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New picture from “Shout Out To My Ex”

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Daryl Hannah in Splash (1984)

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Ellie Goulding’s cover of Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” was produced and recorded by our own Joe Kearns. 

Adding her mystical vibes whilst still retaining the grit of the original, it’s sorrowful and raw. It’s addictive. It’s everything. You should probably listen to it.

#ellie goulding #joe kearns #take me to church #hozier

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It’s a new dawn...

The Day Job are very excited to announce our new website, along with some new additions to our roster. Please join us in welcoming Neil Tucker, Sam Wheat and Joe Kearns.

http://www.thedayjob.com/

#oscars #producers #joe kearns #neil tucker #sam wheat #ellie goulding #will.i.am #john legend

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What would music festival posters look like if they included only the bands featuring female musicians?

The people at Pixable photoshopped all the male-only bands off these posters and it’s a stark difference. Thanks to She Shreds for sharing this!

So which music festivals ARE good at booking lots of women-fronted bands? We profiled a bunch right here.

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#dolly parton #pj harvey #madonna #patti smith #dusty springfield #joni mitchell #aretha franklin #janis joplin #amy winehouse #cat power

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How to Glastonbury

Going to Glastonbury for the first time is like losing your virginity. You spend two hours putting the tent poles in the wrong place, someone gets too drunk and has to finish early and you need to take a long shower the minute you get home. Glastonbury is not like any other festival, it has a unique language – you will experience things unlike anything witnessed at whatever beer-sponsored festival you attended last Summer.

If this is is your first time going to the best festival in the world, here’s your guide:

YOU WILL WALK FOR MILES

Once you’ve carted a 24-crate of Fosters, a tent, and all your insecurities across several fields and set up camp, get ready to walk even more. Glastonbury - unlike most festivals which involve a separate arena and campsite - is an amorphous dreamland. Tents, stages, and boutique massage parlours all become one and to get around you’re going to walk like you’re in an unconsented reinterpretation of that annoying song by The Proclaimers. So - what do you do? Obviously make sure you’ve got a good pair of shoes. Maybe go for a walk around your entire city the evening before. Work those hamstrings baby. Just don’t be that person who complains to all their friends because Shangri-La is a 40 minute walk from your bed.

DON’T BE A FUCKING DICK

The worst people in the whole of Glastonbury are the ones that go round sniggering at the “crusties” and people with fire poi before heading over to the Park Stage to get “vibey” to Jagwar Ma while sipping on a £10 cocktail. You know what arseholes: this festival belongs to the crusties and the fire poi guys, you are the tourist at their house party.

Glastonbury basically started as a gathering of those opposed to nuclear arms and destroying the environment, and while it’s become heavily sanitised over the years, that old guard are still running shit. So if you get invited into a tipi by someone called Astral to hear about how the world would be better if we destroyed mobile phones and why flouride in the water is calcifying your imagination gland, just go with it. They wouldn’t come round to your house and take the piss out of your back catalogue of Tony Parsons books. 

DON’T DO ANY DRUGS IN THE MAIN ARENA

Each year some sort of Glastonbury virgin decides to take every drug they can get their hands on and walk towards the Pyramid Stage at 3pm in the afternoon. This is not a bad thing; it’s what makes watching John Newman bearable. But it is the worst decision. You’re at Glastonbury where there are literally thousands of small-tents playing hard pystrance, circuses full of strange-looking people, and little areas where you can make aliens out of clay - the place was built for enjoying hallucinogenics - and you’re choosing to watch someone that your Mam has on her gym playlist? Get out there and make the most of it - don’t waste your drugs because you feel you have to chaperone your friend into the 1975’s set. Ditch them and go visit Wonderland, you mucilaginous individual.

ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE STONE CIRCLE

The stone circle, like wearing loose-fitting comfortable hareem pants or having sex on MDMA, is one of those things that’s easy to dismiss as hippy nonsense until your realise just how great it is. It provides a weird sort of full stop to the festival - no matter how lost you get, which drugs you took, or what weird corner of the circus field you ended up in, you all make the long slow trudge up the hill, where you’ll find your friends, passed out in each other’s arms, sucking on balloons and just generally acting like the sort of monged out jokers you normally only see on park benches. Comedowns only feel shit when you spend them alone trying to get to sleep, so just head up to stone circle, climb into the arms of the nearest person you recognise, watch the sunrise, and have a lovely chat about how we’re tiny somethings in a giant something and blah blah blah blah blah.

DON’T GO AND WATCH KASABIAN

Kasabian play the closing slot on the Pyramid Stage. Take a moment to reconsider: do you really want your Glastonbury concluded with the line “Horsemeat in the burgers, people commit murders, everyone’s on bugle, we’re being watched by Google”?  If the answer to that question is “yes” then HI KEITH ALLEN.

GET DOWN EARLY

Most festivals only offer early-bird camping to ensure even more money is spent on over-priced beer, but Glastonbury has a whole host of entertainment on the two days before the music starts. This time should not be wasted sitting outside your tent, shotgunning cans of Tuborg, and shouting abuse at passers-by - you’re not at Reading Festival. Instead use the two days to really explore the festival site; find out where the drinking water is, discover the “secret spots” that people on Time Out always talk about, and sit on top of the giant hill. Glastonbury requires a complete rewiring of your personality and lifestyle and that takes a few days of acclimatisation.

