Louise Distras, live at Whelan´s, Dublin, Ireland, 13/08/2013, supporting the Street Dogs.
23 mins., HD.
Bio
Cut from a similar cloth to the legendary Billy Bragg or the new huge, Frank Turner, LOUISE DISTRAS is the “the only new generation punk artist to catch the eye of the mainstream UK press since the Sex Pistols!” She’s a woman with a clenched fist full of protest songs that target injustice, chauvenism and bigotry and is now making her own mark as an activist in our urban sprawl. With “passion, authenticity and youth – Distras is poised to single-handedly reinvigorate the punk scene” in 2013.
Described as ‘the 21st Century Joe Strummer who personifies punk rock spirit, free-thinking and the renegade soul’, Louise Distras is the sworn enemy of injustice, apathy and X Factor culture – Simon Cowell’s plague of commercially-engineered pop stars sucking the life out of auto tuners. Girl groups like The Saturdays “embarrass the music scene,” she says.
Nirvana inspired Louise to pick up a guitar at the tender age of thirteen. Twelve years on, she uses it as a weapon to push a politicised brand of hard-hitting contemporary folk.
Her first single ‘The Hand You Hold’, set out to “empower young women.” It was angry, and pointed, and “an anthem for female empowerment”, asking the media: ‘Who are you to say/we should look this way?’“I’m sick of the way women and young girls are reduced to stereotypes and exploited,” says Louise, 25, who is proud to be putting the purpose back into pop.
Upcoming Concerts
Aug 18 : Der Alte Schlachthof (w/ Street Dogs), Eisenach, Germany
Aug 24 : Coretex 25 Years Fest (w/ Street Dogs), Berlin, Germany
Sep 01 : WTFest at The Joiners, Southampton, United Kingdom
Sep 06 : Booze Fusion Festival, Leicester, United Kingdom
Sep 07 : Dirty Weekend Festival, Wrexham, United Kingdom
Sep 21 : Undercover Festival, Woking, United Kingdom
Oct 17 : The Gateway, Calgary, Canada
Nov 01 : Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, United Kingdom
Nov 10 : Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, United Kingdom
Nov 30 : Bannermans, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Links
http://www.louisedistras.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/louisedistras
http://www.twitter.com/louisedistras
http://www.youtube.com/louisedistras
