Sonia Buckley Singer Songwriter

Woman with the Red Shoes.

Born on this day: feral and perverse raspy-voiced frontwoman of Australian post-punk band Divinyls, Christina Amphlett (née Christine Joy Amphlett, 25 October 1959 – 21 April 2013). This shot (by Donna Santisi) captures early wild child Amphlett at her most scary and exhilarating mid-performance at Club Lingerie in Los Angeles in 1983 (the same year Divinyls’ debut album Desperate was released). A Divinyls profile in CREEM magazine described how onstage Amphlett “would, at some points, spin across the floor in a pogo-ing danse macabre of the disenfranchised” and “smear lipstick across her body in a defiant symbol of anti-conformity” (whirling dervish / she-devil Amphlett sometimes looked bloodied, as if she’d just crawled wounded from the wreckage of a car crash). In her warts-and-all 2005 memoirs Pleasure and Pain: My Life, Amphlett recalled that when touring the US, audiences would find her performances so jarring and unpleasant they would frequently recoil in horror. You can see why Jim Farber of Rolling Stone would summarize her demonically possessed St Trinian’s girl persona as “all four Shangri-Las rolled into one – with a sn**ch of pre-exorcised Linda Blair tossed in.” Amphlett died far too young from a combination of Multiple Sclerosis and breast cancer.

We’re saddened to hear about the passing of Loretta Lynn, a true country music trailblazer whose honest lyrics and powerful voice inspired generations of female artists, including Tammy. Rest in peace, Loretta. 🤍 Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends.

.burnside graces our band room on March 6th.

Tickets are selling super fast via our website, this is a show you well and truly can’t miss.

Support from
Presented by our friends over at