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                                                         Ros: Guitar/ vocals
                                                         Vas: Drums/ vocals

 WE ROCK LIKE GIRLS DON’T began when Glaswegian guitarist/ vocalist Ros Cairney advertised
 for a Rock’n’Roll Freak in London paper Loot and met her match in London/ Greek drummer
                                       Vas Antoniadou.

Self released singles ROCK’N’ROLL FREAK, I JUST WANNA STICK MY HEAD IN THE BASS DRUM, and
VIOLENCE were followed by critically acclaimed debut album HOW DID IT GET TO THIS recorded
                                with producer Mark Freegard.

An extensive UK and European tour in 2009 culminated in a showcase gig for Discovery talent
 at the Tabernacle in London where Ruth Rothwell (ex Universal Music) immediately offered
                        them a deal with Domino Publishing Company.

    In January 2010 We Rock Like Girls Don’t hit the ground running by going on a rock’n’roll
pilgrimage to Seattle to record new AA single Welcome To My World / Feeling Lonely Now with
                                US producer John Goodmanson.

          Debut festival appearances followed on the mainstage at Rock Wauberg,
Paulusfeesten and Leff ingeleuren in Belgium. A summer tour of Europe included memorable
 headline shows at The Charlatan Club during Gentsefeesten and the Duncker Club in Berlin.

  The duo are demoing new material with Manic Street Preachers producer Dave Eringa and
  begin a three month residency for Tourdates Sessions @ The Monarch in Camden, London
                        beginning Wednesday 29th September 2010.

                           WWW.WEROCKLIKEGIRLSDONT.COM
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                                                           SINGLE OF THE WEEK
                                                           WE ROCK LIKE GIRLS DON’T - I Just Wanna Stick My Head In The Bassdrum


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                                                           (Distort)-This rocks like girls do, we told you about them before, we’ve enjoyed
                                                           them on Organ bills, we’ve raved and drooled, they rock! Another classic scuzzy
                                                           single, kind of single you want to kiss until you cum, or at least stick your head
                                                           in the bassdrum. Three rough and ready minutes of filthy riffs, horny vocals,
                                                           infectious melody-like PJ Harvey riding on the Stooges, like the queen of all
                                                           riding bella lee. Feisty prowling all girl rock action from Glasgow-magnificent
                                                           scuzz-driving heavy rocking melody-laden desire in total face slapping line
                                                           crossing blast that’s in total control...
                                                           www.organart.com
“Welcome To My World outguns
Verucca Salt and those
invoking Sleater-Kinney just
can’t have heard this record                                                                                   VIOLENCE
because Feeling Lonely Now
transcends all that gender
                                                                                                               BOLD, BRASH
rubbish by simply being a top                                                                                  AND UTTERLY
rock track, that’s more than                                                                                   UNFORGIVING
enough”                                                                                                        - WRLGD are a
 UNPEELED
                                                                                                               stupendous ball of
                                                                                                               noise and energy
                                                                                                               needing your
                                                                                                               attention now!”




                                                                                        WRLGD capture a grunge feel that just goes for
                                                                                        the jugular. Welcome To My World is an angst
                                                                                        ridden, sinister guitar, full on kick ass rock track.
                                                                                        Feeling Lonely Now starts off with dreamy vocals
                                                                                        before letting rip with more rock goodness. Both
                                                                                        tracks are a break from the norm of usual mass
                                                                                        produced music” Neil Richardson R12/13


                                                                                                                LOSINGTODAY
                                                                                      V IOLEN C E
                                                                                      A BROODING BASTARD OF A CUT -
                                                                                      LOSING TODAY
                                                                                      We Rock Like Girls Don’t have a self titled debut
                                                                                      full length currently leashed up and growling
                                                                                      menacingly in the shadows and due for parole in
                                                                                      January, for now brief teaser ‘Violence’ gets its sub
                                                                                      three minutes in the spotlight, a brooding bastard
                                                                                      of a cut that wires itself into the jarring fractured
                                                                                      mind set of ‘Sliver’ era Nirvana..a bone shaking
                                                                                      fuzz laced paint bomb ravaged by squalling lights
                                                                                      out punching ri s headlocked within a swamp like
                                                                                      groove that spits and struts with menacing intent..a
                                                                                      deceptive and splintered soulful grind a la PJ Harvey
                                                                                      that’s literally being choked to within an inch of its
                                                                                      life. Brutal stu and an essential addition to any well
                                                                                      ordered record collection.
                                                                                      www.losingtoday.com




                                                                               Rocking like the best girls do again ORGAN MAGAZINE
                                                                               Organ Magazine Oct 16th ‘08
“A raw, powerful and aggressive record that is sure to make the floor           VIOLENCE
bounce up and down. Welcome To My World is close to the style of Yeah
Yeah Yeahs or the dark sound of The Kills combined with Garbage. With
                                                                               Back for more and they’re rocking like the best girls do
chants of ‘feeling lonely now’ backed by a riveting thick distorted            again. A no messing, abrasive punk rock bite from
guitar sound, Feeling Lonely Now is one of those tracks that sure get          Scotland. We Rock do rock, they rock with confidant,
your heart racing. This record embodies what punk is. A loud, ferocious
                                                                               strident bite and the Scottish band are better than ever
sound that doesn’t care what anyone thinks” 7/10
                                                                               with this scuzzy, edgy howl of a new single.
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                                                                                  “We Rock Like Girls Don’t
                                                                                  have produced a debut album
                                                                                  that is as pugnacious as their
                                                                                  name. They take their lead
                                                                                  from PJ Harvey’s playful,
                                                                                  satirical 50ft Queenie yet
                                                                                  sound deadly serious in their
                                                                                  intent to beat guys such as
                                                                                  Black Lips at their DIY garage
                                                                                  punk game. Songs about
                                                                                  dysfunctional, obsessive
                                                                                  love or losing it to rock’n’roll
                                                                                  pinball from
                                                                                  the low-slung to the unhinged
                                                                                  with great alacrity”
                                                                                  THE SCOTSMAN




