UKNY For September 5
The Septembers' Donna Arendse and James Chatburn (photo by Alexander Jason Photography, PR)
If you were looking for female musicians on the bills of some of this summer's major festivals, like Bonnaroo, Reading, Leeds and Lollapalooza, you might have been disappointed to see women so widely outnumbered by their male counterparts. In fact, the Independent even published a chart that showed just how dire the situation was at Reading and Leeds. And had Florence Welch not stepped in for Foo Fighters at Glastonbury, that festival would have had nothing but male headliners on each of its major stages, with the exception of Lamb's Lou Rhodes on the Avalon Stage.
So in the spirit of creating a more estrogen-friendly festival via the radio, tonight's UKNY at 11 is devoted to musicians who happen to be women or female-fronted bands, like Glasgow's Chvrches (led by the anti-bullying activist Lauren Mayberry), Eliot Sumner (daughter of Sting and Trudy Styler), the enigmatic FKA Twigs, and Australian duo The Septembers (pictured).
We'll hear a gorgeous song from Sheffield's Nat Johnson, whose forthcoming EP, Lonesome Lake, is inspired by groundbreaking Greenwich Village songwriter Connie Converse who deliberately disappeared in 1974. There's also a new documentary about Converse, whose whereabouts still remain unknown (she'd be 90 today), called "We Lived Alone" which premiered last fall at Sheffield's Sensoria Festival.
Away for the long weekend? You can catch up to UKNY on demand in the FUV weekend archives up to two weeks after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. Chvrches, “Leave A Trace,” Every Open Eye
2. Gwenno, “Patriarchaeth,” Y Dydd Olaf
3. The Raincoats, “Lola” (Ray Davies/Kinks cover), The Raincoats
4. Eliot Sumner, “Come Friday,” Early Reflections EP
5. PJ Harvey, “C’mon Billy,” To Bring You My Love
6. Stealing Sheep, “This Time,” Not Real
7. FKA Twigs, “In Time,” M3LL155X EP
8. Nocturnal Sunshine, “It’s Alright,” Nocturnal Sunshine
9. Ellie Makes Music, “It’s For The Best,” Are You Listening
10. Sandy Denny & The Strawbs, “Two Weeks Last Summer,” All Our Own Work
11. Matilde Davoli, “Summer Ending,” I’m Calling You From My Dreams
12. Nat Johnson feat. Cornerstone Brass, “Condor,” Lonesome Lake EP
13. Commonwealth Cut (Sydney, Australia): The Septembers feat. Saux, “Work,” single
14. Jessie Ware, “What You Won’t Do For Love” (Bobby Caldwell cover), single
