Sometime in the early 2000's, the women of Rockbitch decided to move to the USA.

They had stopped playing music in a state of bitter disappointment after a relentless and underhand campaign of sabotage and hostility to their live gigs as the band Rockbitch. They had truly thought that their politics would be understood, that the extremes they went to onstage were so unneccesary, particularly when coupled with such obvious musicianship and skills - that people would question, well, WHY do they do what they do? That they would listen to the lyrics, hear the message, view the video screens with footage relevant to each song shown at gigs, and, essentially, get it.

The public did get it. The press also got it - but fair reporting doesn't sell a newspaper, and the media, on the whole, chose the path of establishment outrage coupled with downright lies. Journalists who wrote accurate copy were told to change their articles.

And Rockbitch were indeed understood by the authorities as being dangerous anarchists, to the extent that illegal methods were used against them. Including numerous fake bomb scare at their events - venue owners being constantly threatened with the loss of their licences if they allowed the band to perform, despite Rockbitch never breaking any law whatsoever and always keeping shows to age 18 only. Riot police in full battle gear with shields and automatic weapons barricading the stage to prevent the band taking to it, even to play a completely 'clean' show. Phone tapping and surveillance and more - you wouldn't believe it and few today know or do.

Paranoid? Only if they are not actually watching you.

A couple of years after quitting Rockbitch, they realised the obvious - that they were musicians to the core and genuinely could not stop creating. The community response was to create a new band, call it MT-TV, (very tongue in cheek) and bugger off to the USA with a clear slate.

MT-TV, or Empty-TV, the spelling varied - were still very feminist and political, still with occult lyrics and potent messages, and with a stage show that was provoking rather than provocative. Three of the community members became the group within a group called "the Stereotypes': a white girl; Bunny, an Indian girl: Kali and a black girl: Erzulie. They were the backing vocalists and performance artists who expressed the bands lyrics and song subject matter.

The latter two kept the names they had used in Rockbitch - after the goddesses and culture they found inspirational. Bunny, as a blonde, expressed the iconographic bimbo stereotype - which was always considered a positive one by the commune women.

MT-TV travelled up and down the East coast from New York to Panama City, and this was the album of that period. There were a couple of other mini albums, all of which were sold at gigs only, not through a record or distribution company, and a DVD called Shevolution. The image shown here is actually the cover for that DVD, as Babe particularly likes it! The two mini albums were called East/West, and North/South, and were expressing the cross country travels & experiences of the time. Included were a mini documentaries of the bands experiences in the USA, called' The American Dream.

All of the community's music, their videos, documentaries have always been shot and edited in house by the community themselves. The vast majority of their merchandise and album covers were created by Babe, as were all the websites for each band.

The community actually had owned land in the USA for many years and had intended to relocate the permanently. After about three years it was apparent to them that they were European to the core and simply not comfortable as pagans in such a deeply religious country, and returned, settling eventually in the UK.