Big Joanie

Big Joanie
Origin London, England
Genres Punk, Post-punk
Years active 2013 (2013)–present[1]
Labels Tuff Enuff Records
Sistah Punk Records[2]
Ecstatic Peace Library[3]
Associated acts
Members Stephanie Phillips
Chardine Taylor-Stone
Estella Adeyeri[2][4][5]
Past members Kiera Coward-Deyell[2]

Big Joanie is a British punk trio formed in London in 2013. Its members are Stephanie Phillips (guitar and vocals), Estella Adeyeri (bass guitar and vocals), and Chardine Taylor-Stone (drums and vocals).[1][2][4][5]

History

Big Joanie was formed by Stephanie Phillips (previously of My Therapist Says Hot Damn[6]) in 2013, who posted online asking for bandmates with whom to start a black feminist punk band after becoming frustrated with the lack of intersectionality in the scene. Chardine Taylor-Stone, and the band's original bassist Kiera Coward-Deyell responded. They played their first set at the inaugural First Timers, an event where all the bands had to be new, most of the members had to be playing a new instrument and they had to include someone from a marginalised group.[4][2]

In 2014 the band released their first EP Sistah Punk on Tuff Enuff Records, and in 2016 they self released a 7" three song single entitled Crooked Room on their own Sistah Punk Records. The title track is inspired by a lecture by the writer Melissa Harris-Perry, who compared life as a black woman in a white patriarchy to trying to find a true vertical in a room where everything is crooked.[4] Another song on the release is a punk cover of No Scrubs by TLC.[5]

Estella Adeyeri (also of Witching Waves) joined in 2017 to replace Coward-Deyell after she moved to Scotland. Later that year the band supported American bands Sad13 and Downtown Boys on UK tours.[2] In early 2018 they recorded their debut album with producer Margo Broom at Hermitage Works Studios.[4]

Over the weekend of 2-4 June 2017, DIY Diaspora Punx (a collective started by Phillips and also containing other London musicians such as Rachel Aggs) put on the first Decolonise Fest at DIY Space For London. Decolonise Fest is the UK's first music festival created by and for people of colour.[7] The second edition of the festival, again mostly held at DIY Space, occurred from 22 to 24 June 2018.

On 5 September 2018 Big Joanie announced their debut album Sistahs would be released in late November the same year with a music video for lead single "Fall Asleep". It is the first album to be released by Ecstatic Peace Library, a publishing company ran by visual book editor Eva Prinz and musician Thurston Moore, in their Daydream Library Series.[3][8]

Discography

Albums

EPs

  • Sistah Punk – Tuff Enuff Records, Cassette, MP3 (2014)
  • Crooked Room – Sistah Punk Records, 7", MP3 (2016)

Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 Abarbanel, Aliza (14 April 2017). "4 Queercore Bands to Listen To". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Myers, Owen (30 October 2017). "Women of color have always had a place in punk. Big Joanie is here to remind you of that". The Fader. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 Clarke, Patrick (5 September 2018). "LISTEN: Big Joanie Announce Debut LP". The Quietus. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "New band of the week: Big Joanie". Team Rock. 19 February 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 "Big Joanie For Fans Of: G.L.O.S.S., White Lung, The Slits". Kerrang!. London: Wasted Talent Ltd. 5 August 2017. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  6. ↑ Squirrell, Amy (23 June 2015). "Black, proud and punk". Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  7. ↑ Phillips, Stephanie (31 July 2017). "The Bands Taking British Punk Back to Its Multicultural Roots". Noisey. Vice Media. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  8. ↑ Pelly, Jenn (7 September 2018). "Big Joanie Is One of London's Most Exciting New Punk Bands". Pitchfork. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
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