Glasgow Podcart is a Scottish based music/arts website which produces weekly podcasts showcasing the best in grass roots and unsigned artists, not just from Scotland, but around the world. The podcast endeavors to expose as much new talent as possible, no matter what style, what size, or how established—Glasgow Podcart believes everyone deserves a platform to showcase their work.
The ladies of Glasgow Podcart, Halina and Kirsten, are sharing this platform with TVD with both missives from Glasgow you’ll only find right here, and of course the podcast itself. —Ed.
Being a female is not all about having breasts and a vagina. If we really get into the nitty gritty, then nowadays you can have a penis and still regard yourself as a female.
Working in any capacity in the music industry or community as a female can be quite tough at times. Yes, I can hear your testosterone filled groans from here gents, but seriously you can be quite difficult sometimes.
Females show their emotions more, they can express their passion visibly and I am not talking about weeping and wailing at the time of the month, I am talking about the way we connect with our female peers, music, and the drive we have as a sex.
Since starting Podcart, most of my meetings, coverage, and listening has favoured the male sex. This is not because I have chosen to, I haven’t really thought about the sex of someone when listening to music. Well – not since New Kids on the Block tapped into my loins. However, over the last year I have thought about it more and tried to make more of an effort to cover the female side of things. It is going to be an inevitable thought process at some point as I am, of course, one of the bitches.
You have to have quite a thick skin in this business. I work on a blog level and I find it sometimes slightly tough, but to work on a bigger level and be taken seriously is a whole different handbag of bra fillers.
A breath of fresh air came in the form of TYCI (Tuck Your C*nt In), a brand new collective run by women for women. The TYCI founders say the following, “The meaning is something akin to a feminine version of ‘man up.’ Sorting yourself out. Taking charge of your own destiny. Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps and bloody well getting things done – and this is exactly what we hope to achieve.”
Women have to be able to discuss things together, to question, to raise awareness as a group and that is where we often find our camaraderie. There are plans to start a radio programme, discuss issues from all walks of life, and so far this has been demonstrated in blogs about pornography, anxiety, and political issues. Furthermore, this is a place to show the amount of talented and creative females we have in our country.
If you are a female and you have something to say then why not check it out? What is the worst that could happen? We might as well have some great things to substitute the fact that we cannot piss on walls and scratch our balls.
