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...Klein recalls, so band members balanced a broken microphone on top of a bucket—using duct tape to keep the contraption in place. By all accounts, the performance was well-received, and within months, Plan B’s members would be the youngest performers at the Ladyfest East expo in Brooklyn, N.Y., a festival dedicated to supporting women artists. Plan B still screams to much acclaim at Cambridge clubs and campus events—though the band’s name continues to perplex some audience members. “Fellow students ask if we?...
...weren’t expecting anything,” Klein says. But they soon found themselves booked for a gig at the famed Middle East club in Cambridge, a venue for indie up-and-comers from across the country. Klein also contacted the Ladyfest festival, a non-profit annual event dedicated to supporting women artists. Incredibly, Plan B’s simple demo won the five sophomores a spot on the bill this weekend in New York City, where they will be playing alongside musical idols like the Butchies, the Gossip and Le Tigre...
...they prepare to head to this weekend’s Ladyfest, where they will likely be the youngest band to perform, Plan B have tried to uphold a tough schedule of five weekly practices. They have found a regular practice space in Winthrop House and have upgraded much of their equipment, all the while trying to balance band commitments with schoolwork...
Hard, for example, to imagine Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull putting on this week's Ladyfest, Olympia's six-day festival of female bands, artists and speakers, open to both sexes. Workshops range from guitar lessons to basic auto mechanics, "girls only." Besides Sleater-Kinney, other nationally known Olympia acts performing include Bangs (a blissful marriage of the Go-Gos and the Ramones), the Need, and the Gossip. The bands from out of town are also formidable (Cat Power, the Rondelles, Bratmobile), but it's no coincidence that it's happening here...
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