ILL / Frau / The Ethical Debating Society at Gullivers 29th November

Here's our new poster for our next TG night at Gullivers with ILL, Frau and The Ethical Debating Society! I couldn't find a pen so I used eyeliner. Really excited for this show! As always, profits go to a local womens charity and their will be free stickers and (hopefully) some exciting visuals!

You can listen to some ILL and Frau below

We put ILL on at our first night so super excited to have them back and hear their new single!

more TG outings

We're guest DJing in the upstairs bar of Soup Kitchen for Remake Remodel's 3rd birthday in a couple of weeks! You should come because it'll be rly fun

Typical Girls move to Gullivers

Here's the poster for our next night at Gullivers. This month's TG cover star is Ronnie Spector because she's the best.

We've got The Ethical Debating Society coming up from London + one or two more tba.

Then Typical Girls DJs playing female fronted music until late!
It'll be £4 before midnight and £5 after so get down early!

Shopping / Good Throb / Mistoa Poltsa

We're DJing at this super awesome night at Fuel with Shopping, Good Throb and Mistoa Poltsa in December!

(and a reminder that our Ace Bushy Striptease / Beauty Pageant / Elopes how is tomorrow!, more deets here)

Typical Ghouls

Here's a Halloween mix for you all!  Featuring Ludus, Siouxsie & the Banshees and 45 Grave!

A Months Worth of Amazing Music

Within the next few weeks there's an absolute abundance of amazing women musicians / bands playing around the city so I thought I'd make a gig guide of the one's we're most excited about. These are just my picks, there are loads more out there this month, go and search them out! I've tried to include a variety of genres and include as many cheaper / DIY events as I can.

Here's a months worth of music, if only I could afford to go all of them!

Susheela Raman

Ruby Lounge

23rd October

£12.50

traditional Tamil / soul

Waxahatchee + Swearin'
Sound Control
25th October
£8.50


solo project of Katie Crutchfield of P.S. Eliot

on the same night:
Lovely Eggs at Ruby Lounge

Honeyblood

Fallow Café

27th October

£5

jangly pop

Warpaint + PINS

Manchester Academy 1

29th October

£15

indie rock

on the same night:
Allo Darlin' at Soup Kitchen

Ace Bushy Striptease + Beauty Pageant + Elopes

1st November

Kraak

£5

Sticking one of our own gigs in here! Noisy DIY indiepop

No Joy

Night & Day Café

4th November

£6

noise/dreampop

Big Deal

Night & Day Café

6th November

£7

dreamy indiepop / shoegaze

Juana Molina

Salford Sacred Trinity Church

7th November

£12.50

Argentinian singer-songwriter

The Tuts + Colour Me Wednesday

Star & Garter

9th November

£4

DIY punkpop girl gangs

on the same night:
Savages at The Ritz

Cassie Ramone + Shopping
The Castle
11th November

CR: garagey swoons
Shopping: dancey London supergroup (ex Trash Kit, Wetdog, Covergirl)

Rokia Traoré

RNCM

11th November

sliding scale - from £7

Malian multi-instrumentalist songwriter

Julia Holter

Deaf Institute

13th November

£12.50

dreamy experimental electronic 

on the same night:

Haiku Salut at Royal Methodist Hall

Ane Brun

Ruby Lounge

15th November

£12.50

Norwegian folk pop

on the same night:
Laura Veirs at Academy 3

Colleen Green

Gullivers

17th November

£5

super poppy lo-fi / super lo-fi pop

Summer Camp

Deaf Institute

18th November

£10

fuzzy indiepop

Jarboe + Die Hexen

Salford Sacred Trinity Church

21st November

£11

experimental darkwave - performed reworked SWANS material

Austra

Deaf Institute

23rd November

gloomy synths

"Punk Heaven for Little Girls"

Discovered this BBC radio show from 10 years ago about the first women icons of punk music, worth a listen! You can listen to it here

Ace Bushy Striptease / Beauty Pageant / Elopes at Kraak

Our next Typical Girls night is on Friday 1st November at Kraak Gallery. This show will be an early finish as Kraak has a clubnight on afterwards, so we'll have to finish by 10.30.

Tickets are £5 in advance from WeGotTickets. All profits from this show are going to LGBT Youth North West.

Listen to all of Ace Bushy Striptease's latest album below as well as singles and demos by Beauty Pageant and Elopes!

ALSO, another date for your diaries, we're DJing at Remake Remodel's 3rd birthday party at the Soup Kitchen on Monday 25th November! See you there!

Carefully Planned Festival

Quick blog of our highligths from Carefully Planned this weekend! We had a swell time despite the rain and were especially pleased to see so many women on this years bill.

Here are a couple of our highlights...

Halo Halo

Halo Halo describe themselves as "dance-sinawi-pop", since I'd never heard of sinawi music before I did some searching and ended up in a (very much recommended) Youtube rabbit hole.

