Louise Distras is an English singer, songwriter and musician from

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Early life

Louise Distras was born in

, a city in the North of England, in 1987. She taught herself to play the violin at an early age and later learned to play guitar by "bunking off school and smoking cigarettes" and listening to

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's debut album ''

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''. Distras ran away from home in her teens. In a 2019 interview with '' The Chronicle'' she said "being able to escape into songwriting and guitar-playing is what got me through."

Career

2012–2015: Early career and ''Dreams from the Factory Floor''

Distras started performing live in 2012 holding her first shows in pubs and open mic nights. At one of her early gigs she met Anne Scargill (a prominent figure of the

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movement that supported miners and their families in the UK miners strike of 1984–1985) who sang "Women of the Working Class" to her. "She told me to write a song that's just for women, so that's what I did," said Louise on X (formerly Twitter). Distras uploaded her first single "The Hand You Hold" to YouTube on International Women's Day, picking up media attention from ''

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'', ''

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'', and

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. She was invited by

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to perform on the Leftfield Stage at

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and he tweeted "Maybe we'd have done better at

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if Louise Distras had been our entry?" In 2015, she released her debut full-length album ''Dreams from the Factory Floor'' and performed across America, Canada, Scandinavia and Europe, opening for The Damned,

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and

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. Music journalist John Robb called her "the most important protest singer we have" in a review on the

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website.

2016 – 2019: Rising profile and "Street Revolution" EP

In 2016 Distras premiered her new single "Aileen" via ''

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'', marking a change in musical direction. ''Kerrang!'' named Louise Distras a "Star of 2017" saying "Louise Distras is the most exciting voice in UK punk right now!" "Aileen" received radio support from

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(

), John Kennedy ( Radio X) and

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(

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). It also featured on the Hugs for Chelsea benefit album which premiered on

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. She embarked on a UK and European Tour with

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and performed on the main stage at Punk Rock Bowling Festival in Las Vegas. Distras headlined the Nick Alexander stage of

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's Lost Evenings Festival at

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in London, and performed at

for a second time under the invitation of Billy Bragg. In 2018 Distras announced she was working on her second album and premiered the music video "Land of Dope and Glory" by

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-nominated director Lewis Cater. "It's inspired by

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and looks like

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joined forces with

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to create a dystopian TV channel" said Louise in an interview with ''Loudersound''. In 2019 she released the "Street Revolution" EP and received more praise from ''Kerrang!'' who said, "Louise Distras has the kind of voice that could charm the paint from a car". The title track "Street Revolution" was made John Kennedy's 'X-posure Hot One' on Radio X and named as one of DJ

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's top tracks of 2019 who described "Street Revolution" "as a song for our times. It leaps out of the radio". She also performed in Germany, supporting

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and appeared as a special guest on the new

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album ''38 Minutes''.

2020–2022: Covid 19 and creative pause

In a post on social media, Distras stated her new album release had been pushed back due to the

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pandemic's impact on the music industry and being subjected to online abuse. On 4 November 2022, Distras released a new single "Black Skies", with a spoken-word introduction from

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. In an interview with Backseat Mafia, Distras revealed she had to crowdfund her upcoming new album as she had never been paid for the sales of her debut album ''Dreams from the Factory Floor''.

2023: New album ''Beauty After Bruises''

On 27 January Distras released "Girl in the Mirror" and announced her second album ''Beauty After Bruises'' would be out on 28 April via Ministry Of Love Records, saying "I don't want to make music that's a space for the best, glossy version of myself so ''Beauty After Bruises'' is about the ugly truth. This album is messy just like me and it's about honouring the parts of myself that I looked away from." ''Beauty After Bruises'' was recorded at 25th Street Studios in Oakland, California with American Grammy nominated producer Ross Peterson (

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) and mixed by the English music producer

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(best known for his work with

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and Blur). Guest musicians include

