'Howd'you grow a girl. In this world.' Feminism will never be enough, To stop a girl from wanting love.'
Rock & Roll was not invented in 1955. It had precedents. Rock & Roll figures. Oscar Wilde. Aubrey Beardsley. Byron. Shelley. It's not as if we're the only people ever to recognise what it feels like to young.
Mary Wollstencraft. A precursor for Ari Up. The wife of William Godwin. The mother of Mary Shelley. But most of all Mary Wollstencraft. A writer, philospher and product of enlightenment scourge of patriarchal Georgian society..Pioneer of women's rights.
Still important these ideas. More important than ever given the state of the world and the game. So here's Billy Nomates with a excellent new record. Mary & the Hyenas. Wollstencraft was famously derided by Horace Walpole as' a hyena in petticoats'.An indication of the naked fear her ideas must have invited.
Anyhow, the record. A soundtrack for a theatrical production and an imaginary band. A fascinating and groovy record full of ideas and valuable provocation. I haven't discussed the ideas brought up here in any depth. They're really oirth delving into. The tunes are fab too.
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