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Abandon Your Tutu 

Babs Millington; Ruth Novaczek; Jackie Freeman; Sandra Brown (pictured) plus p j Baker and various others.

AYT used eclectic mayhem to build a bizarre music that is textural and rhythmic. Founded on themes and motifs ranging from gunslinger Annie Oakley to 70s TV heroine Emma Peel via Dadaist poetry and New York no-wave, AYT play musical chairs with instruments that include plastic guitars, old cornets, dustbin lids, accordions, a gu-cheng, a kazoo,
which buzz and whirl around a basis of drums, bass and synth or guitar, bumped up to psychedelic incoherence with echo and reverb.

Art school punk with a wry edge, scholarly, brash, and iconoclastic AYT took performance and cabaret and mixed it with sham-pop and post-punk in a collaborative process that produced surprisingly ‘popular’ theme tunes, performed with an anarchic sabotage of girl-band aesthetics and feminist politics. Eschewing the more conservative folk and rock of the womens music scene of the time, AYT made the rules on their own terms; throwaway,
performative and crazy, the magic was in the moment, an improvisational art-punk that celebrated lo-res hybridity and outlaw irreverence. ~ Jackie Freeman and Ruth Novaczek

Abandon Your Tutu gigs (1983-4): Sprout Conspiracy Club – Pindar of Wakefield, Greenham Common benefit, the Clarendon, Hammersmith, London Musicians Collective (women’s clubnight and LMC women’s festival), Roots Club, Leeds, Women’s City – the Bell pub in Kings Cross, Chat’s Palace, benefit for La Pluma magazine, “September in the Pink” festival – 3 gigs – Heaven, The Fridge (Brixton) + Chat’s Palace, Bush Hotel, “Outrage” benefit at London School of Economics, Greenham benefit at North London Poly

 

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Amy and the Angels 1980 ~ ?

Stef Petticoat, vocals, guitar;
 Angie, drums; Linda/Sue: bass

‘I Hate Being in Love’ – Amy and the Angels

Hackney, London

Played several gigs in England and Germany

Recordings:
I Hate Being in Love on Making Waves LP (Girlfriend Records, 1981); Words fail me + interview, The English Programme, Thames Television, 1982; more bits and pieces on tapes, to be re-discovered…

 

 

 

The Making Waves compilation album: 1 Belles – You Told Me a Lie  2 Amy & The Angels – I Hate Being in Love  3 Ministry of Marriage – Twin  4 Tango Twins – Life Support  5 Nancy Boys – So Easy  6 Sisterhood of Spit – Hold Tight  7 Gymslips – Midnight City  8 Mistakes – Romance  9 Androids of Mu – Bored Housewives  10 Guest Stars – Sometimes the Blues is Right  11 Real Insects – In the Ruins of Your Body  12 Rock Goddess – Make My Night

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Androids of Mu 1980

Anarcho punk / post punk band based in London and formed in 1980 after the breakup of the band Here & Now.

Suze, vocals; Corina, guitar, vocals; Cosmic, synth, bass, tambourine, vocals; Birsen, bass, vocals.