Slam Dunk festival was criticised for releasing a line-up with only two acts featuring women.
Cherym say women are so under-represented in the industry, they're often mistaken for other band's girlfriends when they show up to gigs
"I'm so sick of seeing of seeing line-ups that are predominantly cis, straight, white men all the time," Hannah tells BBC Newsbeat. Of the 20 featured acts, only two - Delilah Bon and Dream State - included female musicians, sparking a disappointed reaction from fans.Slam Dunk is one of the UK's biggest independent rock festivals and its spokesperson declined to say anything about the line-up announcement when approached by Newsbeat. In 2018, campaign group Keychange presented a manifesto to the European Parliament calling for more to be done to improve representation in the industry.
Megan says fans might also think there aren't enough "headline worthy" female acts but says she'd urge them to "question why that might be"."Where can we start to build up that ladder to headliner status? It's hard, and we've been grafting at this for years now." Hanni Pidduck and Clara Townsend make up two halves of Brighton duo ARXX and describe their sound as "like Taylor Swift if she only ever listened to Nirvana"."You can be outraged but it's still not surprising. It's really upsetting that we're still at that point.""The feeling and the general experience right now is that opportunities are afforded much more for a certain demographic," they say.
Megan says outside of those genres, there's an element of "gatekeeping" from women and Hannah says there can be an expectation of the kinds of music they should make.
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