GET A FUCKING YOGHURT FOR BREAKFAST

Seriously. They’re ridiculously cheap - something like £3 - they’re healthy, they help you shit out all the drugs, and they come in three flavours: Strawberry, Peach, and one that I haven’t tried because it was probably plain. Either way you’ll find the yoghurt stall near the Pyramid Stage and you’ll be able to tell it’s a yoghurt stall because it has a big sign that says Yeo Valley. Thank me later. 

* this post is not sponsored by Yeo Valley, I’m just a big fan.

DON’T PLAN TO WATCH HUNDREDS OF BANDS

In London you’ll pay money to watch Jus Now - at Glastonbury you’ll just sort of forget. The most important thing to remember is that you haven’t paid money to watch bands; you’ve paid money to be part of an experience. Suck it up - it sounds pretentious but if you don’t get over yourself and jump in at the deep-end then your whole weekend will be diluted like a glass of squash at a preschool that has just had their budget cut. Ignore the Bristol hockey lads and trainee policeman on their way to watch Route 94 - watch the three bands you actually want to see and let the fun-train carry you around everywhere else.

BUT SOMEHOW END UP IN ONE NIGHT-TIME PLACE

Yes - you don’t want to plan your weekend. Let the substitute teachers and recruitment officers jettison the half-an-hour walk between the BBC Introducing and Park stage, leaving more room for you to discuss the persecution of Tanzanian albinos over a cup of Masala chai in the Permaculture retreat, or wherever it is you’ve ended up. But that’s not to say you shouldn’t meander toward new areas once the sun sets. Arcadia, Block 9, Shangri-La - Glastonbury is full of places that will make you question why most other UK festivals night-time entertainment consists of huffing laughing gas in a tent and a rollercoaster that sounds like it’s about to fall down. don’t need to plan when you arrive - it’s there all weekend. But when you finally stumble in, bleary-eyed and caked in mud, prepare to be subjected to 50,000 watts of power. 

LEAVE THE HEADLINERS EARLY

As soon as the headliners finish there’s a mass exodus: everyone leaves the mainstage and visits Shangri-La. Because Shangri-La is -  approximately - quite a bit smaller than the main-stage, there’s usually a massive queue. This will destroy whatever buzz you’re currently on because you won’t be able to move, you can hear thousands of people having fun elsewhere, and you’re just about to come-up. So, how do you avoid rushing while you’re stuck outside the gate to the best party on-site? Obviously you leave the headliner an hour early. Why were you even watching Metallica in the first place?!

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“It’s not important to me to make other people at ease. I am difficult, but that’s because I don’t really give a fuck.” Amy Winehouse 1983-2011

#amy winehouse

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“Ceremonials was so fixated on death and water, and the idea of escape or transcendence through death, but the new album became about trying to learn how to live, and how to love in the world rather than trying to escape from it. Which is frightening because I’m not hiding behind anything but it felt like something I had to do.”

#florence welch #florence + the machine #how big how blue how beautiful

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Kate Nash’s Girl Gang: the online community for today’s riot grrrls

Musician Kate Nash explains the impetus for her new YouTube channel, conceived as a meeting place for a new generation of likeminded feminists

Kate Nash: “The internet has exploded in ways that most of us couldn’t have imagined – and even at 27, I feel like I fall fast behind the teenagers of 2015. Tumblr is the new teenage bedroom wall: a perfect place to express yourself, an eternal stream of images and ideas. Combine that with a lot of girls’ desire to craft, scrapbook and stay up till the early hours thinking about feelings, and you can see why the internet has helped facilitate the comeback of a pro-feminine scene such as riot grrrl. It’s also why I set up Girl Gang, an online YouTube community for feminist girls, boys, women and men who want to learn new skills, share ideas, inspire others and seek self-confidence.

It was my early experiences of sexism in the music industry that gave me a strong thirst for the female voice, though. I searched the internet and old record shops for female punk icons, and soon discovered riot grrrl. Listening to Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna gave me the confidence I needed to get up on stage and be photographed every night on tour. I started my own zine, and riot grrrl became a huge part of my identity. Punk may have helped me find my voice and made me realise that I had the right to have one, but it was riot grrrl that helped me sustain that voice and shout a little louder.  

Hopefully, Girl Gang will be a place where people can find solace, too. As well as doling out great life tips, such as how to foster a dog or play the guitar, the channel is an online community full of people from around the world who support one another. It’s symptomatic of our time: girls are much more prone to encourage each other in 2015. They stick up for each other, and the internet gives us a globally interactive Wild West in which to discuss what we want, without a man overseeing it. We’ve realised the power of the internet, and the strength in working together." 

Read the full piece here

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LoneLady has just released a new single! ‘Bunkerpop’ is the second single taken from the upcoming album 'Hinterland’. The single is full of infectious beats and electronic tones that will leave you breathless.