Sarah Burke

Labels, even though lots of the publicists were women, and in Canada at the time, a lot of the labels were run by women too, but we didn't get the rock band's funnel to us.

And I looked around and I went, same publicist, same journalist, same label.

And I went, oh.

That's why.

We're in the same pool.

Then I thought about her emails to me and I went, she may not have understood in my mind what the business was like.

But what she was getting at was maybe the business shouldn't be like this.

And I was in my late twenties, mid twenties.

And then I went, oh, I get it now.

So I was, so when I was doing that apple show a few years ago, we would have episodes.

We wouldn't tell anybody.

We wouldn't promote it.

Every single song we played every single song, a woman was the singer, every three hour show, two hour show, every single song.

But I wouldn't have got there.

If I hadn't got that criticism in the early days and I misunderstood the criticism, I was being defensive, all that stuff.

But when I know better, I did better.

Listen, I play rock music, so it's predominantly male anyway.

But like now what I do is I find artists who have less than a hundred plays and I play them.

I'm going out of my way because I've always hated the industry anyway, even though I'm a part of it and I've hated their music taste for the most part.

And I have pushed myself, but I might not have had that spark that I needed