Georgia Fields

Georgia Fields, musician and builder of Mother Lode

In addition to working as a self-managed artist for over a decade and raising two children, in recent times musician & songwriter Georgia Fields has launched a new online community called Mother Lode – a space to support and connect working mums in the Australian music industry, and a way to work collectively to encourage structural changes that will make the industry more accessible for mothers. She is absolutely speaking, and playing, our language!


Georgia’s professional life as an independent musician, songwriter, and arranger based in Melbourne, Australia positions her perfectly to connect communities of like minded and diverse people. In this chat we ask her about her own career, but also her aspirations for improving and expanding the industry. You can find Mother Lode on Instagram @findthemotherlode, and https://www.findthemotherlode.com/read

We’re now spoken to Georgia twice on MMO – both chats are below. In the second chat we were lucky enough to also feature some new music, with Georgia’s permission, pieces from her new songs “How A Girl Becomes A Puddle”, “In My Blood” and “Find Your Way Back”.

Link to chat one, 2021

Link to chat two, 2023

Ruth Barratt-Peacock Music Mothers and Others

Dr Ruth Barratt-Peacock is a musicologist and literary studies scholar. She has published widely in the areas of childhood studies, television, popular music and East Asian popular culture. She is the recipient of a Walter Benjamin grant for research on the social construction of childhood in metal music funded by the German Research Foundation in cooperation with the University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom. Her most recent papers appear in English: Journal of the English Society Oxford, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Australasian Journal of Popular Culture and Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures and Metal Music Studies. Among her many pieces is this one on Heavysaurus and heavy metal for kids See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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