The concert I attended on Saturday night contained an all female rock band, The Donnas. As I saw women in rock was a suggested topic I thought that I would do some research into the frequency of female rock bands. After extensive searching for academic sources I came up with absolutely nothing. Now this band is probably one of the longest running female punk rock band of our time, starting approximately 15 years ago when the girls were only 15. The Americans contintued to pursue their chosen career path with a large amount of success.

Unfortunately, the Donna’s were booed by some of the underage fans who were eagerly awaiting the performance from headline act Kisschasy. As someone who had heard the Donnas before it is hard to believe that the young kids would be so derogatory towards a successful international band however it made me ponder whether the treatment would have been the same if the band had been publicised and published in magazines such as ours? Top 40 artists seem to frequent our pages and get the attention they do and sometimes do not deserve, if we could focus some of our energy into promoting bands that have truly worked hard to be where they are today we could possibly sell more magazines in the future. As I have noted in previous posts it is time for our magazine to raise the bar in the content we provide through some academic research and further interesting, left-field articles.