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Sinéad Gleeson and Kim Gordon in conversation: ‘The best music books are about grief, politics, family, loss’

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The Irish author and the former Sonic Youth bassist have co-edited an eclectic collection of women’s writing about music that moves past ‘dude stories’

Award-winning Irish writer Sinéad Gleeson was 16 when she first caught Kim Gordon’s eye in a snaking queue outside a sweaty dive called McGonagles in Dublin. Gordon, playing that night with her band Sonic Youth, casually strolled out of the venue to grab something from the tour bus: “And there was this huge, collective gasp from the crowd,” Gleeson recalls.

“She looked at me and I looked at her – [we] properly noticed each other,” she says. “Probably partly because the queue was 90% guys. She was such a figurehead to me and to so many female musicians who came after her.”

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