of digital heritage out …

Venus Weltklang Festival 1981

Venus Weltklang, the first international women’s rock festival, took place in West Berlin, Germany from 19. – 21. June 1981. The line-up was simply amazing. After the festival, Stuttgart based Flame Records put out a compendium album featuring thirteen tracks recorded live at the event. I …

Riot Grrrl, part 2: Me and the ‘Zines

Between 1992 -1996, during my late teens, I published a series of personal ‘zines. The first three editions I called Busy Bea’s Bush, as a play on Beatrice, my middle name. But I then got a bit shy about the title and decided to change to …