Focus: RE:VULVA

Photo By Ellen Dixon

Who are you and where are you from?
We are RE:VULVA, based in Newcastle but from Scotland and the North of England.

What is it you do?
Sparkly synth pop inspired feminist folk music

How long have you been doing it?
We’ve been playing together for about a year and a half now, but individually we’re all musicians on the UK folk scene and have been for quite a number of years.

What inspires you?
The Spice Girls

Tell us about your music.
We noticed that at folk festivals, the late night slots are often dominated by very similar, all-male acts, and that innovation isn’t often demanded of them in the same way it is of women. All female line-ups can often feel like we need to come up with a real point of difference or a gimmick to get noticed. It’s ridiculous because the number of non-male musicians who are absolutely killing it is insane. We listened to a lot of the bands getting these late night, and higher paying gigs and decided to poke fun at the system by modeling our sound on theirs. Fast mandolin and fiddle tunes cocooned in sparkly synth and dance beats, with the occasional classic millennial pop reference, and voila! you have RE:VULVA!

Our mission is also about visibility. We want to show young, female, non-binary, and queer folk that there’s a space for them on big festival stages.

What have you got coming up in the future?
Our first ever single Girls and Their Toys will be out on March 14th with a shiny new music video to boot!
We’ll be playing at Cobalt Studios on March 8th, followed by English Folk Expo on the 22nd. In June we’ll be in London at Cecil Sharp House for Queer Folk, and finally, headlining Friday night of Cumberlandia festival in July.

Where can people find out more about you?
Instagram: @re.vulvaband
Website: www.revulva.org
Bluesky: @revulvauk.bsky.social 
youtube: @re.vulvaband