Indie Music Women’s Featured Artist of the Day is…
Test Card Girl (@testcardgirlmusic)
Test Card Girl is a solo project by Manchester, UK singer/songwriter Catherine Burgis who started unexpectedly writing songs in 2019 aged 35. Bored of an admin-based existence, Catherine set off on a song-writing journey into all corners of her mind, simultaneously becoming a stand-up comedian touring the country with a novelty miniature keyboard.
In late 2019 she began working with producer Dave Fidler which received an Arts Council England grant in September 2020 for development and release by April 2021. Her first single featured on Tom Robinson’s (BBC 6Music) ‘ Fresh On the Net ‘Fresh Faves’ list in June 2020. She takes her name from the iconic image of the girl and clown used on UK television to signal the end of evening broadcasting – a girl trapped in a technicolour world of screens and machines.
Test Card Girl shared with me what it means to her to be an indie music woman artist:
“I think it’s an amazing time to be a woman and an artist because the doors are wide open for you to be whoever you want to be. I feel like with trailblazers like Christine and the Queens and Billy Nomates, leading the way there’s move away from the constant scrutiny on how women look over to what they can actually do and I’m all for being an artist who celebrates that.”
You can hear Test Card Girl’s single, “Holds Me Down” on our Spotify Playlist.
