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Episode 7 of our Los Angeles season is here! And it’s a beauty: with British feminist surrealist and LA dweller Penny Slinger, who made groundbreaking collage art in the 60s and 70s and was on the Swinging London scene. But, following her first show of erotic art in New York, she practically disappeared. We found her in DTLA where she talked to us about her incredible life: being pals with Lee Miller, living in a turret with pet falcons, finding her way in a male-dominated art world, how tantra revitalised her life and work, performing a real-life sex scene in the only feature film directed by a woman in the 1970s, sensual and sexual liberation, and why desire doesn't diminish with age. She just hopes she lives to see her first retrospective. This one made us blub during the interview! Celebrate women while they’re alive! Presented by @katehutchinsonpow Produced by @hollyloufish Photos by @roxanne_roll Supported by @audiotechnica_eu FFO: #talkart #greatwomenartists

When @audiotechnica_eu said, dya wanna come to Berlin to celebrate our 60th birthday and do a live @thelastbohemianspod, one person was top of the list: queen of the underground, @gutgudrun. She helped define the city’s gothy post-punk, industrial and electronic sound of the late-70s/early-80s with her three ‘M’ bands, Mania D, Malaria and Matador, and has been at the coalface of Berlin’s independent, experimental music scene ever since. We had a long chat and played some of her career bests - including a killer Tina Turner cover. Lovely to see old friends and make new ones: Ralf Obergfell (I used to play his wild Gutterslut nights in London!), @melis_tailored, @russelevado and the AF team, @heikoxhoffmann @henrikschwarzlive @colleencosmomurphy at @classicalbumsundays the night before, and @tashlc @minamusicuk. It’s been a tough old week but it was great to be in this excellent space, hearing great music with great people. Thanks to @audiotechnica_eu @analoguefoundation for having me. The podcast version of the interview will be up v soon 💫

I promised I wouldn’t spam here but I’m just so totally in awe of Johanna Went and I’m sure you will be too. She’s the cult LA performance artist who used to play alongside bands like Fear and the Germs in the 1980s punk scene and whose transgressive, totally chaotic, absurdist, feminist, depraved and often gory performances pre-dated riot grrrl, Lady Gaga’s meat dress and Peaches. It’s just gone live and I hope you love it - @georgierogers on ✂️duties, @hollyloufish on 🎤 duties and a huge thank you to @hatis_noit @browniebonbon77 and @themaracarlyle for the beautiful music. Photos here include the dildo costume we talk about at the start of the episode and the photos I took of her this year in Ventura, California.

A huge thank you to @laurenlaverne and the team at 6Music Breakfast for having me on the other week to do the ‘6Musings’ slot about the only dinner party chat I really have, @thelastbohemianspod! The Johanna Went episode is coming this week and she’s a total (cult) legend.

In today’s paper! Pretty surreal to be on a Zoom this week with Eno, Byrne and Dunya Younes, the Lebanese singer they sampled 41 years ago…

This week, we’ve got a brilliant new @thelastbohospod for you! Lynn Castle was the first ‘lady barber’ of LA, cutting the hair of Jim Morrison, Neil Young and Sonny Bono in the 1960s. She once dated Phil Spector, had a ‘friendship’ with Elvis and made some gorgeous lost pop music with psychedelic cowboy Lee Hazlewood. Boy, has she got some stories. In this episode, recorded in her trinket-filled bungalow in Glendale, north LA, she talks about everything from the hippie dream and taking ayahuasca, to her many almost-famous moments that, as a single mother trying to make ends meet, meant she never quite ‘made it’. But she never compromised her integrity. Hear how Nancy Sinatra stole her style, her musical tribute to a night with Stephen Stills, and why she kept letters from her old flame, Phil Spector, in this beautifully produced episode by @hollyloufish, with photos by @roxanne_roll. 🎙 A quick one: we remain an independent, all-women team dedicated to bringing you high quality listening experiences (with some help from the ace people at @audiotechnica_eu). Each episode is meticulously crafted and takes countless hours to make. If you’d also like to support us, pls head to our Patreon so we can buy the team a martini ;) 🕊

I’m so excited to bring you the next episode of The Last Bohemians LA! In a series first, we speak to three generations of an incredible American artistic dynasty up in the leafy hills of Laurel Canyon: Alison Saar, her daughter Maddy Leeser and her mother, 96-year-old Betye Saar, whose 1960s and 70s work was so revolutionary that Angela Davis credited it with launching the Black women’s movement. Join us around the garden table as the three women discuss motherhood and creativity, making art out of the everyday, being a mixed race family and the importance of exploring their African-American heritage, magic and mysticism, and the life and career advice that has been passed down from generation to generation. It was such a privilege to join them one afternoon. I really hope you love this one. 🎙This episode was produced by Sue Merlino @firefly6601 and @hollyloufish and presented by me, @katehutchinsonpow. 🎧The Last Bohemians: LA is supported by @audiotechnica_eu.

I’m back on the good ship @worldwide.fm today with the author of the book we’re are all* obsessed with (and one of this year’s most exciting debut novelists), @imightbesheenapatel. I’m A Fan is a story of fandom, obsessions, how scary the internet is, sexual desire, misogyny, female rage, exploitation and so much more and I love it and can’t wait to hear more about it. Join us live at 2pm, I’ll be broadcasting from the River Lea 🛶 Plus new/old music from Carlos Niño, Hagop Tchaparian, Gloria Scott, SAUL, Rug Dug, Two Shell and whatever else I can squeeze in. * me & @gillyp0ps especially

On my way to Womad today to host a Q&A with the excellent Nitin Sawheny. Can’t wait. I am driving there, for the first time in the UK since I passed my test, however, so please wish me luck 😬

The third episode of @thelastbohemianspod is with Linda Ramone, who lives in a totally dream house up in the Valley, with its themed Elvis, Disney and horror rooms. It has a beautiful tropical garden, and counterculture memorabilia and paintings of her late husband, Johnny Ramone, punk guitarist in the Ramones, everywhere. We knew Linda was our kinda bohemian when she made us Aperol Spritzes at 11am. She is the most New Yoik person I’ve ever spoken to, though she prefers life in LA, lounging around the pool and throwing events at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where Johnny is famously buried. Hope you enjoy this one - it’s got NYC punk from the woman’s pov, love triangles, legacies and Phil Spector (who haunts a lot of the series) 😘 Photos (the good ones): @roxanne_roll. Funnily enough it was Nancy Sinatra’s team who introduced us to Linda, and as you can see, Nancy has inspired Linda’s orange and pink living room, too.

I fucking love this write up. Thank you @konfektmagazine ❤️

Episode two of The Last Bohemians LA, supported by @audiotechnica_eu, is with An! Actual! Bond! Girl! Gloria Hendry made cinema history in 1973 when she became 007’s first black love interest. She also starred in some cult blaxploitation films of the 1970s - she flips it and calls this era the ‘Black Renaissance’ - and was a Playboy Bunny at the same time as training to be a legal secretary at the NAACP in the Civil Rights era before that. Her life could be a film. We loved Gloria. Her laugh is infectious and she’s an amazing storyteller. Hope you enjoy this one. Out to @hollyloufish who spent many hours sorting her rider, @roxanne_roll for the frankly incredible portraits and @georgierogers on editing duties. A huge thank you to @richeymack and Mr and Mrs Smith for sorting us with a posh hotel to stay in where we could record and do a swank job. My review of the DTLA Proper is up on their site now.