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DJ set in Coventry for IWD – 8 March

I’m excited to announce that I will be headlining Boudica Festival‘s party for International Women’s Day on Friday 8th March!

The event will take place from 8pm to late at at The Tin in Coventry.

Here’s the blurb from Boudica:

Poster for the Grrrls Night Out event at the Tin Music and Arts, Coventry, on Friday 8th March, 8pm to late. The poster features a disco ball with waving arms, feet, and an open mouth. It states that the event will feature DJs spinning pop, rock, riot grrrl and more, plus visuals and crafts.

Killer Queen returns to the Tin for one night only! Killer Queen aka Ruth Pearce is a Glasgow-based trans feminist DJ, known for genre-bending rock and pop sets that bring together classic tunes and contemporary hits. Ruth has been previously spotted spinning the decks at queer clubs, protest after-parties, and activist conferences across the country, including Reclaim the Night, Women’s Aid, Queer Fest Leeds, Birmingham pride, and Nine Worlds Geekfest. In Coventry she founded and performed at the Killer Queen queer rock club from 2009-2013, and was part of the Revolt! collective which ran riot grrrl nights at the Tin from 2012-2017. These days, Ruth can usually be found found shouting in the rock trio Dispute Settlement Mechanism, playing bass in the noise pop band wormboys, and/or moonlighing as a professional scholar in the field of transgender studies.

This will be my first DJ set in several years(!) However, I’ve been constantly listening to new music, so am very excited to be once again getting behind the decks – especially in my old stomping ground of Coventry.

You can buy your tickets here.

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wormboys tour – October 2023

We’re hitting the road again in late October, accompanied on all dates by the lovely Alexx Munro! You can get your advance tickets here:

20 October – Legends, Edinburgh
(with Fistymuffs)

21 October – Ushi’s, Glasgow
(support TBC)

22 October – Little Buildings, Newcastle
(with Fashion Tips)

29 October – secret location, Leeds
(with R.AGGS)

wormboys tour poster, featuring tour dates on a multicoloured background, with an inverted silhouette of a beetle plus a friendly worm or snake-like creature with two faces.
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New wormboys single: “mostly still”

We put out a wormboys single last week! “mostly still” has been released in digital form by Come Play With Me Records. It’s the first new song we worked on together after I joined the band in 2019, so I’m very excited we’re sharing this recording with the world.

Cover image for the wormboys single "mostly still". The cover image features two porcelain fish, who both wear shocked expressions.

Here are some nice things people have said:

“A light-hearted, endearing grunge-pop tune … the Leeds four piece deliver their self described ‘queer moody creepy noise-pop’ with joyful flair on this new offering” – Get In Her Ears

“The track finds Wormboys at perhaps their most melodic, recalling the likes of Lomelda or Boy Scouts as wiry guitars meet crashing drums and clipped, lilting vocals. Lyrically, this song isn’t one of sweeping melodramas, more the tiny moments that make our skin crawl or our hearts leap, as they sing “you dance next to me, and I’ll stand mostly still”, before being engulfed in a swell of guitars. Noisy and sweet, dreamy and driving, Wormboys are a contradiction in all the best ways and a band more than ready to make their mark.” – For The Rabbits

You can listen to the song for free on our Bandcamp page, and it’s also available on streaming platforms such as Spotify.