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(

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) on keys, and

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drummer Gunnar Olsen on drums. ''Louderthanwar'' said "Punk is about attitude and Louise has enough for the whole of Yorkshire. Her voice was always emotional but now it's more introspective, more mature and distinctive. With less shouting, she has become a voice to be heard." ''Clash'' magazine said "Wakefield's underground heroine Louise Distras is at her best on new album ''Beauty After Bruises''" and "''Beauty After Bruises'' is a hugely endearing return from a massive talent." A&R Factory said, "''Beauty After Bruises'' is a triumph of candour-instilled innovation". In an interview with Vocal Media, Distras criticised Ireland's new hate speech laws, saying "We should all be able to speak without being policed and told what we can and can't say about our own lives." Alongside five other women, Distras featured in a ''

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'' article about the experiences of ordinary women being ostracised from their jobs for questioning gender ideology. In an interview with writer

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for

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about misogyny in the music industry, Distras said that "the music industry used to be about freedom of expression and freedom of speech", and there was "an urgent need to build a new one with a proper counterculture, where women have actually got a proper say".

Artistry and style

Distras's biggest influences include

: she cites their 1989 debut album ''Bleach'' as her favourite album. Some of her earlier influences include

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and

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. She has incorporated elements of the classic 1977 punk rock aesthetic into her work, notably in the music videos "The Hand You Hold" and "Shades of Hate". She is also known for retaining her thick Yorkshire accent during interviews and makes no attempt to sing in an American accent. Onstage she sometimes wears

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trainers,

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shirts and punk inspired jewellery, such as earrings designed by

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Activism

Distras describes herself as "a soft working class feminist rooted in a Northern working class upbringing" and has written for fanzines citing Ariel Levy's ''

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'' as one of her early influences. In 2012 she supported the Russian feminist band

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in an interview with ''

''. In 2013 she appeared on the

documentary "Make Some Noise" and

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's BBC Radio 5 show ''Pienaar's Politics'' to discuss the role of protest songs in modern music. In 2015 Distras auctioned vinyl test pressings of ''Dreams from the Factory Floor'' on

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and donated the funds to California non-profit human rights organisation Justice Now. Justice Now co-ordinated an art project based around ''Dreams from the Factory Floor'' lyrics, where people in the

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(the world's biggest women's prison) illustrated copies of her songs "The Hand You Hold" and "Love Me The Way I Am". The finished art pieces were displayed at various events throughout the year. Later that year she performed alongside Mick Jones (

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) and

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(

) at London's Coronet Theatre to raise funds for the London Fire Brigade in

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's memory, and appeared live on Channel 4 news to discuss the closure of

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. In 2019 Distras became an ambassador for Musicians Against Homelessness and joined Jon Sparkes (Chief Executive of

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and

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at the

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to campaign against homelessness. Distras has criticised perceived censorship of working-class artists, describing "

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" as "just mind games for the middle classes".

Discography

Albums

* ''Dreams from the Factory Floor'', Street Revolution Records, CD/DD, 2013, Pirates Press Records, LP, 2015 * ''Beauty After Bruises'', DD, CD, LP, Ministry Of Love Records Department 2023

Singles/EPs

* "The Hand You Hold", DD 2012 * "Shades of Hate", DD 2012 * "Stand Strong Together", DD 2013 * "Love Me the Way I Am"/"Bullets", 7", DD 2014 * "Bullets", DD 2015 * "Aileen", CD, DD 2016 * "Outside of You", DD 2017 * "Land of Dope and Glory", DD 2018 * "Street Revolution" EP, CD, DD 2019 * "Black Skies", DD, Ministry Of Love Records Department 2022 * "Girl in the Mirror", DD, Ministry Of Love Records Department 2023 * "Factory Girl", DD, Ministry Of Love Records Department 2023 * "Truth in Your Lies", DD, Ministry Of Love Records Department 2023 * "Love & Money", DD, Ministry Of Love Records Department 2023

Compilation appearances

* "Aileen" on Hugs for Chelsea, DD, 2016

Collaborations

* ''Paradise'' by The King Blues, 38 Minutes CD, DD, 2019 * ''Boomer and the Severed Goats Head'' by The King Blues, 38 Minutes CD, DD, 2019 * ''Black Skies'' by Louise Distras featuring Steve Ignorant, DD, 2022

References

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