Draft:Salvation Jane - Canberra's First All-Female Rock Band
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Comment: Still fails WP:NBAND Theroadislong (talk) 15:56, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: Doesn't meet WP:NBAND. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 09:53, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: why is this titled First Salvation Jane? Theroadislong (talk) 13:52, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
Salvation Jane was the first all-women, feminist rock band in Canberra, Australia.[1]
Salvation Jane played regular live gigs on the Canberra pub circuit performing a mix of rock, punk and folk.
Its setlists included songs that highlighted women's rights, LGBTQIA+ rights and social justice issues.
Salvation Jane headlined concerts fundraising for Women's Refuge and Rape Crisis as well as performing at events that highlighted feminist issues, workers' rights and anti-nuclear causes.
Collaboration with Women on a Shoestring
[edit]In 1983 - 1984 Salvation Jane collaborated with the Canberra women's theatre group Women on a Shoestring to produce an avant-garde style of theatre and music that combined conventional theatre performance by the actors with cabaret performance by the band.[2]
The scenes were juxtaposed with songs used to interpret mood and characterisation. This deliberately broke the theatre convention by drawing the audience in and out of the theatrical 'fourth wall'.
Four original theatre/music productions were created and performed from this collaboration:
- 'Did You Say Love'
- 'The Fourth Tomorrow'
- 'Ms Adventures Out' and
- 'We're Not Ratbags on Rebel Radio 10 10 10.'
Six year career 1979-1985
[edit]The band performed gigs in Sydney, Adelaide and the southern coast of New South Wales but did not produce any studio recordings in its 6 year career. Some of its performances were recorded live by Canberra Radio Station 2XX who supported and promoted Salvation Jane.
Its impact on the Canberra music scene however is evidenced by references to the band in mulitple news articles, and in scholarly works such as Kathy Sport's thesis Women's music in Australia published in 2015[3].
The Canberra Times announced that the Salvation Jane had disbanded in 1985, noting that it had proved doubters wrong after "people had pooh-poohed the idea of an all female band, saying that sustaining that line-up was impossible" [4].
Centenary of Canberra "Big Birthday" Event Organisers Invite the Wrong Salvation Jane
[edit]In 2013 the ACT Government's[5] Centennial of Canberra Committee identified Salvation Jane as one of the notable Canberra bands of the 1980's and invited them to perform at the 13 March 2013 Canberra Rocks concert with other significant Canberra bands of the eighties.[6]
Unfortunately the planning committee inadvertently contacted the wrong band.[7] Instead of contacting the first Salvation Jane, it opened negotiations with a Melbourne all-women music group who had taken the same name several years after the original Salvation Jane had disbanded. This group were not connected to the original Salvation Jane band.
The error was not recognized until Centennial publicity had been widely published.[8] The incorrect band were subsequently withdrawn from the Centennial music line up. Unfortunately the mistake was not picked up in time for Canberra's Salvation Jane band to re-form.
Origin
[edit]Canberra ACT Australia
Genres
[edit]Rock, punk, spoken word
Personnel
[edit]- Maureen Cummuskey. Vocals, rhythm guitar, mandolin, bass guitar 1979 - 1985
- Cascade (Mary) Leggett. Vocals, bass guitar, harmonica, percussion 1979 - 1985
- Mary McMullin. Keyboards. 1979 -1981
- Jude Gates. Keyboards 1981- 1985
Drummers:
- Tina Tsiamas 1980 -1981
- Carla Respondek 1982-1983
- Kate Barnett 1984
- Cate Carr 1984 - 1985
Sound technicians:
- Debbie Neuhaus 1979 – 1980
- Lea Collins 1980 - 1985
Guest musicians:
- Virginia Walsh. Flute
- Molly Jane Ellis. Synthesizer
- Bronny Evans. Flute
- Nancy Nicholls. Saxophone, guitar
Selected gig list
[edit]- 26 Sep 1980 The Labor '80 Show, featuring Robyn Archer and Friends, supported by Franklyn B. Paverty and Salvation Jane. Canberra Theatre[9]
- 25 April 1981 The Rouge Benefit Dance, featuring Salvation Jane and the Msfits performing at the ANU Refectory[10]
- 21 June 1981 Benefit concert with Judy Small and Salvation Jane at the ANU Arts Centre.[11]
- 19 Oct 1981 Report to the Electorate, Canberra Labor Club
- 11 Feb 1984 Salvation Jane, Domestic Dirt and Kate's Birthday at the Canberra Worker's Club[12]
- 2 Feb 1985 ANU Bar, Canberra
References
[edit]- ^ Maggie Hamill, 'MUSE, Arts and Entertainment in Canberra', Number 12, 6 November to 17 December 1981. Held in the collection of the ACT Heritage Library
- ^ Women on a Shoestring founder Camilla Blunden talks about the theatre company Women on a Shoestring's collaboration with Salvation Jane.
- ^ Women's music in Australia: space, place, bodies, performance. Sport, Kathy (2015). Macquarie University. Thesis.
- ^ 'All-female band Salvation Jane calls it a day,' Shelley Dempsey, Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Thursday 31 January 1985, page 10
- ^ https://www.act.gov.au/
- ^ 'Word on the Street', Sydney Morning Herald, 7 February 2013
- ^ "English: Letter from Senior Program Manager of the Centenary of Canberra apologising for negotiating with the wrong Salvantion Jane band" (PDF). 15 February 2013.
- ^ "English: Letter from Executive Director of ACT Culture and Communications apologising to band Salvation Jane for erroneous publicity regarding the appearance of Salvation Jane as part of Canberra's Big Birthday Celebrations 11 March 2013" (PDF). March 2013.
- ^ "Advertising". Canberra Times. 13 September 1980.
- ^ "Alison Alder - Rouge benefit dance. Salvation Jane, Msfits - Search the Collection, National Gallery of Australia".
- ^ "Benefit concert with Judy Small and Salvation Jane ... ANU Arts Centre".
- ^ "FACE". Woroni. 24 February 1984.
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