The lack of women headliners was reflected not just in traditional rock festivals, but at more pop focussed events such as V and Wireless. As Prince once put it, there's joy in repetition.

There’s a burgeoning feminist music scene in Scotland and an Edinburgh rock school created to cater for women only is at ... the school began at a music festival, where she and Fiona ran pilot ...

And the women who had defined rock in the prior decade suddenly seemed ... (like a memory of Sparks tossing a tampon into a festival crowd), the format of “Pretend We’re Dead” also ensures ...