                                                                                                                          Get To This
                                                                                                          “How Did It
                                                                                                                         ting slab of
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The Scottish girl’s debut album ‘How Did It Get To This’ is a raging, scathing                                               CK THEO
                                                                                    from cacophany               PUNK RO
abrasive mix of Babes in Toyland, PJ Harvey, White Stripes and that extra                                        COM
                                                                                    and inexplicably
bite that’s something all of their own. Full of no messing who the hell are you
                                                                                    succeed on all
attitude, raw riffs and visceral goodness. They have made the DIY, in your
                                                                                    levels” ****
face punky, grungy album they’ve always threatened, best things come to             SUBBACULTCHA
those who wait. The album is out this week, indeed the beautiful thing is our
album of the week here at Organ magazine
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“Two‘furieuses’
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We Rock Like
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                                       naam die klopt als een bus. Een
hit like guys                          gitaar/drum duo, ironisch gezien
with a most
f e m a l e                            beiden meiden, die de weide
t o u c h                              overstemmen met hun rock.
seducing
both      guys                         Nummers zoals Welcome to my
and girls. This
is hot..they enjoy
                                       world blijven in je hoofd zitten
themselves madly                       en maken je nieuwsgierig naar
on sacred melodies
based on muscular                      de rest van hun repertoire. Een
riffs full of finesse which             aanrader om nadien ook eens op
effortlessly    fuse    into a
powerful and yet subtle                te zoeken op iTunes.
assault. WRLGD are a carnal
communion between the
                                       ROCK WAUBERG FESTIVAL, JULY 2010
indomitable      Scottish
Ros on guitar and
the     Mediterranean
warmth of drummer
Vas. This is a rock
n roll hot and full
of       pheromones
that just possesses
you.”
PHOTOROCK.COM,
CHARLATAN CLUB,
JULY 2010

“From the first note,
Ros and Vas pull
in the attention in
the room.        Strong
tension and Ros’
extraordinary
voice transport the
enormous dynamics
of the duo.         Two
experienced,
powerful women tell                    “Avec We Rock Like Girls Don’t on
the story of scenes                    s’aventure dans le spécial. Ce duo
lived     through      their
                                       londonien féminin guitare-batterie qui
music. They completely inspired with
the hits ‘I just wanna stick my head   ne paie pas de mine fait dans un rock
in the bass drum’, ‘Queen of Heavy     énergique qui pour autant ne laisse pas
Metal’ and ‘Rock n Roll Freak’. The    les mélodies sur le bord de la route.
two women complement each other        Grosses guitares fuzzées et batterie
just as well as their punk guitar      hypnotique, on pense aux Breeders
sound and furious drums, two souls     ...ou à un Elastica sous amphét’. En
in harmony? We want to hear their      tout cas, c’est la claque de la soirée ; un
sound on the German stage again        truc “pan dans ta gueule !” comme on
soon!”                                 aimerait en voir plus souvent.”
SCENE2ACT.DE, SOUNDS MUSIC
HALL, ESSEN, JULY 2010                 Rock’n’Roll Rebel Club, Moen, Belg ium,
                                       October 2009, rockpixels.free.fr
Mokerdrums, feedback, distortion, herrie, hapering, en na tien seconden: de bevrijdende killer riff.
De groove is gevonden, en we zijn vertrokken op één van de meest opwindende rockroetsjbanen van
2009.
Ros uit Glasgow verhuist met haar gitaar naar Londen en plaatst een advertentie: ‘Rock-’n-rollfreak
gezocht.’ Zo leert ze Vas kennen, die van haar Griekse vader geen gitaar mocht spelen en dus maar
trommelstokken kocht. Aanvankelijk speelt ene X mee op bas, maar zij stapt op (het liedje ‘The Power
of Three’ blijft wel). Het resterende duo werkt twee jaar aan ‘How Did It Get to This’, doet alles zelf
en neemt op telkens als het genoeg steungeld heeft gespaard. ‘We rock like girls don’t’ schrijven ze als
verkooppraatje op een demo. Het wordt de groepsnaam.
Opener ‘Violence’ geeft meteen twee invloeden prijs: Queens of the Stone Age en PJ Harvey, met
een vette verwijzing naar ‘Sheela-Na-Gig’. Wat volgt is zo’n onwelvoeglijke oproer van oneliners en
gratuit gitaargeweld dat de jonge Joan Jett spontaan voor de geest floept. ‘Queen of Heavy Metal’ en
‘I Just Wanna Stick My Head in the Bass Drum’ heten twee hoogtepunten (dat de Ramones nooit op
zulke geniale titels gekomen zijn!). De volgende regel in dat laatste nummer gaat zo: ‘I just wanna kiss
you hard until you come’. Groove, guts én goesting: hallo, Chokri?
Na ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Freak’ - Elastica op maat van The Stooges en straks de coolste feel good hit of the
summer sinds ‘MF From Hell’ van The Datsuns - halen deze Eaglettes of Death Metal even de bottine
van het gas voor de powerballad ‘Photograph’ (‘Afrekening’-materiaal).
‘How Did It Get To This’: elf smerige vluggertjes op dik dertig minuten door twee vuilgebekte rock-
wijven die even strak samenspelen als ze eruitzien. Moeder, dáárom leven wij.

