We welcome contributions of material. If you are one of the women involved in musical and related projects which were part of, or inspired by, the Women’s Liberation Movement – instrumentalists, vocalists, sound technicians, recording engineers, roadies, distribution networks, audience members, photographers, journalists, events and venue organisers, DJs, MCs, etc – we’d love to hear from you.
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from ‘Sisters in Song’ © WLM Music Projects
The Women's Liberation Music Archive 
The Mistakes, Oxford.
The highlight of my years in the City.
I have such love and respect for each woman..and gratitude actually. Bad times there were eased by their straight talking songs.
I loved them.
Just got The Mistakes Live at the Carribbean Club LP.
(No record player though!)
Simply out of the joy of having a piece of that time.
I’d love to know how Georgina is..last I heard, she was in Bristol.
Powerful music of the time..No Man’s Land!
I recall such brilliant women around my life.
Sent with love & warmth.
hi Kay – I will pass this message onto George as she does indeed live in Bristol – I know she will be happy to read your comment. Will also pass on your email address so you can hopefully reconnect. All the best Deborah
Oh Deborah, that would be great. Thank you!
Kay x
I agree. Best song ever ‘No Man’s Land’ by George.
I would love to hear it again.
My copy of ‘Women in Song’ and ‘No Man’s Land’ went awol .
Me too Diane. The women of Oxford had discos (Jane Lewis??) called No Man’s Land. I remember the Sheffield Steelworkers came .. brilliant!
Whilst not all-women bands, there were a number of Anarcho-punk bands during the 1980s who pursued a feminist agenda, including Crass (particularly the album ‘Penis Envy’), Poison Girls, Rubella Ballet and Hagar The Womb – would be great to see these bands included in the archive! Good luck with the project, Graham
Thanks Graham! We decided to focus on women musicians in this archive to highlight and celebrate women’s achievements and also for reasons of space and time – but we do of course include women who played and sang with mixed groups – and we would love it if someone developed this archiving work to document the mixed anti-sexist bands from the alternative/punk/indy scene of that era! We’ve always hoped someone might take up the baton and create another site … any takers?