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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

'Other voices helped me speak': How these Hunter women survived a Newcastle music scene predator

The women said they entered the music scene as children looking for 'innocent adoration' and there was no thought of sex until they were forced. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers

THE MEME doing the rounds on MySpace read: 'On a scale of one to Jimmy Beloved how into 13-year-olds are you?'

It was the mid-2000s, a time when social media was in its infancy, teenagers carried around Hiptop Slide phones and the genres of emo and screamo music were building an army of followers. And in Newcastle, the band Falling for Beloved had burst onto the scene, playing all-age gigs at The Palais, The Loft and other venues, including church halls and pubs.

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