‘Drums, feedback, noise, glitchs and after ten seconds the killer riff that sets us free. The groove is
found and we are off on one of the most exciting rock rollercoasters of 2009.” HUMO




“How Did It Get to This” von We Rock Like Girls Don’t ****
Was Verstärker können, können nur Verstärker. Etwa: aus einer einzelnen Gitarre eine Dampfwalze machen. Die etwas unglücklich benannten
We Rock Like Girls Don’t bestehen gerade mal aus einem Schlagzeug und einer Gitarre, doch die Wunder der Amplifikation bescheren dem
britischen Damenduo auf ihrem Debüt einen Sound, schwer wie Buckingham Palace und breit wie der Motorway 1.
Der runderneuerte Led-Zeppelin-Sound mit der Tieflader-Gitarre und den Presslufthammer-Drums ließe das Duo als 20 Jahre verspätete Grun-
geband durchgehen, wenn da nicht diese wütenden Frauenstimmen wären, die doch eher an PJ Harvey als an L7 erinnern. Der Gesang ist die
einzige Spur Verletzlichkeit, die das Album sich gönnt. Ein Glück, denn sonst wäre es eine langweilige Stonerrockplatte geworden.

Von Gregor Kessler

“A sound as heavy as Buckingham Palace and as wide as the M1 but with a vulnerablility reminiscent of PJ Harvey” 4/5 FINANCIAL TIMES
DEUTSCHLAND




Die Perfekten und die Ruppigen
We Rock Like Girls Don’t Rock in Freiburg

Da passte das Konzert am Samstag im bis zum Anschlag gefüllten The Great Räng Teng Teng wie die Faust aufs Auge. Dass sie eine reine Mädchenband seien,
sei ein Unfall, hat Sängerin/Gitarristin Ros einmal gesagt, da waren We Rock Like Girls Don’t noch zu dritt. Von der damaligen Bassistin stammte der Slogan “I
Hate Girl Bands”, der auch heute noch auf den Fan-T-Shirts steht. Schlagzeugerin Vas mischt nach einer Unterbrechung wieder mit, seit drei Jahren versuchen
Ros, die mit ihren kurzen Haaren aussieht wie die junge Mia Farrow, und ihre sportliche Mitstreiterin zu zweit, ein wenig gegen den Strom zu schwimmen. Mit
heftigem Gitarrenrock spielen sie an gegen Sexismus, Klischees, Trends und Angepasstsein. Kein hoffnungsloser Fall, denn die beiden sind wirklich gut. Ros
singt mit fast zerbrechlicher Stimme wilde Rock-’n’-Roll-Texte, verzichtet auf jegliche Posen von “Rock-Schlampen” (so heißt das heutzutage), dafür klingt
die Gitarre wie eine zackige Dreckschleuder.

Titel wie “Queen of Heavy Metal”, “Rock ’n’ Roll Freak” oder “Out of Control” sprechen eine deutliche Sprache, die Stücke aber arbeiten mit Brüchen, ver-
querer Rhythmik und fast schon versteckten Refrains. Eine reizvolle, unperfekte Mixtur, die nur im Vergleich mit aktuellen Images widersprüchlich wirkt. We
Rock Like Girls Don’t tun auch nichts anderes als das, was zartbesaitete Männer seit Jahren tun.
http://www.badische-zeitung.de/nachrichten/kultur/die-perfekten-und-die-ruppigen--13368131.html
features
                                                                                         and
                                                                                      live reviews




Nice n Sleazy, Glasgow
Vas Antoniadou, drummer with We Rock Like Girls Don’t is a rock behemoth. An open handed
demi-godess of the skins. Seriously, she picks up her sticks and Thor slopes off. Yet, with an as-
tounding subtlty. She adds more flourish and flair to one roll than most thumpers manage in a
lifetimes work. Frankly breathtaking. And worth the price of entry alone.
And brilliantly, that’s not even the half of it. Up front we have T H E H E RYeah. In the beginning
                                                                       Roz Cairney. A L D
there was the riff; then there was Roz. I have no idea what the hell she’s playing through, but
the guitar is like a wall. You know when scientists do that stuff where you can listen to glaziers or
mountains. This is what you expect to be the results. If the soundman’s been slacking tonight, he
can’t help but wake up now. And, with a voice like a not-annoying PJ, she can be both terrifying
and deeply vulnerable. And, even, at the same time.
There’s the rumbling groove of Queen Of Heavy Metal. The careering don’t-try-this-at-home
holler of I Just Wanna Stick My Head In The Bass Drum. The exhilarating pogo like a loon ramalama
of Rock ‘n Roll Freak. It’s irresistible. As in ‘resistance is futile’. Over the next few weeks people
will be paying stupid money to see anemic boy bands (like Metallica and AC/DC) peddle their
watery brand of (guaranteed over-extended) rock. These people are idiots.
Tonight is the launch of stunning debut album How Did It Get To This?. There’s party poppers,
treats, drinks laid on and a raffle. Puny bands of Glasgow take note! And quake

Tony Kiernan
93 Feet East                        London Barfly Review              The Purple Turtle
****
Next up was We Rock Like Girls      Onward, then, to a Monarch       Of the bands on show,
Don’t and, quite bloody frankly,    that proves to be on the         most un-Keane-like (and,
a reason to petition against the    heaving     side,   doubtless    consequently, best) were the
BBC’s arse-hole decision to shut    because      the    evening’s    mighty We Rock Like Girls
the station. Two people making      attractions include We Rock
                                                                     Don’t, who tourdates first
such a glorious noise should        Like Girls Don’t, who still
                                                                     encountered as a three-piece
be standing for parliament, but     have one of our favourite
                                    names on the toilet circuit at   some years ago. They have
they’re not, they’re standing and
grinding and riffing for you, dear   the moment and are always        since slimmed-down to a duo
listeners. Go and see them.         mentioned in glowing terms       without losing an ounce of the
Really.                             on this here site. And we’re     visceral ferocity that always
Paul Pledger                        going to glow again! Among       made them such a compelling
                                    fempoppers, they’re fairly       live act.
                                    close in the glamour stakes
                                    to Le Tigre, and their chop-     Comparisons with PJ Harvey
                                    ’em-out brand of every-song-     are justified, though WRLGD
                                    could-be-our-last     punkoid    prefer to leave all the rough
                                    bombing      keeps    enough     edges on show and refuse
                                    wilful Slitsoid personality to
                                                                     to indulge in shoe-gazy self-
                                    tower above some of their
                                                                     analysis - their songs are raw,
                                    more generic counterparts.
                                    Moreover, in the nigh on         cathartic and to-the-point,
                                    year and a half since last       brilliant live material, in other
                                    they prowled in our path,        words. ‘Violence’ and ‘I Just
                                    they seem to have become         Want To Stick My Head In The
                                    noticeably grubbier. A very      Bass Drum’ were highlights,
                                    good thing, naturally.           but a punchy set never sagged
                                    Iain Moffat                      for a moment. Check them
                                                                     out on our website and catch
                                                                     them live. Terrific.
                                                                     Richard Hodkinson


