Indie Music Women’s Featured Artist of the Day is…
Caitlin Lavagna, Singer/Drummer of Big Wednesday.⠀(@caitlinlavagna / @bigwednesdayband)⠀
Photo credit: Charlotte Ware @charlotteware ⠀
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Post-romantic Indie for lovers and dancers. A London-based quartet focused on crafting feel-good yet heartfelt Indie-Pop tunes. With rock & roll energy and a knack for instant pop hooks, the band blends retro guitar music with honest, soulful songwriting.⠀
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Caitlin shared with me what it means to her personally to be an indie music woman artist: ⠀
“When I sing on my drum kit, there’s just no other feeling like it. It’s very difficult to explain. The musicality and power from all of my limbs moving in sync (or not) with each other whilst my voice belts into the microphone in harmony with the band above the booming music is exhilarating. I love the control, concentration, and ‘showWOMANship’ it takes, alongside there being challenge and dare in every beat, new tempo and groove. ⠀
If me being a woman makes me stand out for being an indie artist and drummer then… cool. Ultimately I do believe that any female can and does drum and create indie music as well as any male musician. That said, I do understand that being female and playing the drums makes me unique especially.
One of my hopes and ambitions is that me being in ‘Big Wednesday’ inspires and encourages female drummers and indeed female Indie artists to be themselves, join bands, create original music and dress how they want to dress whilst doing so. They should know that being female doesn’t make them any different. Music is a universal language that we all understand, enjoy and use as communication irrelevant of gender, race, ethnicity, class, or age.”⠀