Be Charlotte and Gayle Anderson
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This week, we're at Dundee’s Cooper Gallery, celebrating the city’s She-Town history with two local legends…
Gayle Anderson’s a writer, broadcaster and the producer of the stunning Looking For Esther podcast, which is absolutely vital listening, and back in the day she worked at Dundee’s DC Thomson as the pop editor, and agony aunt, of Jackie Magazine…
Be Charlotte is a songwriter, performer and pop star on the rise, who makes music and runs her own record label from the city, and who’s just released a new single with DJ Arielle Free.
Charlotte’s glorious debut album, Self Help and Fictional Doubts, was released earlier this year, and has led to her crashing the American album charts - she’s currently at Number Two - thanks to Rod Wave’s sampling of its closing track, Will Anybody Be Out There…
We had a wander round a fab exhibition called The Ignorant Art School / Sit In 4 / Outside The Circle, which celebrates feminist and LGBT resistance, collective action and the power of art…
It features work from Audrey Lorde, Derek Jarman, Sam Ainsley and Maud Sulter, alongside grassroots media, tapestry, video footage, and some really fascinating archive material documenting radical, brilliant Dundee women like Ethel Moorhead and Mary Brooksbank…
But I started with Charlotte - and this brilliant chart success… After all, it’s not every day you’re in the Billboard Top 200, ahead of Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift…
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