Commemorating and celebrating some late, great women musicians, much mourned and missed
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Alaine
Died 1974
Guitarist, London Women’s Liberation Rock Band
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Ari Up
1962 ~ 2010
The Slits
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/21/ari-up-obituary
The writer Janine Bullman has kindly shared with us her 2009 cover story on the Slits from the music magazine ‘Loud and Quiet,’ which she thinks may contain the last interview with Ari Up. The piece is available to read online here: http://www.loudandquiet.com/2010/01/the-slits/
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Bernice Cartwright
1958 ~ 2001
Bass guitarist
To read a tribute to Bernice written for her funeral by her sister Deirdre, please click here: Bernice Kathleen Cartwright ~ and click here to see Bernice Cartwright’s obituary from the Richmond & Twickenham Times
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Dinah Jeffrey
1955 ~ 2005
Lottie & Ada, Caroline Gilfillan Band
photo donated by Cathy Jeffrey
To read a tribute to Dinah from her sister Cathy, click tribute to Dinah from Camden School magazine
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Joan Challenger
Saxophonist, Passing Faze
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Josie Mitten
1957 ~ 2000
Singer, pianist, Jam Today, One Night Stand, Passing Faze
1977
You can hear some songs written and played by Josie in the 1980s here:
‘Cool Blue’
‘Straight Down the Line’
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Poly Styrene
1957 ~ 2011
‘Some people say little girls should be seen and not heard, but I say, Oh bondage, up yours!’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/26/poly-styrene-obituary
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Ramona Swale
1933 ~ 1996
Ramona Swale in Streatham in the 1960s (c) VAL WILMER collection
‘… with her spectacular piano playing … Ramona amazed everyone who heard her: according to veteran trumpeter Reg Service, who worked with her in The Mike Daniels Big Band, she played “just like Oscar Peterson”.’ ~ (c) Val Wilmer, ‘The Wire’ Issue 331, September 2011 
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Shauna Brown
~ 1994
Lottie & Ada
