Pigtails and Army Boots: female-fronted internet radio

by Hayley Foster

More and more women are taking control of their music by self-producing or self-promoting. It's not just a feminist stance, it's grass-roots. DJ Moonlight talks about her net radio show, Pigtails and Army Boots featuring female artists only!

If you haven't already heard about it, Pigtails and Army Boots is an internet radio show presented by moi (DJ Moonlight) and is all about female/female-fronted music from many genres, including but not limited to: rock, indie, punk, metal, alternative and 80's pop.

The show currently goes out on two stations: Radiogetswild ( www.radiogetswild.com) and Generation Mix (www.generationmix.co.uk) It hits the airwaves on Sunday mornings (9-11am on Generation Mix - and then another version goes out in the evening 6-8pm on Radio Gets Wild).

I am planning to give you a rundown of my play list as often as I can, and while I'm at give you some recommendations and interesting news!

My play list for last Sunday (14th Oct) on Radio Gets Wild was this:

1. The Sounds- Painted By Numbers
2. Paramore- Crush Crush Crush
3. The Vincent Black Shadow- Fears in the Water
4. The Raveonettes- My Boyfriend's Back
5. Robots in Disguise- You Really Got Me
6. Lallakiss- Slick
7. Everything But The Girl- Missing
8. Suzanne Vega- Tom's Diner
9. Kate Nash- Foundations
10. Feist- 1234
11. Joni Mitchell- Big Yellow Taxi
12. Natalie Imbruglia- Glorious
13. PJ Harvey- When Under Ether
14. KT Tunstall- Hold On
15. Cowboy Junkies- Common Disaster
16. Cardigans- Love fool
17. Deborah Harry- You're too Hot
18. The Gits- While You're Twisting, I'm Still Breathing
19. Horrorpops- Crawl Straight Home
20. Hole- Violet
21. Meredith Brooks- Bitch
22. Working Class Heroes- When You Finally Stop Pretending
23. The Concretes- Kids
24. Shonen Knife- Top of the World
25. Des'ree- You Gotta be
26. Four Non Blondes- What's Up
27. Annie Lennox- Walking on Broken Glass
28. Madonna- Hey You
29. Melissa Etheridge- Come to my Window
30. Portishead- Over
31. The Cranberries- Dreams

There are two unsigned artists you should check out on this list - Lallakiss ( www.myspace.com/Lallakiss) are from Manchester and looking for people to collaborate with. Working Class Heroes ( www.myspace.com/workingclassheroes) are from Cardiff and are a great rock band. They need promotion in places they can't play including here in the UK, so go add them and make them known!

I started a new feature this week; I included a run down of women in the UK charts (although I'm only mentioning the decent ones... Pigtails and Army Boots is a Britney free zone). We had quite a few in the album charts this week: Kate Nash, PJ Harvey, KT Tunstall, Joni Mitchell and Natalie Imbruglia. I've heard all of them, apart from Joni Mitchell and Natalie Imbruglia. The ones I have heard are brilliant, especially Kate Nash. Mind you, I would expect Natalie Imbruglia's to be good as it's a greatest hits.

Another feature I have on my show is album of the month - this week was the second week for Deborah Harry's album "Necessary Evil".

I hope I have given you some ideas for new things to listen to... until next time!

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