Sophie White: My Primavera experience proved gender balance in festival line-ups is not just fair, but way, way more fun
I am not one of those people who long to return to their 20s, not least because my 20s were marred by substance-use issues resulting in a fairly no-craic nervous breakdown. However, after spending three days at Barcelona's Primavera festival where the festival headliners were three solo artists, all women, I can't help but feel a small bit wistful that I am not in my 20s right now in this seemingly golden era of balls-out pop lady legends, many of whom are also queer.
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I am not one of those people who long to return to their 20s, not least because my 20s were marred by substance-use issues resulting in a fairly no-craic nervous breakdown. However, after spending three days at Barcelona's Primavera festival where the festival headliners were three solo artists, all women, I can't help but feel a small bit wistful that I am not in my 20s right now in this seemingly golden era of balls-out pop lady legends, many of whom are also queer.
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