No, not Peaches Geldof – Peaches. She’s creative, silly and serious, the music is always fabulous, the visuals are stunning, she often uses female musicians on tour (Ms P, feel free to get in touch whenever, okay?), she directs many of her own videos and she really really doesn’t care what...

How did I miss this when it came out? I was chatting to a fellow feminist at a party the other day and we got on to the subject of certain pop lyrics – this is a wonderful reinterpretation of a particularly vile song we discussed, big thanks to...

On Saturday I attended my first protest march: Million Women Rise. I was nervous about going not because I doubted my commitment to the cause – to end male violence against women – but because I have had so many negative experiences of women in the past. It dates back...

With a little help from Margaret Cho: Brilliant, just brilliant, and the immense cheering at the end makes me feel all shivery. There’s a nice short review of the show here as...

- Women of Zimbabwe Arise, Adele not a feminist + Boris Johnson has best hair - I wanna be a London Rollergirl! - Lying about lateness Tomorrow’s my last day on Dollymix, boo! That does mean better service will resume around here after the weekend though, so it’s not all bad news. I...

Today’s posts: - 5 reasons to love Amanda Palmer - Take That to reform properly – “one day”, maybe + other real news stories - Are you a wet liberal? Are you a misogynist? - Question: music at work – essential or annoying? And one from yesterday: - Britney tops the search polls –...

A big part of settling in to my gorgeous new turquoise studio has been sorting through all the boxes I didn’t open in my last, more transitory abode. Recycling bags have been filled with assorted paper based crap, including once-exciting items like old tour itineraries, backstage passes and the...