DEBBIE

DEBBIE is a Female-Fronted Rock Pop Indie Queer Dance-Party FOR EVERYONE - DEBBIE is all-inclusive and aims to create a space where people of all genders, ethnicities, sexualities, body shapes, sizes, ages and (dis)abilities can feel welcome and have a good time. DEBBIE is at The Resistance Gallery, 256 Poyser Street, Bethnal Green, E2 9RF. It takes place on the second Saturday of every month.

DEBBIE loves girl-fronted music of a variety of genres; here are Debbie's rules:

1. Only girl vocals
2. You must dance
3. No Madonna post-1993
4. No snobbery, elitism or prejudice

Expect to hear: Blondie, Patti Smith, Lana Del Rey, Stevie Nicks, Feist, Gillian Welch, Martha Wainwright, PJ Harvey, Bjork, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Shangri-La's, Martha and the Muffins, The Waitresses, The Runaways, Emmylou Harris, The Long Blondes, Rihanna, Le Tigre, J-Lo, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, The Breeders, Belly, Th Throwing Muses, Pixies (Kim's songs), Sonic Youth (the other Kim's songs), Hole, Kate bush, Tori Amos, Mary Margaret O'hara, The Roches, Anna & Kate McGarrigle, Pat Benatar, Laura Brannigan, Camera Obscura, Robyn, The Supremes, Diana Ross, The Concretes, St Etienne, Bat For Lashes, Joan as Policewoman, Cher, Lady Gaga and many more.

Source: Shackwell Arms website