Cazz Blase is a freelance writer and blogger from Stockport, who contributes to the advice section of Journo Resources. She mainly writes about music and feminism but has recently started to explore sustainability, green issues and public transport. You can find her on Twitter @CazzBlase.

What’s She Like: A Memoir by Helen O’Hara Published by: Route Out now Dexy’s Midnight Runners violinist Helen O’Hara has written a refreshingly matter-of-fact account of her pre-Dexy youth, musical career, and return to music after a…

Picture Parlour: Judgement Day(Island) Stream – Out Now Hotly tipped brooding rockers Picture Parlour return with dazzling second single Judgement Day Picture Parlour’s second single ‘Judgement Day’ at first feels like a slower, more thoughtful and…

The Last Dinner Party | Picture Parlour Academy 2, Manchester 12th September 2023 Manchester’s Academy 2 plays host to two of the most exciting up-and-coming bands of 2023, The Last Dinner Party and Picture Parlour. There’s a strong sense of occasion…

Wadfah: Come Around (mallroom) DL Out Now Thai singer songwriter Wadfah serves up a slice of wistful summer indie pop that celebrates the high school crush “It is evident that one of the common experiences in our lives is the feeling of first love”…

Sweetboy: Island (Self released) Stream Out Now NYC indie band Sweetboy’s new single is a guitar and synth powered epic on the theme of escape Island begins quietly with keyboards and the gentle tick, tick of a drum machine set alongside slightly…

Two former Music Business students from Edinburgh College, Gillian Morrison and Ashley Stein, are bringing a new one day conference for women and gender minorities to Edinburgh on 6th April “There were very, very few other women in my class,” says…

Glory Guitars: Memoirs Of A ‘90s Teenage Punk Rock Grrrl by Gogo Germaine Published by University of Hell Press Release date: 11/10/22 An exhilarating, if chaotic, ride through Teenageland by a refined-not-reformed teen degenerate At first glance,…

Revolution On The Rock by Karren Ablaze! Published by Mittens On Publishing Release date: 27/9/22 Legendary Leeds fanzine writer pens her first novel. Taking place in the weeks before and after the EU Referendum of 2016, Revolution On The Rock is a…

The BBC launched its digital radio station BBC7, later 4Extra, in 2002. Now it plans to close it When I first heard in late May that BBC Director General Tim Davie planned to scrap 4Extra, I was not exactly surprised (to my mind, the BBC have never…

Florence + The Machine Dance Fever (Polydor) Vinyl | CD | DL Available at Sister Ray The festival queen Florence returns with an album of fierce and poignant songs inspired by plagues past and present As a songwriter and performer, Florence Welch…

Cazz Blase salutes Helen Reddington’s book She’s at the Controls, a forensic examination of the gendered power play in the music sound engineering and production industry In her newest book, She’s at the Controls, Helen Reddington reflects on her own…

A lot of people in the UK don’t know who runs their bus network. This was an issue that came up regularly when Pascale Robinson, activist and central organiser of the Better Buses For Greater Manchester (BB4GM) campaign, began talking to local people…

Cazz Blase Apr 2·22 min read Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic incidents of sexual harassment and violence at live music events were regularly flagged up by music fans and artists. What happens when venues re-open? ‘The extra price of a gig ticket’ gig…

Book review by Cazz Blase Lucy O’Brien: She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul (Jawbone Press) One thing I always feel the need to explain whenever I’m reviewing the latest edition of Lucy O’Brien’s classic text is that,…

Cazz Blase Jan 31·6 min read Photo of Edinburgh by on Unsplash Scotland, 1996: Teenage girls dancing to Edwyn Collins’ ‘A Girl Like You’. The same girls dancing into a takeaway, mucking about in a fast food outlet. Stop. A scene of calm. Five girls…

It Takes Blood And Guts Skin (with Lucy O’Brien) Simon & Schuster Cazz Blase finds Skin’s memoir of her life in and out of Skunk Anansie to be a refreshing and entertaining read The 1990s, a decade that began with grunge and riot grrrl on one hand…

Before the UK went into lockdown on the evening of the 23 March, I wasn’t really someone who walked for pleasure. For me, walking was a means to an end, not a thing in itself, and it was frequently boring and unpleasant. I live in Greater…

Nasty Cherry | Noisy MancesterAcademy 29th February 2020 Cazz Blase and Melanie Smith witness Nasty Cherry’s turbocharged Manchester debut. A far cry from the howling wind and rain outside, the Academy 3 is a veritable sweatpit tonight. You can feel…

Manchester Academy 27th February 2020 Cazz Blase and Melanie Smith witness an exceedingly on form Sleater-Kinney on their The Center Won’t Hold Tour, with strong support from Katie Harkin. There aren’t as many people gathered to watch Katie Harkin…