Greenham Common
1985
“The Women's Big Band had a link during the 1980s
with the anti-nuclear movement, there was input from women involved
with the protests at Greenham Common, ‘Oh you generals in the military,
what’re your atom bombs for?’ with a brass backing, that was all fun. I
was down at Greenham, there were plenty of lesbians there, we were
routinely accused of all being lesbians, and being there because we
were lesbians….it was meant to put people against us, and that came out
in songs where we ‘took the p***’ out of the ideas that we were all
lesbians and it didn’t matter anyway and who the hell cares.”
Contributed by: Belinda, 60