                                                                       93 Feet East
                                                                       *****
                                                                       www.remotegoat.co.uk

                                                                       Rockers across the wireless would
                                                                       be bowing down to We Rock like
                                                                       Girls Don’t. These two girls had the
                                                                       energy, ferocity and ability of the
                                                                       best of Queens of the Stone Age,
                                                                       they made White Stripes sound
                                                                       like a high school debut act. These
                                                                       understated Glaswegians punched
                                                                       out ribcage vibrating ‘Violence’ and
                                                                       their next single ‘Welcome to My
                                                                       World’. A gig / tune not to be missed
                                                                       if you are fed of indie miserablism.
                                                                       Emita Mee
CMU: Rock Like Girls Don’t have quite a self explanatory name, which is handy. Glaswegian guitar-
Female duo We
ist/vocalist Ros Cairney recruited Greek drummer Vas Antoniadou through Loot, and after a period of what one
might call ‘musical differences’, the pair are firmly together in their current incarnation, wowing all the right
people.
The girls are now ready to unleash their debut album ‘How Did It Get To This’ - available to download right now,
and physically released on 6 Apr - on their own label, Distort.
Here are Ros Cairney’s answers to our Same Six Questions.

Q1 How did you start out making music?
I started piano lessons at six years old and violin lessons at school when I was seven years old. Unfortunately, the
violin teacher seemed very old with a red face, and he had hair coming out his nostrils and told me I had lovely
eyelashes. I first played live in the school orchestra and remember turning the violin on its side like a guitar and
playing riffs. After I heard The Beatles I knew I had to have a guitar. My parents bought a Spanish guitar to
share with my brother who was having guitar lessons (to my great annoyance) and we both immediately started
writing songs and playing them to each other. I saved up my school dinner money and bought a white Les Paul
copy for £75. We discovered Boss Metalizer pedals, The Pixies and a love affair with distortion began. I formed
a band with my brother and his school friends. Vas wasn’t allowed to play guitar by her Greek dad but rebelled
and bought a drum kit with her grant money when she went to Uni and promptly joined about five bands to make
up for lost time.

Q2 What inspired your latest album?
Our debut album is inspired by each other and our desire to leave a record of our songs and the great energy we
always generate when we play music. It says “We Was Here!” It is also very much a reflection of our frustration,
our fights as we turned on each other and our determination not to be defeated by circumstances. Our bassist left
to reform a band with her brother, our original sessions were deleted by the first studio we recorded in, my JCM
800 Marshall Head amp was stolen from my flat. We traced it through eBay to a music shop in Islington, staked
out the shop then grabbed it as the owner screamed he was getting the police and we screamed that we needed
it to finish the album! Some bastard had nicked it and sold it cheap to get money for drugs. We have financed
everything by credit cards, jobseekers allowance, private guitar tuition, and family donations. The album will be
released on our own label. This is our resistance, our “little bit of creation” to quote the last song ‘Violence Is In
The Air’. In a wider context it is how it felt to be living in London in 2007.

Q3 How do you go about creating a track?
I write songs at home on guitar and work on them further with Vas, we gig them and then four track our ideas in
her attic. This album was recorded over the last two years as money allowed in Glasgow, London and Devon. We
were keen to get live, raw recordings and the last sessions we did at the end of 2007 with Mark Freegard in his
Glasgow studio were very organic. He is very quick to capture our drum, guitar and vocal sounds and that meant
we didn’t overwork anything in the studio. Vas and I recorded the bass on much of the album ourselves after we
had played live guitar and drum takes. We have half of our second album written and hope someone will give us
a publishing deal to help us.

Q4 Which artists influence your work?
PJ Harvey’s early albums, The Breeders’ ‘Pod’ album, The Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’ album, Elastica live when they
were a sleazy rock n roll band, John Lennon Plastic Ono Band. John Lennon’s direct words, grinding rhythm
guitar playing and minimal melody with riff type songs (eg ‘Cold Turkey’, ‘I Found Out’) are a big influence.

Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
Thanks for listening to us, hope the music makes you feel alive and powerful. That’s how it makes us feel.

Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future?
Our ambition, now that we are finally releasing our debut album, is to play live every night for weeks like a mean
rock n roll machine, to give up jobs which waste our time and to improve with the next album!

