Woolf (band)

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Woolf
OriginLondon, England
Genres Punk, Queercore, Hardcore
Years active2009 (2009)–present
Labels La Vida Es Un Mus
Members
  • Colette Rosa
  • Irene Revell
  • Sop
  • G
Website https://woolf.bandcamp.com/

Woolf is a British queercore band from London, England. They formed in 2009 at Lambeth Women's Project, and have released two LP records on Hackney punk label La Vida Es Un Mus. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Their first gig was at The Windmill, Brixton with fellow Londoners Trash Kit. [7]

Specially commissioned music written and recorded by the band was included in London based artist Oreet Ashery's audiovisual work Party for Freedom which premiered in October 2012 as part of that year's Liverpool Biennial festival, and was later shown in London, Copenhagen, and Helsinki. [7] [8] [9] The band performed live at the Helsinki screening held at the Photographic Gallery Hippolyte in October 2013. [10] The work was released on DVD by Performance Matters in 2014. [9]

In October 2014 they performed at London's Hayward Gallery as part of Pil and Galia Kollectiv's installation Concrete Gown for Immaterial Flows, part of the exhibition MIRRORCITY. [1] [11]

They played the Static Shock Records Weekender in both 2012 and 2017. Members of the band have also played in Corey Orbison, Roseanne Barrr, Frau, Score, Dregs, Dead Name, and Child’s Pose. [1] [12] [13] [14]

Discography

LPs

Cassettes

Split releases

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Woolf". Cafe Oto .
  2. ↑ "The Best of the 2010s, Part Two". Maximum Rocknroll .
  3. ↑ Gibbons, Layla (December 2011). "Columns - Layla Gibbons". Maximum Rocknroll. No. 347. Archived from the original on 11 September 2024. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  4. ↑ Graves, Alex (April 2019). "Child's Pose Interview". Maximum Rocknroll. No. 431. p. 79.
  5. ↑ Steiner, Melissa Rakshana (4 September 2014). "FESTIVAL REPORT: Wysing". The Quietus . Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  6. 1 2 Tariq, Syma (February 2011). "WOOLF". Diva . p. 23.
  7. 1 2 Beynon, Bryony (April 2014). "Woolf Interview". Maximum Rocknroll. No. 371.
  8. ↑ "Punk and classical music". Kone Foundation. 2 June 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2025.
  9. 1 2 Budzinski, Nathan (March 2014). "Unfinished revolutions: Oreet Ashery's Party For Freedom". The Wire . Retrieved 13 May 2025.
  10. ↑ "Hippolyte and Saari Residence Present: Trash Aesthetics and Irreverent Images Accompanied by Live Music". Photographic Gallery Hippolyte.
  11. ↑ "News". Pil and Galia Kollectiv. 29 November 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Gardner, Noel (3 September 2012). "Unsane In The Membrane: Noel Gardner's Straight Hedge Punk Column". The Quietus . Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  13. ↑ Gardner, Noel (14 May 2024). "Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For May". The Quietus . Retrieved 12 September 2024.
  14. ↑ Stefanini, Giacomo (5 July 2016). "Le dieci band che stanno facendo rivivere il punk inglese". Vice Italy . Retrieved 13 May 2025.
  15. ↑ Parks, Andrew (22 February 2021). "Dylan Baldi of Cloud Nothings Picks His Bandcamp Favorites". Bandcamp Daily . Retrieved 13 May 2025.
  16. ↑ True, Everett (24 October 2013). "Song of the day – 651: Woolf". Collapse Board . Retrieved 13 May 2025.
  17. ↑ "Woolf - The Right Way To Play - La Vida Es Un Mus Discos LP". The Wire . August 2012. p. 56.
  18. ↑ Foglia, Francesca (September 2012). "Reviews - Woolf - 'The Right Way To Play' LP". Maximum Rocknroll . Retrieved 18 May 2025.
  19. ↑ Scott, Jess (May 2011). "Reviews - TRASH KIT / WOOLF - split EP". Maximum Rocknroll . No. 336.
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