On Saturday 3rd February, Architects will play a sold-out show at Alexandra Palace to 10,000 fans. The band have invited Safe Gigs for Women to attend to promote their work raising awareness of sexual assault and harassment at live music events. SGFW’s Sarah Claudine caught up with lead singer Sam Carter in the run up to […]

Photo Credit: Tom Langford Hi Seán! Thanks so much for giving up your time to talk to us- we know you’re super-busy with your biggest ever UK tour about to kick off! Can you tell us how you got involved with Safe Gigs for Women? Hello! My pleasure! I first heard of SGFW through my friend […]

Statement – Safe Gigs for Women at Festivals and Gigs   From time to time, there are bands and artists who are accused or convicted of domestic abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or rape who have nevertheless been invited to play at a festival or event that SGFW has been invited to attend. Some are […]

The Safe Gigs for Women team emerged from December, very tired, disheveled but feeling positive after four weeks working around the country, speaking to gig goers at dates with The Levellers, Sean McGowan and Frank Turner, giving us amazing access to be able to talk directly to gig goers, and planning for what we do […]

Safe gigs for women is an initiative established by regular gig goers with the aim of creating a safer environment for women at gigs.​

With festival season well under way, I got an email from my friends at the White Ribbon Music Project inviting me to along to help them launch new guidelines at BoomTown Fair. These guidelines would concentrate on how festivals and gigs can be made safer for women. Being the founder of Safe Gigs for Women, […]

My Twitter time line has started filling with links like this, and with both the Isle of Wight and Download this week ahead, it’s fair to say, festival season has started. (If you’re off to Download, know that I wish I was going with you!) I love festivals. As such, I could devote a whole […]

Last Saturday, Grace Dent caused a bit of a stir on my Twitter timeline with this article. At first, I passed it off as clickbait. But on reflection, after reading the article again, I concluded that the point that Dent is very clumsily making is that feminism has bigger battles to fight. And I get […]

After the unfortunate harassment incident that led me to create Safe Gigs for Women, I was acutely aware that the band I had gone to see, Manic Street Preachers, would not have condoned such behaviour, so why did someone at one of their shows think this was appropriate? With its focus on music, it makes […]