Tonight I'm listening to the new S/T 7" from my friends Hello Bastards and going through some distros in anticipation for HCSUMMER2009 including a visit to Cry Me A River Fest and lotsa amazing tours including xLimp Wristx hurrah.

Also very excited about this new band: xjonathanrossx

homg b1tches! There's an awesome DIY SCREAMO SCENE in Istanbul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111ONE11
eg:
Stevan Flipovic
Circuis Made Flesh
and my fave:
Noisy Sins Of The Insect - free mp3s ahoy!

It's too late to fit Turkey into my itinerary for the next few months though. Thanx to the lovely ihgd, Flopi & I have nice girls to stay with in Minsk & Kiyev, & so far it also looks like Riga is on the list. Apparently there will be a Ladyfest in Finland in late May, so if I can arrange the time off work we'll be getting to that and hopefully St. Petersburg?! I wonder when the all girl skate camp is happening in Sweden this year...

Soon Flopi & I will be sending out a survey on feminism & anarchism in preparation for the workshop we're doing at Ladyfest Cork & Noc Walpurgii (& anywhere else we get invited). We won't be doing London Ladyfest after all because it would mean cutting short our Eastern Europe adventure too soon.

The lineup for Walpurgii is posted and it's dead exciting - Greg Bennick speaking, AMANDA WOODWARD!!  playing! Fab. Clearly we'll have to make our workshop seem extra exciting to get folks along.