Name: OUR GIRL + Nadedja // Three Tanners Bank
Start: 2024-11-29T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Three Tanners Bank

$OUR GIRL + Nadedja \/\/ Three Tanners Bank$

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Our Girl
Three Tanners Bank, North Shields
29.11.24
The best bands thrive not just because of their songs, ambition, or however much groundwork's already been laid.
Equally crucial is their dynamic: the way each member coils themselves around the other, allowing someone at the front to thrive, while the background whirrs with its own invention. At first, it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what makes Our Girl so special, or why the Brighton – formed, London – based trio’s music stands out within a busy crowd of fellow guitar – wielding -types.
Our Girl announce the release of their new album The Good Kind due out 8th November via Bella Union and available to preorder. To accompany the announcement the band have shared new single “Something About Me Being a Woman”, a track on which Our Girl singer/guitarist Soph Nathan turns over a remark from an acquaintance that was at best “just bad timing” and, at worst, brazen misogyny. The track is all the more lacerating for Nathan’s attention to nuance, building to an explosive climax when her suppressed anger finally spills forth, backed by snarling guitar and crashing cymbals.

Commenting on the track Soph Nathan says: “This song felt like the perfect place to put a lot of frustration after running out of patience with someone who wasn’t treating me very well. I think it’s important to give people the benefit of the doubt, but in this case it went too far, and I got tired of dealing with someone else’s preconceptions, and how they think they’re entitled to treat me. A big theme of this album is making the best of things. It’s a loving record, but in this song I just wanted to let the frustration out”