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Isle of Wight Festival promoter John Giddings apologises for “lady rock band” comments

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Isle Of Wight Festival promoter John Giddings has apologised after asking for suggestions of “lady rock bands” to add to the festival’s line-up.After tweeting the request, the festival organiser was criticised on social media for his choice of wording.“Please reassess your wording/thought process.

I appreciate you are (hopefully) trying to offer women musicians opportunities, but this should be standard, not a token gesture,” Twitter user @okaychloegreen wrote. “Also, ‘lady rock’ is really demeaning.”Giddings quickly apologised for his “wrong choice of words” and clarified that he wasn’t “using the term ‘lady rock’”. “I agree, it would be demeaning,” he said.

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