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One of the most eagerly anticipated albums in years, Skinny Girl Diet’s follow up album “Ideal Woman” is already getting regular play on BBC Radio 6 (by Iggy Pop, no less) and the London band’s been featured in just about every music blog/magazine you can imagine.

The band won’t even be old enough to drink during their upcoming US tour, and yet Delilah Holiday & Ursula Holiday have been doing this for almost eight years now.. SGD is raw, bleeding, and beautiful, a perfect convergence of Angela Carter and Angela Davis and The Powerpuff Girls. Inspired by punk and grunge and being alive & awake in the 21st century, their sophomore album—self-released in the UK so they can control the product, released in the US on HHBTM Records b/c it’s the only label you can trust—is as cathartic & angry & moving as anything we’ve heard in a long time.

Anyway, they don’t need us to speak for them when they speak so beautifully for themselves. The rest of this one-sheet is culled from recent SKD interviews.

‘We don’t play three chord songs, really fast drum beats, and scream. We play from our emotions rather than conforming to a musical genre.’

‘I hate labels. We want to completely defy everything.’

‘We want to make music for girls to feel powerful and liberated. Fair enough to people writing songs about heartbreak, but when I’m sad I want to listen to music that’s about more than just love affairs. We want to make music for girls like us.

’We think the lack of meaningful lyrics and politics in current music is shocking, everyone is too afraid to speak out and would rather sit on the fence. But when little girls feel unequal to boys but can’t process why, a teenage girl sees a diet billboard and feels inadequate or the police stop an innocent black boy because of the colour of his skin; what then? We’re just gonna welcome these forms of oppression with open arms? We think not.’

‘We think the fight has made us stronger as no male band has ever experienced what we have. Obviously our society sucks dry anything that is valuable and likes to keep you weak because they can exploit you at your lowest. Self confidence is a way of fighting back against the media and the society shaped people who are insecure that want to drag you down with them…the only way you can is to defy all of this and be you.’

‘I don’t know any girl our age that doesn’t simultaneously listen to 90s R&B. if someone says they don’t like Destiny’s Child you have to question them as a person.’

‘We’re really proud that we’ve got to the point where we are now completely unsigned. We’ve funded our new album ourselves, completely through money we’ve earned as a band. We want to show that it is possible.’

‘The punk scene right now doesn’t feel very punk. It’s very white and male, and even the nostalgic look back hasn’t given women in punk the recognition they deserve. The message of punk has been lost and punk as a movement has been commodified by rich, white capitalism. The so-called scene doesn’t feel very genuine.’

‘I don’t really want to be called ‘Riot Grrrl’ or ‘punk.’ Riot Grrrl was accused of not including people of color—if you did your research, you’d know we wouldn’t be a part of Riot Grrrl at that time. they describe their sound as ‘Three girls playing scratchy, fuzzy, loud, screamy music.’ people should focus less on reviving something from the past and focus more on creating a new movement for the future – one which makes history instead of being some gimmicky fad that fades away.’

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Aesthetic: Skinny Girl Diet

19.10.15 Words by: Farah Haze

With all the negative political and cultural forces trying to crush our self-esteem, it’s no wonder that the empowering spirit of punk is summoned so often.

Skinny Girl Diet are a band who inspire confidence. The North London trio consists of guitarist/vocalist Delilah Holliday, her sister Amelia Cutler, who plays bass, and their cousin Ursula Holliday on the drums. While still in their early teens, the band performed their first gig opening for Viv Albertine of The Slits, who inspired their original name, Typical Girls. By 2013, the band had released two EPs of lo-fi, lyrically potent grunge-punk as Skinny Girl Diet – a sardonic reference to pro-anorexia Tumblr pages.

