Babes in Toyland
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Essay by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, 1991
ROCK AND ROLL is being hijacked by angry girls with electric guitars. Tired of playing airbrushed pop dollies for salivating male voyeurs, women on ...
Babes in Toyland: Mean Fiddler, London
Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 22 June 1991
AS YET ANOTHER lame-brain shuffles nervously before taking the plunge, the anti-stage-diving lobby have a point for once. In the context of Babes In Toyland's ...
Babes in Toyland: Wench Warfare
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 29 June 1991
Championed by Sonic Youth and John Peel, hot-blooded all-girl 'foxcore' grunge-rockers BABES IN TOYLAND are coming to your house, sneezing explosively, dissing moms and men ...
Reading '91: Reading, Writhing And Riffmatic
Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 7 September 1991
FRIDAY: IT WAS obvious, really – he had to say it. Who better than His Supreme Iggyness Of Pop, the Godfather of (s)punk rock, to ...
Babes In Toyland, Gallon Drunk, Leatherface: Astoria, London
Live Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 4 January 1992
THOUGH FRANKIE Stubbs later said he found the football field-sized stage spaces "too tiring", Leatherface appeared to thrive on this bigger platform. Guitarist Richie Hammond's ...
Overview by Keith Cameron, Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 4 January 1992
It's the dawning of a new earache! Jakki Brambles is playing Daisy Chainsaw! Your parents have heard of Nirvana! Geffen are chasing Mudhoney! Madonna's into ...
Babes In Toyland: The Astoria, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 11 January 1992
IF WE'RE TO have anger in rock, then let it boil like this. Babes In Toyland's fury is intimidating. They were never more than a ...
Overview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 15 March 1992
WHILE ROCK'N'ROLL abounds with angry young men, female rage has always been a scarce commodity. There's been the gleeful anarchy of the Slits, Patti Smith's ...
Report and Interview by Betty Page, New Musical Express, 9 May 1992
HIPS, LIPS, TITS, POWER! Meet the new breed of enchantress, the spell-binding women who are taking the male bastille and giving it some earthily female ...
Babes In Toyland: A Fête Worse Than Death
Report and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 15 August 1992
Rumble rumble rumble... whizz "WHAAAAHH!"And that's just listening to the new BABES IN TOYLAND album, long before EDWIN POUNCEY went anywhere near a rollercoaster with ...
Pieces Of Hate: Babes In Toyland: Fontanelle (Southern/All formats)
Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 22 August 1992
JUST AS THE word "love" is now virtually meaningless, its intensity sapped by decades of everyday misuse, so too has "hate" become an emotion too ...
Babes in Toyland: Marquee, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 5 September 1992
SHRIEK LIKE A CHILD ...
Babes in Toyland: Year of the Kat
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 November 1992
Kat Bjelland's penchant for purging her emotions brings Babes in Toyland to the brink of alternative rock stardom ...
Babes In Toyland: Painkillers (Reprise)
Review by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 15 July 1993
HOLE'S COURTNEY Love, L7's Jennifer Finch and Babes in Toyland's Kat Bjelland joined onstage in the Frisco band Sugar Babylon in the mid '80s. But while ...
Babes In Toyland: Rock And Roll Babes
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Vox, August 1993
Deposit your 'feminist rock' preconceptions at the door, pigeonhole fans. Babes In Toyland were playing raucous licks long before the Riot Grrrls left finishing school... ...
Babes In Toyland: Forum, London
Live Review by Ngaire Ruth, Melody Maker, 2 October 1993
TOYS R U.S. ...
The Carpenters: Chips off the old block
Report and Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, 25 August 1994
The Carpenters are hip — and that's official. Andy Gill on the indie world's unexpectedly heartfelt tribute to Karen and Richard Carpenter ...
Babes In Toyland: Garage, Glasgow
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 27 May 1995
THEY MAY be down, but the Babes come out fighting. Battling lukewarm reviews for their patchy new album and general indifference to grungular yank yowling, ...
Babes In Toyland: The Boardwalk, Manchester
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 27 May 1995
I MISS Ligament cos (I was gonna come up with an excuse as contrived as my mate, who was late for school one day cos ...
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