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Inspired by a lack of intersectionality in the U.K.'s D.I.Y. punk scene, Big Joanie formed in an effort to redress the balance. Marrying '60s girl group melodies with riot grrrl attitude, the London-based trio brought Black feminist punk to a predominantly white male arena with their 2018 debut Sistahs and 2022's Back Home. The foundations of the band were built after a 2013 post Stephanie Phillips put online, seeking like-minded women to start a Black feminist punk band to address the lack of diversity in the D. Read more on Last.fm

Steven Umoh grew up in Calabar, Nigeria. He was raised by his grandmother; his mother had moved to the UK to escape Umoh's father, who was abusive. Early in his life, Umoh primarily listened to bootleg rap, particularly Eminem, Usher, Nelly, Snoop Dogg and Ciara. Umoh moved to live with his mother in England at the age of 17, but stayed active in the Nigerian music scene. He grew up a devoutly religious Christian, but became less so after he attended university in Norwich. Read more on Last.fm

Davey Graham (also known as Davy Graham) was a widely influental, eclectic guitarist most famous for his instrumental song Anji (also spelt Angi or Angie), mastery of which, for a period in the 1960s, was the prerequisite of joining many British folk clubs. Davey is also cited as an influence by guitarists such as John Martyn, Bert Jansch, Paul Simon and Jimmy Page, and was a major factor behind the British folk-rock revolution of the 1960s. Davey's own style is impossible to neatly categorise Read more on Last.fm

Labi Siffre (born June 25, 1945) is an English poet, songwriter, and singer. Born the fourth of five children to a Barbadian/Belgian mother and a Nigerian father and raised in Bayswater and Hampstead, London, he was educated at a Catholic monastery school, St Benedict's School in Ealing. His musical influences included Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Jimmy Reed, Wes Montgomery, Billie Holiday, and Mel Tormé. In July 1964, he met his partner Peter Lloyd Read more on Last.fm

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Coby Sey is a songwriter, producer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and DJ born and based Lewisham, London. After years spent buzzing around the DIY artist circuitry of South East London, Sey has developed a distinctive presence as an artist and performer. Sey's long-term collaborators include Mica Levi and Tirzah, as well as with TYSON, Laurel Halo and Speakers Corner Quartet, among others. He is also a founding member of London’s CURL collective (with Levi and Brother May) Read more on Last.fm

Linda Lewis (born Linda Ann Fredericks in West Ham, London on 27 September 1950; died 3 May 2023) was an English pop and soul vocalist, a songwriter and guitar player, renowned for her vocals. She is remembered for the singles "Rock-a-Doodle-Doo" (1973), "Sideway Shuffle" (1973), and her version of Betty Everett's "Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" (1975). Her discography includes solo albums, Lark (1972), Not a Little Girl Anymore (1975), Woman Overboard (1977), and the later Second Nature (1995). Read more on Last.fm