The question every woman in rock is sick of answering—answered anyway, gloriously.
All too often, every great female rock musician has to answer a predictable question - what is it like being a girl in a band? For many, the sight of a girl shredding a guitar or laying into the drums is still a bit of a novelty. As soon as women started forming their own bands they were given labels - the rock chick, the girl band or one half of the rock 'n' roll couple. Kate Mossman aims to look beyond the cliches of fallen angels, grunge babes and rock chicks as she gets the untold stories from rock's frontline to discover if it has always been different for the girl in a band.
Acting
Viv Albertine's unfiltered stories—no performance, just war stories.
Direction
Mossman's interview style: sharp, sympathetic, never fawning.
Production
Raw archival footage that smells like cigarette smoke and rebellion.
Director
Dione Newton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during a wave of 2010s feminist punk revival, this doc became reference material for a new generation discovering riot grrrl and post-punk through streaming archives.
Mossman's background in music journalism—not performance—shapes her outsider-insider perspective, asking questions fans actually want answered rather than industry fluff.
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