Tracks Darlington’s Noisy Daughters project champions women and gender minorities in the
music industry and on Friday and Saturday 23rd and 24th of September will be bringing their
activities to The Forum Music Centre. On Friday 23rd there will be a gig celebrating strong female voices with Scruffy Bear headlining, special guests Pave The Jungle, and Darlington’s own Eve Conway.
Scruffy Bear melt minds with their monstrous riffs, earth shattering sound and the unreal vocal
talents of Georgie Eaton twinned with a serious and stylish attitude. Pave The Jungle are an alt
rock two piece from Newcastle who build huge overdriven soundscapes around Rachael Whittle’s
swaggering sound. Eve Conway combines the song craft of a country star, writing relatable folk
ditties that talk of love, loss and the everyday grind, with the stagecraft of a contemporary urban
pop artist, featuring looping vocals and a stylish charm that hypnotises and energises crowds.
On Saturday 24th from 1pm-3pm there will be a free ‘Introduction To Live Sound’ workshop open
to all women, girls and people of minority genders. Tracks have linked up with the brilliant
Yorkshire Sound Women network to bring practitioner Jo Kennedy to Darlington to deliver the
workshop.
Jo works as a freelance artist and technician. She makes sound art, performs live experimental
music, runs technical and creative workshops and does live sound engineering for small events.
She is particularly interested in sound art as a means of environmental education and activism.
Jo explains: “The workshop will empower participants who are maybe wanting to run a gig night or
venue, or a performer wanting to speak with more confidence and authority to venue sound
engineers. This 2-hour workshop will provide a friendly, supportive space for you to get your hands
on PA equipment and understand the essentials of live sound. You’ll learn how to get signals from
instruments and microphones successfully into a mixing desk via cables, DI boxes and connectors,
what to do with these signals once they arrive at the desk, and how to get them back out to room
speakers and foldback monitors suitably amplified and mixed for a great listening experience. Feel
free to bring your own instruments for use in the workshop!”
Rob Irish of Tracks added: “It’s great to see a growing awareness of more technical roles in the
music industry nowadays – we’re seeing a lot more education and participation in recording,
production & mixing, however I feel like live sound is still overlooked, despite it being such an
important and exciting job in music. It’s no secret that women are underrepresented in the
industry, especially on the tech side, and ridiculously so within live sound – we know there’s loads
of women out there who wanna get their hands on a mixing desk, but maybe they’re not sure
where to start, and with confidence, so we hope this workshop can be give them that opportunity”
Tickets for the gig and workshop will be available from www.tracksdarlington.co.uk
The workshop is free but places are limited and must be booked in advance.
Tickets for the gig are £6.
Thanks to Creative Darlington and Arts Council England for making these events possible.
