Rockey Street Women

(from left to right: Tammy Isaacson, Su Insister aka Sue Charlton, Linda Dawson, Colleen Briel)

Before Mel, Emma, Victoria, Geri and Mel there was Sue, Linda, Muff and Yvonne. These weren’t girls with soccer star appendages and how-short-can-you-go mini-dresses, but real pop chicks with roar, that had music in their veins, songs to sing and eyeliner by the truckloads.

Boys and girls, these were The Insisters. All girl group in the heydey 80's. A Johannesburg based band with as much edge as the whole city put together. Ask Karl Kikillus, he knows. Yes, an appearance on PopShop was all in a days work for these gutsy girls.

Forming a girl band in the 80s in Johannesburg in South Africa with all that that era entails; Calvinism only just starting to lose its hold, idiot politicians still ready to wave their finger – now that’s girl power.

Words: Capricorn
Image: Keith Forsyth

The Insisters: Big in Japan?

Well maybe not big - but how cool is it that a Johannesburg girl band from the eighties is considered collectible by a Japanese dude in 2008? Very cool, I think ... cult cool, in fact.

Posted by MASANOBU on 9/27/2008, 10:39 am

I look for the band of South Africa.
Band name is INSISTERS.

If you have their single, please hand it over.

"If That's What You Want"
"Bluebeat"

Best wishes,
Masanobu Suga
From Japan

How did he hear of them? What does he like about them? I want to know more ... and is he going to buy those singles, or mug someone for them?