Today’s Advent Calendar treat comes from another of the fantastic blogs & promoters who we teamed up with for the online Balcony Festival events that raised thousands of pounds for good causes. They’ve been back on the live scene with their own festival and released a fantastic charity single this year. They’ve provided us with four tracks for today’s calendar.
As always, the tracks are completely free to download and there’s no need to sign up to any mailing lists to access the songs (though if you’d like to you can join ours here), but if you’re enjoying the tunes we’d love you to make a donation to the wonderful charity Women’s Aid.
Let’s find out who’s bringing the tunes…
DIY collective LOUD WOMEN have continued their outstanding work championing women in music through their blog, gigs and the return of LOUD WOMEN FEST. This year’s festival, their fifth, was at Venue 229 in London and featured an array of fantastic bands and artists including Piney Gir, Breakup Haircut, Deux Furieuses and many more that we’ve featured in these pages. Applications for bands to perform at the 2022 edition of the festival are now open – click here to find out how to apply.
We’ll hand over to LOUD WOMEN’s Cassie Fox to introduce today’s Advent Calendar downloads.
Released this summer for Women’s Aid – a song of solidarity in the face of increased male violence against women on the streets, and behind closed doors. The song brought together 64 vocalists from the LOUD WOMEN network, the credits reading like a Who’s Who of the feminist DIY scene. Find out more about the song, and make a Christmas donation to Women’s Aid here.
Download ‘Reclaim These Streets‘
I Am HER – Heretic
This track is the struggle of dealing with a person that makes you feel bad about yourself when you are pretty good at doing that anyway and all you did was love them. It is the fight back to self love and self worth and the casting aside of things that bring you down. ‘Heretic’ should have been released as a single but never was (though it’s on the album Herstory).
Download ‘Heretic‘
Follow I am HER on Facebook
Sulk 93 – The Eyes In The Wall (written, recorded and performed by She17music‘s Kimmi Watson)
Exploring the stuff of nightmares and paranoid hallucinations, the song is inspired by The Yellow Wallpaper, a short story by Catherine Perkins Gillman. It was originally released digitally on the Pants on Fire EP, in December 2020.
Download ‘The Eyes In The Wall‘
Follow Sulk 93 on Facebook
I, Doris – In The Ladies
Ever been on a big night out and ended up spending an hour in the loo – making a whole bunch of new friends? This song is dedicated to all those lovely drunk girls in bathrooms we’ve met/been over the years! This is the lead single from our new mini-album – I, Doris – which is out now on Bandcamp (read their track by track guide to the album here).
Download ‘In The Ladies‘
Find out more on I, Doris’ official website
If you enjoy today’s tracks, please consider making a donation to Women’s Aid
Come back tomorrow for more exclusive tracks + check out the tracks from previous windows, all of which are still available to download:
#1: Piney Gir – Everybody Knows It’s Christmas
#2: Lost Map Records
Gordon McIntyre – You and Me and The Ghosts of Christmas Past
#3: Hey You Guys! – I’m Sorry
Peter With Rosie – The Oxen
Peter Richard Adams – The Roaring Twenties
#4: Salt The Snail – Matador Print
#5: Dead Horse – Eating The Reindeer
#6: Blang Records
Sergeant Buzfuz – In The Bleak Midwinter
Paul Hawkins (Awkward Silences) – Christmas Doesn’t Love Me
Faux Fibbers – All The Nutters Come Out At Christmas
#7: The Scaramanga Six – Dog Form
#8: Hatcham Social – If You Go Down To The Woods Today (Three Cheers for Our Team)
#9: Alcopop! Records
Beach Riot – Modern Dinosaur
Frauds – Woke Life
Tokky Horror – Eden on Acid
#10: The Mining Co. – Last Stop for Tired Reindeer
#11: Sonic Tonic
Firestations – Long Year City
The Leaf Library – Tired Ghost
Shattercones – In The Bleak Midwinter
Maggie The Cat – The Cherry Tree Carol
Naomi In Blue – Colour of Blue
#12: Cruel Nature Records
Distant Animals – Hyperacusis
Omnibael – The Repetition
#13: The Fades – People In General
Silent Star – To Hell or Hackney (Too Late)
#14: Reckless Yes Records
Paper Birch – Summer Daze (Mild Peril Remix)
Nervous Twitch – You Ruined Christmas + Boredom & Distraction
Bitch Hunt – Shapeshifter
LIINES – Keep On Going
Duck – Santa Claus (ft. Charley Stone)
Hearts Beating In Time – Simone’s
The Crystal Furs – Drinking Alone On Christmas
French for Rabbits – Money or The Bag (Alternative Live Version)
Japan Review – Lose Them All
#15: Dedstrange Records
Plattenbau – Hollywood
Data Animal – Future Primitive
Jealous – K-Hole
Lunacy – Dust
A Place To Bury Strangers – Let’s See Each Other (Grimoose Remix)
Wah Together – Sayonara
#16: Another Christmas: ESKA & Duke Garwood – Silent Night
#17: Bird’s Robe Records
Furnace & the FUndamentals – Giving In The Name Of
Toehider – Carol of The Bells
clayhands – Polars
#18: Joyzine writers
Wonderland – Vampyre
Skylon – Adeline
Maps & Muir – All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit
#19: Buds & Spawn
Emergence Collective – division iii
Michael Woodman – Petrichor
New Ghost – Burning Out (Live Lockdown Session)
#20: The Kunts – A Lonely Wank In a Travelodge
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