Ursula Jacket: MISBHV Scarf: Charlotte Simone Skirt: Moschino

Delilah Top: Beyond Retro Trousers: Alexander McQueen from NOTHING SPECIAL Necklace: Stylist's own Earrings: Kirsty Ward 

Amelia Jacket: McQ Alexander McQueen Bra: Candice Bryant Belt: What The Butler Wore Trousers: What The Butler Wore Cuff: Riina O

With the guidance of culturally informed parents and the freedom to explore different eras in a digital age, Skinny Girl Diet’s image is a melting-pot of many influences. In discussion of the style icons that have directly inspired them, Ursula references the radical 90s grunge outfit L7, David Bowie and Sophia Loren; Delilah mentions Marc Bolan, 50s Hollywood star Jayne Mansfield and Frida Kahlo; while Amelia cites actresses such as Lea Seydoux and Winona Ryder.

Amelia Blazer: McQ Alexander McQueen | Bra: Atsuko Kudo | Necklace: Vivienne Westwood from NOTHING SPECIAL | Earrings: Kirsty Ward | Boots: 2NDDAY Delilah Jacket: McQ Alexander McQueen | Skirt: 2NDDAY | Boots: Delilah's own Ursula Jacket: Versace from NOTHING SPECIAL | Top: Claire Barrow | Trousers: Vintage Moschino | Necklace: Ursula's own | Shoes: Fabulously Fetish

For our Aesthetic shoot, we styled Skinny Girl Diet with a combination of retro clothing and pieces from labels such as McQ, Moschino, Vivienne Westwood, Versace, MISBHV and Claire Barrow – who happens to be one of the band’s favourite designers. “She was the first person in fashion to reach out to us a couple of years ago,” they tell us. “Her clothes are divine.”

Delilah Top: Candice Bryant Necklace: Kirsty Ward

Ursula Jacket: Candice Bryant Dress: McQ Alexander McQueen Ring: Lion Studio

Amelia Blazer: McQ Alexander McQueen Bra: Atsuko Kudo Scarf: Charlotte Simone Trousers: McQ Alexander McQueen Rings: Lion Studio

This month, Skinny Girl Diet release their new EP, Reclaim Your Life . Musically, they may have cleaned up their sound a little, but their attitude still exudes righteous ferocity. “ Reclaim Your Life stands for so much,” the band declare, “fighting against all oppressors and getting what society doesn’t want you to have – power, self-love and a strong mind.”

Words: Farah Haze Photographer: Francesca Allen Stylist: Charlotte James Stylist Assistant: Susan Daniel Make up: Sara Argy Hair: Scarlett Burton

Reclaim Your Life is out now via Fiasco Recordings

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Skinny Girl Diet are dressing for war. “The concept is warrior queens,” the punk band’s youngest member Ursula Holliday says while fingering a glittering ornamental crown in an east London photo studio. On The FADER’s shoot, she’s surrounded by the fruits of the three-piece group's costume sourcing trip to a local vintage store the previous day. A nearby sofa is strewn with their spoils: gigantic shell necklaces, medieval chain chokers, and pieces that drip with winking paste rubies. “Amazons; Boudicca,” Ursula explains of today’s inspirations. “Women you don’t fuck with.”

Nearby, her elder sister and band front woman Delilah Holliday is shimmying into a delicately patterned traditional Chinese cheongsam, while Amelia Cutler, their cousin and third member of the group, steps into the room adjusting the straps of an elegant black dress. “99p off eBay,” she beams. “We’re really good at bargains.”

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Breaking boundaries on a budget is a trait that’s come to characterize Skinny Girl Diet, a formidably intelligent north London group that operate under a strict DIY ethos. Everything is done in-house, from the production of their insistent, scrappy rock tunes that have brought them to the attention of The Slits’s punk luminary Viv Albertine , to the slyly original zines they create to further distribute their feminist politics (a recent one included a xeroxed guide titled "How To Spot A Fuckboy").

They’re battle hardened, too. Although the oldest member of the band is only 21, Skinny Girl Diet has existed in various guises since their early teens. "Ursula and me started the band when we were kids," Delilah recounts. "It was called Typical Girls. Then, we felt like we needed to take it more seriously." After discovering their cousin Amelia was learning bass, they asked her to join too.

