Really Interesting Women - the podcast


Episode 118

Tana Douglas

Tana Douglas is acknowledged throughout the global music industry as a pioneer.

She was the first female 'roadie' (road crew for rock bands). The first woman in a testosterone fuelled world. You talk about challenges. There's one.

It was a rocky start. She ran away from an abusive childhood and found herself in the early 70’s in Nimbin (the hippie capital of Australia) where a chance meeting with... a tightrope walker of all things, changed her life.

For example, soon after that, she walked into a downtrodden home in Melbourne to meet with a band who needed a roadie. She was 16 and stood in the living room looking at a bedraggled group of young men who weren't that much older than her. They hadn't even put out an album yet. But there was something about them. Tana reckons there was an energy that they seemed to just exude. It was AC/DC. She lived with them for over a year while they put their first album together.

That then started a chain of events that led to her touring the world and working with bands such as Status Quo, The Who, Ozzy Ozborne, Iggy Pop, Elton John, INXS, Lenny Kravitz, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers...the list is endless.

...and so are the fabulous stories.  Imagine throwing down shots with Bon Scott backstage at Wembley before he went out in front of 80,000 people. She did that!

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The book is
Loud: A life in rock’n’roll by the world’s first female roadie 

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