Georgia Mooney

Episode 2: I’m Not A Female Songwriter - I’m A Songwriter

Solo artist, band member, podcaster, radio host and live music curator Georgia Mooney joins me to chat about.... everything. Mental health, touring, women being treated differently than men in the music industry and how being in band is like being in a sexless marriage.... fun!

Make sure you tune in right to the end. When we got up to the “Final Five” we went on a bit of a tangent, around question two or three, and started talking about Georgia’s experience of being celebrated as an “all girl band” with her work in All Our Exes Live In Texas.

This conversation was fascinating because, as Georgia points out, there’s two sides (actually, there’s probably more) to the conversation. 

On the one side, it IS unusual, statistically speaking, to have a band entirely made up of female writers and musicians. And it’s something that should be celebrated! More celebration of women! More women in the music industry! More women telling women’s stories! Yes please.

On the other hand…. Um. No one refers to Midnight Oil as an all boy band. No one celebrated that four English men got together and decided to form an all male group and call themselves The Beatles. No one talks about how The Wiggles are all men and isn’t that great. Power to men.

As women, we need to reclaim our power. And that means stating that we are here. As women. And every time we do that it could be either really empowering, or really frustrating.

In my opinion, so much depends on the context. So a radio presenter is talking about you being an all girl band? What are the other words around that? What are the implications? What tone of voice are they using? Are they open to having a conversation about what that means for you, what that means for women, and the complexities and intricacies of it? 

That’s what I’m interested in. Not the token “yay a girl band!” But the conversation that exists around the fact that four women got together and decided to form a band - and that that was cause for any conversation at all.

Tune in and fall in love with Georgia Mooney. I guarantee you will.

Also, Georgia has a new podcast “Simply Marvellous” - The silliest and least essential addition to your weekly listens! Join Georgia, Rhys Nicholson and Kyran Wheatley as they watch all the Marvel movies in order, then have a yarn about them over a glass of rosé.