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WRLGD Presspack

  • 1. WE ROCK LIKE GIRLS DON’T pa ck p re ss
  • 2. ap hy io gr B (c) Stef 2010 STRIPTIC.BE Ros: Guitar/ vocals Vas: Drums/ vocals WE ROCK LIKE GIRLS DON’T began when Glaswegian guitarist/ vocalist Ros Cairney advertised for a Rock’n’Roll Freak in London paper Loot and met her match in London/ Greek drummer Vas Antoniadou. Self released singles ROCK’N’ROLL FREAK, I JUST WANNA STICK MY HEAD IN THE BASS DRUM, and VIOLENCE were followed by critically acclaimed debut album HOW DID IT GET TO THIS recorded with producer Mark Freegard. An extensive UK and European tour in 2009 culminated in a showcase gig for Discovery talent at the Tabernacle in London where Ruth Rothwell (ex Universal Music) immediately offered them a deal with Domino Publishing Company. In January 2010 We Rock Like Girls Don’t hit the ground running by going on a rock’n’roll pilgrimage to Seattle to record new AA single Welcome To My World / Feeling Lonely Now with US producer John Goodmanson. Debut festival appearances followed on the mainstage at Rock Wauberg, Paulusfeesten and Leff ingeleuren in Belgium. A summer tour of Europe included memorable headline shows at The Charlatan Club during Gentsefeesten and the Duncker Club in Berlin. The duo are demoing new material with Manic Street Preachers producer Dave Eringa and begin a three month residency for Tourdates Sessions @ The Monarch in Camden, London beginning Wednesday 29th September 2010. WWW.WEROCKLIKEGIRLSDONT.COM WWW.MYSPACE.COM/WEROCKLIKEGIRLSDONT
  • 3. LE ews SINGLE OF THE WEEK - ORGAN NG Evi SINGLE OF THE WEEK WE ROCK LIKE GIRLS DON’T - I Just Wanna Stick My Head In The Bassdrum SI r (Distort)-This rocks like girls do, we told you about them before, we’ve enjoyed them on Organ bills, we’ve raved and drooled, they rock! Another classic scuzzy single, kind of single you want to kiss until you cum, or at least stick your head in the bassdrum. Three rough and ready minutes of filthy riffs, horny vocals, infectious melody-like PJ Harvey riding on the Stooges, like the queen of all riding bella lee. Feisty prowling all girl rock action from Glasgow-magnificent scuzz-driving heavy rocking melody-laden desire in total face slapping line crossing blast that’s in total control... www.organart.com “Welcome To My World outguns Verucca Salt and those invoking Sleater-Kinney just can’t have heard this record VIOLENCE because Feeling Lonely Now transcends all that gender BOLD, BRASH rubbish by simply being a top AND UTTERLY rock track, that’s more than UNFORGIVING enough” - WRLGD are a UNPEELED stupendous ball of noise and energy needing your attention now!” WRLGD capture a grunge feel that just goes for the jugular. Welcome To My World is an angst ridden, sinister guitar, full on kick ass rock track. Feeling Lonely Now starts off with dreamy vocals before letting rip with more rock goodness. Both tracks are a break from the norm of usual mass produced music” Neil Richardson R12/13 LOSINGTODAY V IOLEN C E A BROODING BASTARD OF A CUT - LOSING TODAY We Rock Like Girls Don’t have a self titled debut full length currently leashed up and growling menacingly in the shadows and due for parole in January, for now brief teaser ‘Violence’ gets its sub three minutes in the spotlight, a brooding bastard of a cut that wires itself into the jarring fractured mind set of ‘Sliver’ era Nirvana..a bone shaking fuzz laced paint bomb ravaged by squalling lights out punching ri s headlocked within a swamp like groove that spits and struts with menacing intent..a deceptive and splintered soulful grind a la PJ Harvey that’s literally being choked to within an inch of its life. Brutal stu and an essential addition to any well ordered record collection. www.losingtoday.com Rocking like the best girls do again ORGAN MAGAZINE Organ Magazine Oct 16th ‘08 “A raw, powerful and aggressive record that is sure to make the floor VIOLENCE bounce up and down. Welcome To My World is close to the style of Yeah Yeah Yeahs or the dark sound of The Kills combined with Garbage. With Back for more and they’re rocking like the best girls do chants of ‘feeling lonely now’ backed by a riveting thick distorted again. A no messing, abrasive punk rock bite from guitar sound, Feeling Lonely Now is one of those tracks that sure get Scotland. We Rock do rock, they rock with confidant, your heart racing. This record embodies what punk is. A loud, ferocious strident bite and the Scottish band are better than ever sound that doesn’t care what anyone thinks” 7/10 with this scuzzy, edgy howl of a new single.
  • 4. AL BU M RE ” How D id feral fer It Get To This VI ocity of recalls th early P stark ro ck fire o J Harve e insoucia fP y, the nce of Y ixies and the E METRO eah Yea WS h Yeahs ” “We Rock Like Girls Don’t have produced a debut album that is as pugnacious as their name. They take their lead from PJ Harvey’s playful, satirical 50ft Queenie yet sound deadly serious in their intent to beat guys such as Black Lips at their DIY garage punk game. Songs about dysfunctional, obsessive love or losing it to rock’n’roll pinball from the low-slung to the unhinged with great alacrity” THE SCOTSMAN Get To This “How Did It ting slab of “IfPJ Harvey and Josh Homme is one exci ex- had got together about a decade earlier raw rock n roll that nd sex. Ros a and decided to indulge their mutual udes pure create a garage-punk influences this is what it may to Vas manage n well have sounded like. A dark and edgy und betwee wall of so debut from British duo that could well turn them with “Like a drunken the two of into a very essential outfit on the garage drums and teenager tight- pounding st rock circuit” the noisie some of rope-walking d s I’ve heard ROOM THIRTEEN guitar soun l the wall of a ock ‘N’ Rol this year. “R percut of multi-story car Freak” is an up park’s upper most of the a song. Like lbum.” floor, WRLGD songs on this a pick semblance 8/10 RY. The