Motherhood took the decks away. Midlife gave them back.
This week on We're the Motherfogging DJs, Shanaz & Emma are joined live at Wilderness Festival at The Clubhouse by three powerhouse members of Eves’ Drop Collective — the 13-strong all-female DJ, vocalist and selector crew who've become one of the most talked-about names in UK dance music and sound system culture.
Sweet P - takes us back to the Hacienda-era Manchester club scene of the early '90s, running a room at the legendary Home nightclub — before walking away from DJing entirely for 15 years to raise her kids. Sarah Sweeney shares her journey from bedroom decks in Southport, through the Southport Weekender and Chibuki Shake Shake, to residencies at Fabric and the Heavenly Social. And Duchy takes us through her roots as a teenage R&B and reggae vocalist, her time with United Vibrations and Underwolves, and how motherhood pulled the phone quiet for years — until it didn't.
Together they open up about:
- What it actually feels like to walk back into a booth after a decade-plus away — and relearning the craft on digital decks after a lifetime on vinyl
- The unfiltered truth about sexism, gatekeeping and the \"get a sponsorship deal, sweetheart\" advice women DJs were handed in the '90s and early 2000s
- Why We Out Here festival became the birthplace of Eves’ Drop Collective, and the one place they can bring all 13 members together
- Navigating menopause, HRT, ADHD and perimenopause while holding down five-hour sets, day jobs, ageing parents and grown-up kids — and the supplement stack keeping them upright
- The insta-follower generation of DJs versus decades of dues-paying — and why there's room for both
- Music as therapy, sisterhood as medicine, and why a dance floor can hold thirty years of grief and joy at once
Honest, hilarious and completely unfiltered — this is a love letter to every woman who stepped back from the thing she loved to raise a family, and found her way back to the decks anyway.