Their self-contained, refreshingly organic nature has enabled Skinny Girl Diet to become headlining names on London’s DIY scene, without sacrificing the assertive individuality that blasts through on tracks like 2014’s “Nadine Hurley. ” The song was named in honor of the eyepatch-wearing Twin Peaks character . “No one takes her seriously but she’s a strong, powerful woman,” Delilah explains. “I thought if there was a way for me to get people thinking about her, it would be amazing”

A stream of endless shows and two arresting EP releases mean that Skinny Girl Diet’s profile has rocketed in the past three years. In this time, they’ve collaborated with London fashion designer Claire Barrow , they currently host a monthly NTS radio show , and played a divisive Boiler Room set last year (“It was like playing to zombies—[Boiler Room] had to disable the comments on YouTube because people hated it so much”). Yet despite a steadily growing pile of offers from record labels, Skinny Girl Diet remain resolutely independent, refusing to be distracted by the shiny feathers and fur of the record industry. They can get these on their own—and at a cut price to boot.

Your band name is pretty striking. Where did you get it from?

DELILAH: I was scrolling through Tumblr one day and there was a tag called #skinnygirldiet. It was pictures of girls with their ribcages showing—it was sickening. So the name is a sort of social commentary on that. The beauty ideal is skinny, but skinny girls still feel the pressure to diet.

URSULA: Five in ten girls have apparently thought about plastic surgery. Being a part of this band has really opened my eyes; it’s helped me grow, it’s helped me love myself. Imagine if everyone loved themselves. The ‘big money men’ would not be making money.

You did a cover of Dusty Springfield’s “Spooky” for Claire Barrow . How did that come about?

URSULA: She was the first person in fashion to reach out to us and really like what we were doing. Delilah’s always loved her.

DELILAH: She hit us up and we recorded “Spooky” on a boat. At the moment though, we’re trying to focus on the music. We don’t want to be seen as a fashion band at all.

URSULA: Male bands don’t have to deal with that problem. As women, if you’re not focused on your image this industry doesn’t take you seriously. With a punk-type band, you can’t be too glamorous otherwise punks don’t get it, they’re like, “Why are they dressing up?” And when you do roll up, just woken up, with ripped jeans on, people say, “They don’t try, they’re dirty.” You can’t win.

AMELIA: We once got a Guardian review that focused entirely on our outfits. They said I was in “a regulation Riot Grrrl pinafore dress.” I was wearing a turtleneck and a skirt because I’d come straight from uni.

URSULA: I hate labels. We want to completely defy everything. If we’re unique and no one can really pinpoint it, good. As soon as you’re labeled, it’s limiting. That’s why I don’t really want to be called 'Riot Grrrl' or 'punk.' Riot Grrrl was accused of not including people of color—if you did your research, you’d know we wouldn’t be a part of Riot Grrrl at that time.

DELILAH: We have a punk attitude, we were brought up on a DIY ethos—but on the other hand we’re not typically punk. We don’t play three chord songs, really fast drum beats, and scream. We play from our emotions rather than conforming to a musical genre.

“I don’t really want to be called 'Riot Grrrl' or 'punk.' Riot Grrrl was accused of not including people of color—if you did your research, you’d know we wouldn’t be a part of Riot Grrrl at that time.” —Ursula Holliday

How does this labeling affect your audiences?

DELILAH: We either get girls like us or older audiences who went to original punk shows. Which is quite a big compliment. We met these girls who came to our show at DIY Space for London a few months ago and we kept in contact. They just told me, “We’re gonna start a band, you’ve inspired us,” and they’ve actually been rehearsing. I felt so proud that we could have that effect on someone.

More and more artists are talking about the difficulties of being DIY in London right now. How do you manage it?

URSULA: Well, we’re doing the band full time now and it is really hard. But it’s so jokes—we’re playing gigs with people who’ve spent so much money. Their record labels are pushing them, they’ve got about ten grand behind them, and they’re pretending to be a breakthrough artist. Our dad is our manager. He reads all of our emails and has to help us out with everything. Staying grounded is all you can do because the industry will swallow you up otherwise, and you’ll be in masses of debt to a label that doesn’t understand you and puts you on the shelf. To be honest, it’s going pretty well being independent.