Scottish girl’s debut album ‘How Did It Get To This’ is a raging, scathing CK THEO from cacophany PUNK RO abrasive mix of Babes in Toyland, PJ Harvey, White Stripes and that extra COM and inexplicably bite that’s something all of their own. Full of no messing who the hell are you succeed on all attitude, raw riffs and visceral goodness. They have made the DIY, in your levels” **** face punky, grungy album they’ve always threatened, best things come to SUBBACULTCHA those who wait. The album is out this week, indeed the beautiful thing is our album of the week here at Organ magazine “Rocking hard enough for thos with mo e re extre taste, W me RLGD still appe al cut off fragile in to the anted to die spirit eard it I w ears, pour out there s “ T his album growls and claws at you t time I h m in my ..T rock’n’ro his is r inner ear with decibel “The firs shove the ers and throw them ll at its offensive climaxes and enough melodic my toes and eak purest” sensibilities to appeal on my sp nade. The sound to both sexes. B atten down the hat lig hter fluid gre es 9/10 THE ches folks, loud women in live hand hite Strip M MAGAZIN USIC the area” o n top of a rocit y of the W iouxsie E narchic fe with hints of S MA NCH E STER MU has the a erapy SIC ge Th and vinta ees.” And T he Bansh EAL MS ROCK R
  • 5. international pre “Two‘furieuses’ rock n roll flowing with ss in their veins, We Rock Like Girls Don’t: een We Rock Like Girls Don’t naam die klopt als een bus. Een hit like guys gitaar/drum duo, ironisch gezien with a most f e m a l e beiden meiden, die de weide t o u c h overstemmen met hun rock. seducing both guys Nummers zoals Welcome to my and girls. This is hot..they enjoy world blijven in je hoofd zitten themselves madly en maken je nieuwsgierig naar on sacred melodies based on muscular de rest van hun repertoire. Een riffs full of finesse which aanrader om nadien ook eens op effortlessly fuse into a powerful and yet subtle te zoeken op iTunes. assault. WRLGD are a carnal communion between the ROCK WAUBERG FESTIVAL, JULY 2010 indomitable Scottish Ros on guitar and the Mediterranean warmth of drummer Vas. This is a rock n roll hot and full of pheromones that just possesses you.” PHOTOROCK.COM, CHARLATAN CLUB, JULY 2010 “From the first note, Ros and Vas pull in the attention in the room. Strong tension and Ros’ extraordinary voice transport the enormous dynamics of the duo. Two experienced, powerful women tell “Avec We Rock Like Girls Don’t on the story of scenes s’aventure dans le spécial. Ce duo lived through their londonien féminin guitare-batterie qui music. They completely inspired with the hits ‘I just wanna stick my head ne paie pas de mine fait dans un rock in the bass drum’, ‘Queen of Heavy énergique qui pour autant ne laisse pas Metal’ and ‘Rock n Roll Freak’. The les mélodies sur le bord de la route. two women complement each other Grosses guitares fuzzées et batterie just as well as their punk guitar hypnotique, on pense aux Breeders sound and furious drums, two souls ...ou à un Elastica sous amphét’. En in harmony? We want to hear their tout cas, c’est la claque de la soirée ; un sound on the German stage again truc “pan dans ta gueule !” comme on soon!” aimerait en voir plus souvent.” SCENE2ACT.DE, SOUNDS MUSIC HALL, ESSEN, JULY 2010 Rock’n’Roll Rebel Club, Moen, Belg ium, October 2009, rockpixels.free.fr
  • 6. Mokerdrums, feedback, distortion, herrie, hapering, en na tien seconden: de bevrijdende killer riff. De groove is gevonden, en we zijn vertrokken op één van de meest opwindende rockroetsjbanen van 2009. Ros uit Glasgow verhuist met haar gitaar naar Londen en plaatst een advertentie: ‘Rock-’n-rollfreak gezocht.’ Zo leert ze Vas kennen, die van haar Griekse vader geen gitaar mocht spelen en dus maar trommelstokken kocht. Aanvankelijk speelt ene X mee op bas, maar zij stapt op (het liedje ‘The Power of Three’ blijft wel). Het resterende duo werkt twee jaar aan ‘How Did It Get to This’, doet alles zelf en neemt op telkens als het genoeg steungeld heeft gespaard. ‘We rock like girls don’t’ schrijven ze als verkooppraatje op een demo. Het wordt de groepsnaam. Opener ‘Violence’ geeft meteen twee invloeden prijs: Queens of the Stone Age en PJ Harvey, met een vette verwijzing naar ‘Sheela-Na-Gig’. Wat volgt is zo’n onwelvoeglijke oproer van oneliners en gratuit gitaargeweld dat de jonge Joan Jett spontaan voor de geest floept. ‘Queen of Heavy Metal’ en ‘I Just Wanna Stick My Head in the Bass Drum’ heten twee hoogtepunten (dat de Ramones nooit op zulke geniale titels gekomen zijn!). De volgende regel in dat laatste nummer gaat zo: ‘I just wanna kiss you hard until you come’. Groove, guts én goesting: hallo, Chokri? Na ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Freak’ - Elastica op maat van The Stooges en straks de coolste feel good hit of the summer sinds ‘MF From Hell’ van The Datsuns - halen deze Eaglettes of Death Metal even de bottine van het gas voor de powerballad ‘Photograph’ (‘Afrekening’-materiaal). ‘How Did It Get To This’: elf smerige vluggertjes op dik dertig minuten door twee vuilgebekte rock- wijven die even strak samenspelen als ze eruitzien. Moeder, dáárom leven wij. ‘Drums, feedback, noise, glitchs and after ten seconds the killer riff that sets us free. The groove is found and we are off on one of the most exciting rock rollercoasters of 2009.” HUMO “How Did It Get to This” von We Rock Like Girls Don’t **** Was Verstärker können, können nur Verstärker. Etwa: aus einer einzelnen Gitarre eine Dampfwalze machen. Die etwas unglücklich benannten We Rock Like Girls Don’t bestehen gerade mal aus einem Schlagzeug und einer Gitarre, doch die Wunder der Amplifikation bescheren dem britischen Damenduo auf ihrem Debüt einen Sound, schwer wie Buckingham Palace und breit wie der Motorway 1. Der runderneuerte Led-Zeppelin-Sound mit der Tieflader-Gitarre und den Presslufthammer-Drums ließe das Duo als 20 Jahre verspätete Grun- geband durchgehen, wenn da