Adele Bertei is a musician and author. Her most recent book is No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene (2026). Adele played a lead role in Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames, and was lead singer of the first out lesbian band, the Bloods. Her books include Peter and the Wolves (2020), Why Labelle Matters (2022), Twist: Tales of a Queer Girlhood (2024) and Sinéad O'Connor's Universal Mother (2025).
Angela McRobbie is Prof. Emeritus at Goldsmiths, London and Fellow of the British Academy. Her most recent books are Ulrike Ottinger: Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination (2024) and Feminism, Young Women and Cultural Studies: The Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards (2024). Angela first met Adele in Birmingham in the feminist post-punk live music scenes.
Amelia Abraham is a journalist and author from London. Her books include Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture and her first edited photography book, Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualizing Queer Nightlife will be published in Spring 2026 by MACK Books.
Emily Pope is a London-based artist working across film, sound, printmaking and writing. Her practice often takes the form of ongoing series, including The Sitcom Show (2016–), a “failed sitcom” documenting life under UK austerity. Drawing on experimental broadcast media, humour and satire, her work explores queer intersectional feminism, political rhetoric and class politics. Recent exhibitions include Ginny on Frederick; Quench Gallery; Karst; SARA’s; and Southwark Park Galleries. Her writing has appeared recently in Buffalo Zine, Elephant Magazine, Bittersweet Review, Sticky Fingers Publishing. She was an awardee of the LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award (2023–2025).
Montez Press Radio is an experimental broadcasting and performance platform founded in 2018 with the goal of fostering greater experimentation and conversation between artists, writers, and thinkers through the medium of radio. This platform invites different corners of the art world to interact with each other in person and on air—a place where media finally meets flesh. We’re drawn to art that exists in the unexpected, the authenticity of sharing without a script, the sounds of ideas in the making, conversation that forgets there’s an audience.