AMELIA: We’re not just going to jump on any record label.

DELILAH: The more people from the underground that come through, the less the labels can manipulate the music industry.

You’re women of color playing alternative music. How does the music industry react to that?

URSULA: In shoots, they’re often like, “Can we dress her up like Beyoncé?” The pure audacity to look at the colour of my skin and my curly hair and say, “Hey, she should be playing hip-hop or R&B because she’s mixed race.”

DELILAH: And if it’s bad for us, what was it like for artists like [X-Ray Spex vocalist] Poly Styrene back in the day? Last year, we had the worst shoot with some people we had worked with before, which made it even more unexpected.

AMELIA: It was awful. The stylist called me "a little Oriental girl." You always say you’ll stand up for yourself in these situations, but when you’re actually there it’s much more difficult.

URSULA: I was 17 at the time and they made us wear latex lingerie, pose on motorcycles with our legs spread in a cold studio with no food. We were shivering and no one spoke to us. Men were whipping out their phones and taking pictures of us. Then this old, apparently ‘legendary’ photographer from the '60s started taking pictures of Delilah’s crotch. When we complained, the publication said that we’d never work again and they’d spread it round that we were ‘challenging.’

“We want to make music for girls to feel powerful and liberated. Fair enough to people writing songs about heartbreak, but when I’m sad I want to listen to music that’s about more than just love affairs.” —Delilah Holliday

Skinny Girl Diet is inherently political. Do you think young people are more politically engaged now?

URSULA: You’ve got people on Instagram, writing ‘feminism’ on [underwear] and spouting on about being activists. What are you actually doing? Come to the marches! Create a band where you get shit for actually living your feminism. Go find a like-minded person to share your views with and have a discussion and a debate. Physical things are so important in this internet driven age, and doing things makes you feel like you’ve achieved so much more.

Do you think education is a factor in political disengagement?

AMELIA: Obviously education is really important, but it’s also where the dominant view is enforced. We have a very white curriculum [in Britain].

URSULA: Once I got sent out of class for saying, “Margaret Thatcher is not a role model.” I think it’s very hard to express yourself when you’re taught to comply all the time. I’m dyslexic so it was particularly difficult—the format they taught in didn’t translate to me, but they didn’t get that. And [the U.K. government] aren't putting money in arts; imagine if they were to help people start bands. At school, I was under so much pressure, I was almost suicidal. I had thoughts like, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’ And when I wanted to go to theater school, I couldn’t because they wouldn’t give me a loan and it would cost nine grand.

AMELIA: And we don’t get taught the practical stuff. I don’t know anything about taxes! They don’t prepare you for actual life.

DELILAH : This is why we’re so angry. We want to make music for girls to feel powerful and liberated. Fair enough to people writing songs about heartbreak, but when I’m sad I want to listen to music that’s about more than just love affairs. We want to make music for girls like us.

Skinny Girl Diet will play The Garage, London, on May 14.

Headpieces courtesy of Pebble London ; Hair and make up by Terri Capon.

Meet the The Punk Trio Who's Breaking Musical Boundaries

By Harriet Charity Verney

Photography by Greta Ilieva

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Edited by Andrew Bevan

Sisters Ursula and Delilah Holliday, along with their bass-player cousin Amelia Cutler, make up the singing (and part-time screaming) London-based punk trio Skinny Girl Diet. Their politically charged songs have swept through the city’s music scene over the past year, landing them gigs ranging from a Butlin’s resort to run- down churches in the East End.

U.K. designer Pam Hogg — famous for her custard-yellow hair and for dressing everyone from Kate Moss to the band Siouxsie and the Banshees — recently decked them out in head-to-toe PVC catsuits for their “Silver Spoons” music video, in which they play a vigilante trio (think modern-day Powerpuff Girls — just without the frills).

