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Ignore us? Just try. Why punk's riot grrrls will never go quietly


Ignore us? Just try. Why punk’s riot grrrls will never go quietly
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For then-teenaged punk guitarist, Sarah Blaby, landing her first live gig with the band Hecate as the support for Melbourne indie heroes The Dirty Three meant starting at the top.
As a student of Collingwood’s Rock’n’Roll High School, Melbourne’s fabled launching pad for girls keen to hone their rock credentials and technical skills and grab their slice of Australia’s pumping ’90s live scene, that kind of entry carried heavy promise of things to come. ....

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Girls to the front: how Australia's rock'n'roll high school evolved – with help from Courtney Love | Music


Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 21.04 EST
Sometime in the mid-1990s, at around four in the morning, Melbourne music teacher Stephanie Bourke’s phone rang. It was Courtney Love, the lead singer of Hole. One of the students at Bourke’s famed Rock’n’Roll High School, Brody Dalle – who would go on to fame with the Distillers – had come to Love’s attention.
“The first thing she said was, ‘How many girls have you got down there who sound exactly like me?’ I thought it was a prank call! But then she said, ‘I’m going to help you out, I’m going to send you some guitars!’” Love’s manager got in touch, and a few weeks later, seven Fenders arrived in the mail. ....

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