Women’s Music: Touring
1977
Women’s Music: Touring:
“Oh and tours! The Chris Williamson tour,
Alex Dobkin, Holly Near, Sweet Honey in the Rock tour! Meg Christian,
and Kay Gardener and Judy Small (who is Australian, and the rest are
American). I don’t drive and constantly had to find nice friends to
take me. Oh God, and fortunately I could always find someone at a loose
end who was happy to do it for no money but the excitement of getting
into the concert, some free albums, a tour sweatshirt, I’d buy them
meals, and we stayed in people’s houses so it was all gloriously
make-shift. The sheer adrenalin from when everyone pours out of a
concert fired up with this wonderful time they’ve had and desperate to
take it away with them, half of them will probably never play the album
again, it doesn’t matter, they want to buy something to take away with
them. Being able to do that at that sort of speed, and if the money and
the stock-take added up at the end of the day – it was very intense and
great fun”.
Contributed by: Caroline Hutton, 51