So where do Skinny Girl Diet feel they fit in? “We don’t!” lead singer and guitarist Delilah exclaims. Drummer Ursula adds that, in the music industry, “being a strong woman means she’s a bitch or a diva; being sexually active is slutty; and being on your period should be a secret, or else you’re seen as gross! When in fact your mama got periods, otherwise you wouldn’t be in the world. Stupid stuff that we should have overcome by now — it’s 2016!” —H.C.V.

In this story: Delilah wears a Holly Fulton sweater. Peter Pilotto skirt. Amelia wears a Mary Benson dress. Ursula wears a Paul Smith shirt. Mary Benson pants. Ursula wears a Holly Fulton coat. Mary Benson pants. Topshop Unique shoes, $240. Amelia wears a Mary Benson jacket. McQ skirt. ASOS thigh-highs, $12. Robert Clergerie shoes. Delilah wears a Holly Fulton coat and pants. Kurt Geiger shoes, $450.

This story was photographed at Fabrique Bakery

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Don't pigeonhole London punks as mere riot grrl copyists

Young women are often told that they should feel lucky, not angry. Things were so much worse thirty years ago, the real struggle is over; and with feminism becoming the favoured (and necessary) cause-celebre for nearly every prominent man or woman, surely there’s nothing to worry about? We’re on the final stretch towards equality, if not already there.

The reality of the situation is why it is refreshing to hear women who are angry, and who are not hiding this fact behind a veil of acceptance or irony. Ideal Woman is a visceral display of unbridled female rage: a powerful force which is often missing in music today. From this, Skinny Girl Diet have inevitably drawn comparisons to every angry feminist ‘girl band’, from Bikini Kill to The Runaways to the Slits, for their roots in punk, grunge and metal; and just for the fact that they are a group of women who aren’t singing love songs.

But comparisons like this aren’t particularly helpful in illuminating Ideal Woman as a record. The album is the product of young women’s experiences in 21st century London, however much it may nod stylistically to its feminist predecessors. Riot grrrl in particular represented too often the white, middle-class feminism of suburbia, excluding women of colour. Core band members Delilah and Ursula Holliday take aim at this white privilege in ‘White Man’: "I wish/ I was a white man/ maybe life would be easier for me… I’m a woman of colour/ so it won’t be long now."

The opening track, 'La Sirena', is typical of what’s to come: thumping, angry guitar carries the song as we’re told, “I’ll eat your heart out/ before you eat mine.” Ideal Woman does one thing and it does it well; throbbing, furious guitars and unpretentious, fierce lyrics. ‘Starfucker’ is a particularly strong track - a grungy, Nirvana-esque intro leads us into calls for "something to change" and mentions of the "chaos inside of you". These are lifted away from being platitudes by the sheer momentum of the track, and the very real wrath behind seemingly innocuous lyrics.

The desire for self-destruction also seeps out of the record’s anger. In 'Witch Of The Waste', the line is blurred between a rejection of men and an overwhelming need for self-annihilation: "I don’t give a fuck about you" turns to, "let’s get drunk/ because I want to forget about you", ending on: "She’s a slut/ and she don’t care." The battle between competing needs for resilience and release is explored during ‘Ideal Woman’ too: "I cried for you/ and I lied for you/ became something I wasn’t/ just for you", a sentiment at odds with the rapidly rising and falling pace of the track, alternating between moments of softness and jags of blind rage.

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Skinny Girl Diet

A London based female band who create brash, Gothic / grunge music.

