We had to bring in a consultant to tell us how many women were on this lineup - the only one they could see was on the bottom row.
That being said, it is genuinely impressive how many men they found considering the number of pop-punk artists having been outed as pedophiles in recent years. Top marks!
In a move widely regarded by industry heads as ‘top sneaky’, WR Fest has decided to hide half of their lineup, presumably to avoid criticism from dance music’s hottest new influencers Women Allergy Club. Unfortunately for them, we’ve seen through their ruse and are calling them out anyway. Shazbat!
One redeeming factor is that if Zomby does his party trick of not showing up to his own gig, that’ll at least help the man / woman ratio on the lineup!
Moovin Festival are having a 1-day warmup mini festival barn party before the main event (linup TBA). The fact that we can only count two women on the lineup nonwithstanding, the branding for this is truly excellent. They really are moovin mad (geddit?)
At least there’s Vibes eh?
A lot of the promoters we’ve spoken about on this page seem to be at an absolute loss of where you can find women / gender minority DJs. At Women Allergy Club we love to lend a helping hand to these poor promoters suffering with womanitis.
So here is our Bad Binch Spotlight - where once a week we will post about a collective we consider to be bad binches. The Beatriarchy started in reaction to music groups being very man-heavy and they wanted a space which centres women and gender minorities in music.
They consitantly promote DJs from a range of experiences and identities and recently did a 🔥 f i r e 🔥 takeover on Threads Radio. Go check them out!
A recent comment from a promoter highlighed on our page was that, while they would love to book more women, they’re all unavailable due to the exclusivity contracts artists sign with Parklife’s sister organisation, The Warehouse Project. Unfortunately for them, it seems like this argument doesn’t hold much weight as Parklife aren’t booking them either - The Guardian reports that 7 in ten acts on the lineup are men.
None of this should come as a surprise to anyone familiar with dance music’s premier capitalist and Parklife founder Sacha Lord, who previously blocked one of our admins on Instagram for daring to question how exclusivity contracts are in any way good for the scene. There’s always next year, eh Sacha?
The Isle of Wight festival has, unfortunately, survived the pandemic and is back for 2021. Headlining is, er, Liam Gallagher, Snow Patrol, David Guetta and Duran Duran?
Quite frankly this lineup is so bizarre we can’t even begin to write jokes about it. The longer you look the weirder it gets.
Yesterday we received a message on our site from a member of staff at a festival that will remain nameless. In case you haven’t seen it, the message reads as follows:
Dear Sir/Madam,
We have recently been informed through instagram of a number of slanderous posts, in an attempt to smear our organisation. These claims are baseless, as many of the senior roles in our company are occupied by women. Instead of playing the victim card, why dont you try to enact your own change? If the contents pertaining our company, are not immediately removed - we will be forced to take legal action and contact the correct legal authorities.
Best Wishes,
[Upset Festival]
[Upset Festival] left an email address that we tried to contact, but unfortunately the email bounced so we’ve decided to put our response here in the hope that they’ll see it. Upset Festival, if you’re reading this, please shoot us an email at [title of this blog]@protonmail.com and we’ll happily engage you in more private discussions.
To anyone thinking of sharing this, please don’t mention any festivals by name. Thanks!
Hi [Upset Festival],
We were very entertained by your message, and were thrilled to find that our message has made it all the way to one of the UK’s biggest festivals! We just had a couple of issues with the content of it, which we’ll try and go through in the order in which you brought them up.
As per our limited understanding of the law, in order for a statement to be slanderous, it can’t be true. We’ve counted, twice, the artists on your website, and have concluded that you have booked six women: Anna, Charlotte de Witte, Hannah Wants, La Fleur, Nina Kraviz, and Peggy Gou. The only other statements we made regarding your festival are that the total number of acts currently announced is 89, and that one of these acts is Scooter. If you can provide any evidence that any of these three statements are untrue, we will gladly retract them and issue a public statement of apology.
The bio of our Instagram page says that we’re “[r]aising awareness for promoters who are allergic to booking women and gender minorities”, and if we’re interpreting your message correctly, you say that this doesn’t apply to [Upset Festival] as many of the senior roles within your organisation are occupied by women. Unfortunately, we’re not campaigning for more events management roles to be filled by women, we’re campaining for more artist roles to be filled by women, a metric by which we believe your festival has failed dramatically. It is also worth noting that this seems to be a view held by Mixmag, a publication in which I have seen full-page [Upset Festival] advertisments being printed, so you may want to consult internally before threatening us with legal action.
The last thing we wanted to clarify was that you seemed to want us to, er, enact our own change. Respectfully, what do you think our Instagram page is trying to do?
We eagerly await your response.
Kind regards,
Women Allergy Club
