The TRNSMT statement was a mess but underneath it I can see what he’s getting at: from a commercial point of view there’s simply not enough female acts, at every level, going around every year – specifically in indie/guitar circles. They’re not going to get The Big Moon to sub under Liam Gallagher, for instance.
It’s an industry-wide problem about needing to amplify female guitar acts – via press, radio, funding, TV – and getting them to the stage where they can be and are popular enough to be fitting into these sausage-fest lineups.
The problem is, this sort of meat and potatoes British indie music has always been so relentlessly male-dominated that it’s almost a feature in and of itself at this point. Pretty grim.
