Why are Moby, Ed Sheeran and Laura Mvula putting on gigs in the living rooms of total strangers?
Billy Bragg, The National and Nothing But Thieves are all doing the same.
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Being gender neutral doesn’t help – just look at the MTV Video Music Awards
If sexism were obsolete it might. But it’s not.
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