Regal Music Club

5th June 2013 at 7.30 pm for a night of protest songs. Protest and popular song have always gone hand in hand - whether an attack on parliament such as the 17th Century "The World Turned Upside Down", the subversive silk of Sam Cook singing "A Change is Going To Come" or Jessie J's upfront attack on materialistic music culture in "Price Tag". What are you rebelling against, Johnny? "Whaddaya got?".

Laura Lee's "Womens Love Rights" album in 1972 was a strident blast across the bows of all the Superflys, Shafts, and Black Moses Isaac Hayes-esque performers who were dominating funk and soul at the time. Tracks such as "Wedlock is a Padlo...ck", "Crumbs Off the Table" and "Womens Love Rghts" might sound a little lyrically clunky today but at the time were very influencial in the US feminist movement. This track, "Rip Off", is on the one hand less dogmatic and more a remedy against the doggish (as the original poster notes below) but gives a good idea of her style.

Laura Lee "Rip Off"