nicht diese wütenden Frauenstimmen wären, die doch eher an PJ Harvey als an L7 erinnern. Der Gesang ist die einzige Spur Verletzlichkeit, die das Album sich gönnt. Ein Glück, denn sonst wäre es eine langweilige Stonerrockplatte geworden. Von Gregor Kessler “A sound as heavy as Buckingham Palace and as wide as the M1 but with a vulnerablility reminiscent of PJ Harvey” 4/5 FINANCIAL TIMES DEUTSCHLAND Die Perfekten und die Ruppigen We Rock Like Girls Don’t Rock in Freiburg Da passte das Konzert am Samstag im bis zum Anschlag gefüllten The Great Räng Teng Teng wie die Faust aufs Auge. Dass sie eine reine Mädchenband seien, sei ein Unfall, hat Sängerin/Gitarristin Ros einmal gesagt, da waren We Rock Like Girls Don’t noch zu dritt. Von der damaligen Bassistin stammte der Slogan “I Hate Girl Bands”, der auch heute noch auf den Fan-T-Shirts steht. Schlagzeugerin Vas mischt nach einer Unterbrechung wieder mit, seit drei Jahren versuchen Ros, die mit ihren kurzen Haaren aussieht wie die junge Mia Farrow, und ihre sportliche Mitstreiterin zu zweit, ein wenig gegen den Strom zu schwimmen. Mit heftigem Gitarrenrock spielen sie an gegen Sexismus, Klischees, Trends und Angepasstsein. Kein hoffnungsloser Fall, denn die beiden sind wirklich gut. Ros singt mit fast zerbrechlicher Stimme wilde Rock-’n’-Roll-Texte, verzichtet auf jegliche Posen von “Rock-Schlampen” (so heißt das heutzutage), dafür klingt die Gitarre wie eine zackige Dreckschleuder. Titel wie “Queen of Heavy Metal”, “Rock ’n’ Roll Freak” oder “Out of Control” sprechen eine deutliche Sprache, die Stücke aber arbeiten mit Brüchen, ver- querer Rhythmik und fast schon versteckten Refrains. Eine reizvolle, unperfekte Mixtur, die nur im Vergleich mit aktuellen Images widersprüchlich wirkt. We Rock Like Girls Don’t tun auch nichts anderes als das, was zartbesaitete Männer seit Jahren tun. http://www.badische-zeitung.de/nachrichten/kultur/die-perfekten-und-die-ruppigen--13368131.html
  • 7. features and live reviews Nice n Sleazy, Glasgow Vas Antoniadou, drummer with We Rock Like Girls Don’t is a rock behemoth. An open handed demi-godess of the skins. Seriously, she picks up her sticks and Thor slopes off. Yet, with an as- tounding subtlty. She adds more flourish and flair to one roll than most thumpers manage in a lifetimes work. Frankly breathtaking. And worth the price of entry alone. And brilliantly, that’s not even the half of it. Up front we have T H E H E RYeah. In the beginning Roz Cairney. A L D there was the riff; then there was Roz. I have no idea what the hell she’s playing through, but the guitar is like a wall. You know when scientists do that stuff where you can listen to glaziers or mountains. This is what you expect to be the results. If the soundman’s been slacking tonight, he can’t help but wake up now. And, with a voice like a not-annoying PJ, she can be both terrifying and deeply vulnerable. And, even, at the same time. There’s the rumbling groove of Queen Of Heavy Metal. The careering don’t-try-this-at-home holler of I Just Wanna Stick My Head In The Bass Drum. The exhilarating pogo like a loon ramalama of Rock ‘n Roll Freak. It’s irresistible. As in ‘resistance is futile’. Over the next few weeks people will be paying stupid money to see anemic boy bands (like Metallica and AC/DC) peddle their watery brand of (guaranteed over-extended) rock. These people are idiots. Tonight is the launch of stunning debut album How Did It Get To This?. There’s party poppers, treats, drinks laid on and a raffle. Puny bands of Glasgow take note! And quake Tony Kiernan
  • 8. 93 Feet East London Barfly Review The Purple Turtle **** Next up was We Rock Like Girls Onward, then, to a Monarch Of the bands on show, Don’t and, quite bloody frankly, that proves to be on the most un-Keane-like (and, a reason to petition against the heaving side, doubtless consequently, best) were the BBC’s arse-hole decision to shut because the evening’s mighty We Rock Like Girls the station. Two people making attractions include We Rock Don’t, who tourdates first such a glorious noise should Like Girls Don’t, who still encountered as a three-piece be standing for parliament, but have one of our favourite names on the toilet circuit at some years ago. They have they’re not, they’re standing and grinding and riffing for you, dear the moment and are always since slimmed-down to a duo listeners. Go and see them. mentioned in glowing terms without losing an ounce of the Really. on this here site. And we’re visceral ferocity that always Paul Pledger going to glow again! Among made them such a compelling fempoppers, they’re fairly live act. close in the glamour stakes to Le Tigre, and their chop- Comparisons with PJ Harvey ’em-out brand of every-song- are justified, though WRLGD could-be-our-last punkoid prefer to leave all the rough bombing keeps enough edges on show and refuse wilful Slitsoid personality to to indulge in shoe-gazy self- tower above some of their analysis - their songs are raw, more generic counterparts. Moreover, in the nigh on cathartic and to-the-point, year and a half since last brilliant live material, in other they prowled in our path, words. ‘Violence’ and ‘I Just they seem to have become Want To Stick My Head In The noticeably grubbier. A very Bass Drum’ were highlights, good thing, naturally. but a punchy set never sagged Iain Moffat for a moment. Check them out on our website and catch them live. Terrific. Richard Hodkinson 93 Feet East ***** www.remotegoat.co.uk Rockers across the wireless would be bowing down to We Rock like Girls Don’t. These two girls had the energy, ferocity and ability of the best of Queens of the Stone Age, they made White Stripes sound like a high school debut act. These understated Glaswegians punched out ribcage vibrating ‘Violence’ and their next single ‘Welcome to My World’. A gig / tune not to be missed if you are fed of indie miserablism. Emita Mee
