Friday, 2 October 2020

Bikini Kill with Joan Jett, “Rebel Girl”



Featuring a guest appearance from Joan Jett, this live clip of the newly reformed Bikini Kill performing 'Rebel Girl' in 2019 is good quality, albeit filmed from slightly afar. It's still well worth watching though. Full length sets, either from the 1990s or from 2019, are hard to come by and the only one I could find was so wobbly it made me feel queasy watching it. For an inkling of the 1992 live experience, you can watch this clip of 'Rebel Girl' live at an outdoor rally in Washington DC here. A slightly less grainy version of the same footage appears in The Punk Singer. There's a lot of Bikini Kill footage up on YouTube, including some very atmospheric stuff from 2019, but it helps if you've a high tolerance for wobbly camerawork or people's heads getting in the way. If you're fine with that, go hunting.

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