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• 2018 Aug 24 Aug 26 2018 Reading Festival Reading Festival 2018 Fall Out Boy, Travis Scott, The Kooks, The Wombats, Post Malone…
• 2018 Aug 23 Aug 26 2018 Leeds, Bramham Park Leeds Festival 2018 Kings Of Leon, Courteeners, The Vaccines, J Hus, Krept & Konan…
• Jul 11 2018 London, Shacklewell Arms Skinny Girl Diet
• Jun 30 2018 London, Finsbury Park Queens Of The Stone Age, Iggy Pop, Run The Jewels, The Hives, Deap Vally, Black Honey (1), Skinny Girl Diet, Brody Dalle, Miles Kane, Curtis Harding, Bombino, Hinds, Belako …
• Feb 04 2018 Paisley, The Bungalow Bar Skinny Girl Diet, The Van T's, Delphi
• Jan 29 2018 Bath, Moles Skinny Girl Diet, Tarantina
• Jan 27 2018 Cardiff, The Moon Skinny Girl Diet, The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk, Bob Vylan, Honey , Gung Ho, The D Teez, Free Beer & Bacon, Blood Slugs …
• Oct 18 2017 Tunbridge Wells Forum Yak, Skinny Girl Diet
• Oct 14 2017 Manchester, Night & Day Cafe Yak, Skinny Girl Diet, Yassassin (1)
• Oct 13 2017 Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach Yak, Skinny Girl Diet, HMS Morris

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Skinny Girl Diet: Ideal Woman – Album Review

Ideal Woman ( Fiasco Recordings ) CD/LP/DD

Released: 29 November 2018

Skinny Girl Diet, trimmed down to a duo, release sophomore album and it’s heavy.

Before The White Stripes burst onto the scene at the end of the 90s the idea of a band comprising just a guitar and drums would have been scorned, yet it has now become more commonplace – Slaves being an obvious exceptional example – and now Skinny Girl Diet, on their sophomore release, having seen their bass player depart, have decided to go down that route. It’s a brave decision for there are no hiding places in a duo, no coasting through a song.

What sisters Delilah and Ursula Holliday have fashioned here, on songs honed on the live circuit over the past eighteen months, is a brutal blues-rock/grunge/heavy assault on the ears that is more aggressive, more compact and more cohesive than their debut album – which was no slouch in its own right. There’s a darker edge to them now: the vocals are harsh and guttural during the wild moments, bitter-sweet during the more melodic phases; the guitar is dirty, fuzzy, grunge tinged heavy blues riffs; the drums beating out a hard rocking undercurrent. It’s a righteously heavy sound with solid blues riffs scuttering through the fuzz.

From the opening grunge infused heavy guitar sound of La Sirena you know you’re in for a darker ride with the guitar distorting in front of the steady beat hammering away in the back. Witch of the Waste has the sound of open country America, a road trip between hick towns. It’s got a great guitar riff and drum patterns. Shed Your Skin is hard driven with the sisters seeming to egg each other on to heaver, faster sounds. The vocals are a megaphone scream. The title track, Ideal Woman, starts like a standard love song with the singer declaring she cried for her lover and that she is prepared to change anything about herself, even her soul, for her man. The chorus kicks in heavy and angry. The implication in the lyrics is how the ideal woman for a man is one that he can manipulate, control, change into the image of what he desires. The woman’s identity is subsumed by the man in such a relationship.

Off kilter guitars and syncopated drums create an unsettling sound on Human Zoo, with the vocals blues sounding, it has a soulful, post-punk sound. Whilst next song Starfucker has a sleazy-bar sound to it, it builds up slowly into a very heavy beat. Western Civilisation begins like a lament, the rhythm guitar a little softer and the vocals low down in the mix before bursting like an explosion into the chorus. Outsider is a great headbanging song whilst Timing creates a wall of sound that blasts in like the noise of a distressed mind. Golden has the guitar echoing behind dreamy vocals that come through the mix like through a haze of smoke. Warrior Queens is blues rock heavy with the power unleashed and angry. White Man makes the point of how life is so much easier as a titular gender and race. It has a guitar like anthem and a great blues solo. The final song, Click Bait, has a slow and sleazy beat which speeds up and explodes into an angry punk burst of mayhem that lasts barely over a minute.

With thirteen songs clocking in at 34 minutes, these are songs that hit hard and fast but with surprising nuances along the way. On Ideal Woman, Skinny Girl Diet embrace the heavy blues rock riffs of America, adding a grunge twist and seasoned with a brash, in yer face, North London attitude.

Great stuff.

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