A collection of images of Jane Boston performing with Siren as a band.
1. This shows the photo of Jane Boston that was used on the rear of the vinyl album, ‘Siren Plays’.
2. This shows a photo of Jane Boston playing in Siren band.
This shows Siren loading up the van after a performance of ‘Mama’s Gone a-Hunting’, still wearing their costumes. Often, after a performance, the get-out had to be very fast, with no time to change. This was an outdoors, daytime performance.
Digital Reproduction of the centre pages and back page of the programme for the Siren Play 'From the Divine'.
1. This shows the people involved in the production, as well as a breakdown of scenes in Act 1 and Act 2 of the play.
The programme acknowledges funding (for the first time) for Siren from South East Arts Association and Eastern Arts Association.
2. This shows an advert from the GLC Women’s Committee welcoming Siren to London with its anti-war play, ‘From the Divine’. It has an image of the GLC Peace Statue from the South Bank in London.
This shows the postcard (front and back) used to promote Siren’s show ‘Les Les’. The postcard was used for the opening of the show at The Pavilion Theatre, Brighton. It shows Jude Winter and Jane Boston. They were the only Siren members who performed in the show. Deb Trethewey was still the technician at this time.
The review is positive about Siren’s first album “Siren Plays’, praising their "articulate, strong and witty political portrayal of women's issues in an exclusively musical context."
The review ends with a promotion of the gig Siren was playing as a band with Brighton band, Rhythm Tendency at The Pavilion Theatre.
This shows Tash Fairbanks, Jude Winter, Jane Boston and Deb Trethewey about to have breakfast in a friend’s house after performing in London the previous night.
CW: This digital reproduction contains sexist and homophobic language.
This shows a poster advertising Siren band playing at the Emporium in Leicester that has been defaced. The poster had been defaced with what was described in a letter attached to the poster as anti-feminist and anti-gay comments.
This shows Jude Winter sitting with some of the props on the side of the road, waiting for the van to be fetched to load up the gear after a Chic to Chic performance.
This shows Deb Trethewey, Tash Fairbanks, Jane Boston, Hilary Ramsden and Jude Winter with a friend, Susy Taylor in foreground of photo.
Throughout Siren’s tours, they stayed at friend’s homes (or their parents) as we were not funded and could not afford B&Bs. This often meant sleeping in our sleeping bags on the floor.