DON’T NEED YOU: NEW RIOT GRRRL DOCO
October 23rd 2006 10:20
'Us punk rock whores don't need you' - Bikini Kill
Don’t Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl is a new documentary by Kerri Koch, featuring interviews with key players in the movement such as Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna, Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker, Bratmobile’s Allison Wolfe, and token male Ian Mackay of Minor Threat and Fugazi. There’s also plenty of rare archival material to get Riot Grrrl geeks everywhere salivating.
I don’t know about you, but when I was a teenager in the ‘90s, the music of Bikini Kill really opened me up to the feminist movement and the fact that girls could rock. Here was a band that confronted me with some really hard to swallow truths about gender inequality and the responsibilities of being a male; and it was some of the nastiest, dirtiest, noisiest punk rock that came out in the ‘90s to boot.
Don’t Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl is available here at the Urban Cowgirl website and there’s a trailer there for your viewing pleasure. I’m sure the doco will be hitting our Antipodean shores soon (I hope). If this is anywhere near as good as the American Hardcore documentary, it’ll be a must for those who aren’t afraid of a little grit in their punk rock.
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