Published in 1997
243 pages
Liz Evans is an award-winning writer and academic from Britain, currently based in lutruwita/Tasmania. During the 1990s, she profiled some of the world’s biggest rock stars, and was one of the few women reporting on Seattle’s music scene from the early days. Writing mainly for Kerrang!, she also contributed to Melody Maker, NME, The Guardian, i-D, The Independent, New Statesman, London Standard, Elle, Ikon, Vox and Select. In 1994, she published Women, Sex and Rock ‘n’Roll: In Their Own Words, a collection of interviews with musicians including Kim Gordon, Kat Bjelland, Bjork, Tori Amos, Miki Berenyi, Marianne Faithfull, and Siobhan Fahey, among others, which was the first in a clutch of books focusing on female rock culture. She followed this up in 1997 with an anthology of rock reportage by women writers, titled Girls Will Be Boys.
Since emigrating to Australia, Liz has contributed to Dumbo Feather, Island magazine, Womankind, Lunch Lady, and TasWeekend, and currently reviews novels for The Conversation. She is an Adjunct Researcher at the University of Tasmania where she teaches creative writing and other English and Writing courses, and holds a PhD in Creative Writing. She has been awarded two Varuna fellowships and a third at the Katherine Susan Prichard Writer’s centre, as well as an Education Residency from Arts Tasmania.
What is this book about?
Ever since rock culture has been recorded in print, the male pen has dominated. This book reflects the female perspective of the development of rock culture in the 1990s. It contains a collection of articles by female journalists about men in rock and about some of the women who have taken them on.
