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45 Festivals Have Committed to Gender-Balanced Lineups

January and February mark festival lineup season, which in turn means that you may well have seen your music writers of choice grumbling online once again about the lack of female representation on the bills released so far (or heard your boyfriend grumbling about Reading and Leeds). And while 2018 has shown some improvement (read, for example, my thoughts on the Primavera Sound and Field Day lineups), at this point, flagging up gender disparity in music festivals feels like a yearly ritual—a shit, boring one, like doing your taxes. A new initiative hopes to put a stop to that.

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