  • 9. CMU: Rock Like Girls Don’t have quite a self explanatory name, which is handy. Glaswegian guitar- Female duo We ist/vocalist Ros Cairney recruited Greek drummer Vas Antoniadou through Loot, and after a period of what one might call ‘musical differences’, the pair are firmly together in their current incarnation, wowing all the right people. The girls are now ready to unleash their debut album ‘How Did It Get To This’ - available to download right now, and physically released on 6 Apr - on their own label, Distort. Here are Ros Cairney’s answers to our Same Six Questions. Q1 How did you start out making music? I started piano lessons at six years old and violin lessons at school when I was seven years old. Unfortunately, the violin teacher seemed very old with a red face, and he had hair coming out his nostrils and told me I had lovely eyelashes. I first played live in the school orchestra and remember turning the violin on its side like a guitar and playing riffs. After I heard The Beatles I knew I had to have a guitar. My parents bought a Spanish guitar to share with my brother who was having guitar lessons (to my great annoyance) and we both immediately started writing songs and playing them to each other. I saved up my school dinner money and bought a white Les Paul copy for £75. We discovered Boss Metalizer pedals, The Pixies and a love affair with distortion began. I formed a band with my brother and his school friends. Vas wasn’t allowed to play guitar by her Greek dad but rebelled and bought a drum kit with her grant money when she went to Uni and promptly joined about five bands to make up for lost time. Q2 What inspired your latest album? Our debut album is inspired by each other and our desire to leave a record of our songs and the great energy we always generate when we play music. It says “We Was Here!” It is also very much a reflection of our frustration, our fights as we turned on each other and our determination not to be defeated by circumstances. Our bassist left to reform a band with her brother, our original sessions were deleted by the first studio we recorded in, my JCM 800 Marshall Head amp was stolen from my flat. We traced it through eBay to a music shop in Islington, staked out the shop then grabbed it as the owner screamed he was getting the police and we screamed that we needed it to finish the album! Some bastard had nicked it and sold it cheap to get money for drugs. We have financed everything by credit cards, jobseekers allowance, private guitar tuition, and family donations. The album will be released on our own label. This is our resistance, our “little bit of creation” to quote the last song ‘Violence Is In The Air’. In a wider context it is how it felt to be living in London in 2007. Q3 How do you go about creating a track? I write songs at home on guitar and work on them further with Vas, we gig them and then four track our ideas in her attic. This album was recorded over the last two years as money allowed in Glasgow, London and Devon. We were keen to get live, raw recordings and the last sessions we did at the end of 2007 with Mark Freegard in his Glasgow studio were very organic. He is very quick to capture our drum, guitar and vocal sounds and that meant we didn’t overwork anything in the studio. Vas and I recorded the bass on much of the album ourselves after we had played live guitar and drum takes. We have half of our second album written and hope someone will give us a publishing deal to help us. Q4 Which artists influence your work? PJ Harvey’s early albums, The Breeders’ ‘Pod’ album, The Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’ album, Elastica live when they were a sleazy rock n roll band, John Lennon Plastic Ono Band. John Lennon’s direct words, grinding rhythm guitar playing and minimal melody with riff type songs (eg ‘Cold Turkey’, ‘I Found Out’) are a big influence. Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time? Thanks for listening to us, hope the music makes you feel alive and powerful. That’s how it makes us feel. Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future? Our ambition, now that we are finally releasing our debut album, is to play live every night for weeks like a mean rock n roll machine, to give up jobs which waste our time and to improve with the next album! http://www.cmumusicnetwork.co.uk/ssq/werocklikegirlsdont.html
  • 10. s et list VIOLENCe DON’T KNO W WHAT LO VE IS WELCOME TO MY WORLD ROCK’N’ROLL FREAK QUEEN OF HEAVY M ETAL THE POWER OF THR EE YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR PROBLEM IS STILL BELIEVE FEELING LONELY NO W YOU’RE NOT MY LOV ER HIP TO YOU SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING OUT OF CONTROL I JUST WANNA STIC K MY HEAD RUM IN THE BASS D DO I HAVE TO SCR EAM
  • 11. Vas T ing s to d o h Boo k van an d cro ss Tourdates ing EN Finish E PK S Treue BREM 19th July - M Pay Pro n tapr in t MBURG nsortium, HA 20th July - Co Co llect Merch y OSNABRUCK 21st July - Big Buttinsk Boo k st u d i0 uncker Club, BERLIN Wo rk o n n ew so ng 22nd July - D s! EN unds M usic Hall, ESS 23rd July - So LGIUM auberg Fest ival, PEER, BE 24th July - Rock W tan Club, G ENT, BELGIUM 25th July - Charla IUM s Feesten, OOSTEND, BELG 11th August, Paulu erke, ROESE LARE, BELGIUM 15th August - ‘t Sjampett GE, BELGIUM house, LEFFIN ed Devils Club Ros er - R 25th Septemb en, ions@The M onarch, Camd er -T ourdates Sess 29th Septemb LONDON h, Camden, The Monarc r - Tourd ates Sessions@ 27th Octorbe LONDON en, ions@The M onarch, Camd er - T ourdates Sess 24th Novemb LONDON
  • 12. Discography Cat: Girls Rock 02 CD Cat: Girls Rock 01 Head In 1.Rock’n’Roll Freak/ Hip To You 2.I Just Wanna Stick MyControl The Bass Drum/ Out Of Cat: Girls Rock 03 Dig Cat: Girls Rock 04 Dig 3. The Power Of Three EP 4. Violence W E WE L C O t to this M E LIKE ROC GIR K did it ge how T O DON LS ’T M Cat: Girls Rock 06 Dig Cat: Girls Rock 05 CD Y W O R L D 5. How Did It Get To This LP 6. Welcome To My World/ Feeling Lonely Now