Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands will hit UK cinemas from 18th October.
Popstars, post-punks and pioneers: the multi award-winning new
documentary platforming Scotland’s defiant trailblazing lady bands.
Scottish movie distributor, Cosmic Cat, are delighted to announce a UK cinema launch for Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands from 18th October. This feature-length documentary platforms the trailblazing popstars, post-punks and pioneers who challenged a male-dominated trade, acknowledging their rightful place in music historical past and analyzing the enduring obstacles confronted by girls making music.
Written and narrated by Carla J. Easton (the award-nominated solo artist and member of TeenCanteen) and co-directed by prolific music promo director Blair Young (collaborator with Belle & Sebastian, Biffy Clyro, Teenage Fanclub and plenty of extra), Since Yesterday finds the wealthy historical past of Scottish lady bands from the Sixties onwards.
Blending private anecdotes from a bunch of bands together with Jeanette Gallacher from The McKinleys (the primary Scottish lady band to interrupt into the charts in 1964 and the primary lady band to ever play Wembley Arena), The Ettes, Strawberry Switchblade, The Hedrons, Sophisticated Boom Boom, Sunset Gun, His Latest Flame, The Twinsets, Lung Leg and Hello Skinny with a scrapbook-style audio-visual aesthetic, the movie takes us on a decade-by-decade journey, crafting the final word visible mixtape.
In Since Yesterday, Easton tells a strong world story by an area lens, asking how we are able to encourage younger girls to make music, if those that accomplish that are constantly erased from our cultural historical past?
Following its instant-sell-out World Premiere because the Closing Gala for Edinburgh International Film Festival, Since Yesterday can be launched in cinemas from 18th October. 
The cinema tour will kick off with one other on the spot sell-out, a really particular screening at Glasgow Film Theatre with ticket holders getting access to a dwell after-screening gig at Mono the place legendary 80s Glasgow lady band Sophisticated Boom Boom (Libby McArthur, Tricia Reid, Irene Brown, Jacqueline Bradley and Laura Mazzolini) will reform for one evening solely.
Also on the invoice can be Scottish feminine and non-binary songwriting collective Hen Hoose performing songs from the movie joined on stage by Louise Rutkowski (Sunset Gun/ This Mortal Coil) and Jeanette Gallagher (The McKinleys). There will even be particular screenings throughout Scotland with dwell Q&As with Carla and Blair plus company.
Carla stated: “Since I first suggested to Blair the idea of a documentary about the history of women who had formed bands in Scotland way back in 2016, we’ve been excited about letting an audience hear all the great music we knew about already, and then all the music we subsequently discovered. But more than that, it became about letting people hear the experiences of the women who made the music tell their stories, something they had never really gotten the opportunity to do before.”
Blair stated: “I’m excited for people to hear this music and meet these amazing characters, both in the film and through the live events happening in conjunction with the screenings and beyond and I hope it can go some way to help change things for the bands of the future.”
Ged Fitzsimmons from Cosmic Cat stated: “We are thrilled to be releasing this sensational feature in cinemas across Scotland and the UK in October. The film is a celebration of the best female bands Scotland produced in the last few decades and we can’t think of a better way to kick off the release than bringing cinema and live music together for what will be a memorable night in Glasgow.”
Tickets and dates for the UK cinema launch at sinceyesterdayfilm.com
Since Yesterday: The Untold History of Scotland’s Girl Bands is produced by Forest of Black and financed by Kickstarter Crowdfunder, Screen Scotland and BBC Scotland.
