Hanna tells us she has “a gratitude journal” now, but remains Riot Grrrl-fuelled about the Trump era, rape, abortion, trans rights and Black Lives Matter. Drummer Vail is sick tonight, so Lauren Hammel from Victoria’s Tropical F–k Storm is filling in. Lead singer Hanna wears a khaki green, girly dress with pink punky tights, backed up by Kathi Wilcox on bass and Sara Landeau (from The Julie Ruin) on guitar.
The Forum’s iconic Roman statues look down from the ceiling. Women supporting each otherīikini Kill are killing it during their all-ages gigs at The Forum. Thirty years on, they are all still making music. Recording music since the age of 11 in Iceland, in 1992 Björk left The Sugarcubes, the alternative rock band she co-formed in 1986.ījörk’s first solo album came out in 1993, with huge hits like Human Behaviour about the way humans act and interact.
Her solo electro-pop album The Teaches of Peaches became a feminist classic, with singles like Lovertits. Do-it-yourself ethosĪs Gen X, third-wave feminist icons, Peaches (Merrill Nisker), Bikini Kill and Björk grew up during the punk movements of the 1970s and ’80s.īased in Olympia in Washington State, Bikini Kill was part of the Riot Grrrl movement in the early 1990s, funnelling the do-it-yourself punk ethos into zines, songs like Rebel Girl, and confrontational live shows.īikini Kill encouraged women and girls to start bands as a form of cultural resistance, challenging masculine toxicity long before #MeToo.ĭuring the 1990s in Canada, Nisker formed a Riot Grrrl band, Fancypants Hoodlum.īy 2000, aged 33 and recovering from cancer and a heartbreak, she renamed herself Peaches. Feminism, ageism, sexism, transphobia, racism, capitalism and environmentalism are their musical agenda. These artists, all now aged in their 50s, are popular provocateurs, pulsating with rage. In Perth, a few days later, Björk’s echo-filled, childlike voice is as harrowing and powerful as ever. She later wades into the audience inside a large inflatable penis. The popular sexual exhibitionist is still hoarsely rapping about abortion, and now the debate over the end of Roe vs Wade, with songs like Boys Wanna Be Her.
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