Then Now Next: On the Door (RTRFM at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery)
Have you ever tried to get into a sold-out gig? Maybe you were hassled in the crowded line? Chances are, the folks on the door were the ones in control, and more often than not, they were women.
We asked for their thoughts on ‘working the door’. Hear them, below. (They are identified solely by their initials.)
Hayley Ayres on the term ‘door bitch’
Ingrid van den Berghe on door work, Perth crowds, and Yahtzee
In May of 2021, RTRFM takes over the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at UWA to highlight the amazing, trail-blazing and defiant women who have made the station—and WA music—what it is.
Since its founding in 1977, RTRFM has been hell-bent on helping blaze a trail for women within the industry. As an Artist in Residence at UWA’s Lawrence Wilson Gallery, we’ll continue to do just that with the audio-visual exhibit Then Now Next, featuring photos, stories and ephemera that reveal WA music’s untold feminist history.
Whether they were on the march, behind the mic, on the door, behind the bar, on the stage or behind the scenes, RTRFM will be paying tribute to the women who deserve to be up front and applauded.
Running from 11 May to 5 June 2021, Then Now Next will offer insights and stories from the past five decades, and hopefully inspire the next generation of women to keep ‘burning down the house’.
Image: Brodie Lathby-Cooke working merchandise. Photograph by Sethen Sheehan-Lee