The Hysterical Injury

Brother-sister drum-bass noise duo, absolutely incredible to watch as they both seemed to be having an amazing time (as well as kicking up an almighty racket)! When we walked in their gig at Gullivers they were "channelling the spirit of Leo Sayer".

ONSIND

"ONSIND is a DIY, feminist, vegan, semi-acoustic pop punk band from Pity Me, Durham." They forgot "awesome".

Other honourable mentions: Shield Patterns, Just Handshakes, This Many Boyfriends

Bands we missed but wish we'd got to see! September Girls, Bad Grammar, Big Joan

Typical Girls Night In at Fuel

Last Thursday was our first 'Night In' of female fronted folk / acoustic / soul music. Despite getting a last minute cancellation from one of the bands, the wonderful SEA stepped in and saved the day with just enough time to soundcheck!

Ruby Tingle performing her swampy ballads

We had an amazing time and raised loads of money for the Manchester Womens Aid! We sold out the upstairs room of Fuel so thanks a bunch to everyone who came down and sorry if you couldn't get in!

We will very likely be running some more of these nights at Fuel in the new year so keep your eyes peeled!

Typical Girls - 21st September at Star & Garter

Thanks to everyone who came down!!

Our next night is our Typical Girls Night In at Fuel Café on Thursday 17th October featuring Choo Choo Trains, Ruby Tingle and The Dyr Sister. 

Typical Girls in September and October

Our next Typical Girls night will be on Saturday 21st October at The Star & Garter!

Featuring No Ditching, an all girl DIY pop-punk band featuring members of Martha from Pity Me, Durham.

Plus more bands announced soon!

After the bands we'll have Typical Girls DJs plus special guest Marylin Misandry playing female fronted music for dancing til late.

We're also having a quieter midweek Night In at Fuel Café on Thursday 16th October, get attending here!

Typical Girls at The Star & Garter

The second Typical Girls night, this time at one of our favourite pubs The Star & Garter, went super well and included amazing bands, crowdsurfing and a mass dance to Sugababes.

To start the night we had  Bernard + Edith and Factory Acts, two electronic two-pieces!

We had Sugar Paper Zine  and The Shrieking Violet (wo)manning the zine stall. Sugar Paper were debuting their second Poor Lass Zine as well as plenty of Sugar Papers including the newest, #11 (pictured below), which I absolutely love the cover for! The Shrieking Violet was also selling their very recently released 21st issue (below).

Here are some fabulous phone photos of the dancing after the bands (we're getting a photographer for the next TG, we promise!) We had guest DJs including the amazing Judith K from Sheffield's Discord.

We also have this fuzzy video of the Patti Smith dancing for your viewing pleasure.

We had an incredible night and all the profits went to the amazing M.A.S.H. who we've written about on the blog before, here.

We'll be running another disco night in late September  and then a more chilled out midweek night at Fuel on Thursday 17th October. You can click 'attending' for the October night here and we'll update you when the September event is online!

Typical Girls Shield

by TGs, Jess and Hebe

Typical Girls in the Garage (and other Mixes)

Here's our first 8tracks mix featuring awesome sixties garage babes.

..and here's another one by official-TG-pal, Kai (alias DJ K-Dog), featuring the ladies of post-punk.

Badges

We got some lovely badges made!

It's not long now until our next night at The Star and Garter, so we thought we'd make something special for you all, and so the badges were born!

Past Flyers

Here are some of the flyers for Typical Girls nights from when it lived in Sheffield. These shows happened in (I think) 2010 and featured the very amazing Talk Normal, The Lovely Eggs, Standard Fare (RIP!) and Hotpants Romance. We also organised a really dancey gig for Bearsuit in Sheffield but I can't ind the flyer for it!

What We've Been up to from May - Early August

Time for a bit of catching up! From May to early August we...

Held our first Typical Girls open meeting at Kro Bar.

Talked to the University of Manchester's feminist society, Riveters, about our plans for Typical Girls and how we could network with other Manchester / Salford based feminist groups.

DJ'd at Make Do and Dance at The Thirsty Scholar. Also at Make Do and Dance were the amazing Cherryade Records talking about "How to Start an Indie Label" as well as an open mic and stalls by For Books Sake.

We went on the wonderful All.FM Anything Goes Breakfast Show with Fiona Ledgard. We talked about feminism and Typical Girls as well as playing loads of our favourite female fronted music! You can have a listen to the show here.

Our first night at Wählbar went amazingly well and we raised nearly £500 for Manchester Rape Crisis! We had amazing sets by ILL, Rose Clout and Rachel Whatever as well as a stall by For Books Sake

DJ'd at the afterparty of What It Feels Like, an exhibition of women artists at Bankley Mill Studios. The afterparty was at the Klondyke Club in Levenshulme, a really lovely venue that we'd never been to before! The bands playing the afterparty were great as well, especially the late addition Los Cripis from Argentina!

Started looking for slightly bigger venues for our second night and ended up with the wonderfully DIY friendly Star & Garter.