Last modified on Thu 27 May 2021 12.11 EDT
The musician Alanna McArdle has formally withdrawn a social media post that made allegations of sexual and mental abuse against former Hookworms frontman Matthew Johnson in October 2018 on behalf of another woman, known as L.
He in turn has withdrawn his libel lawsuit against McArdle.
The litigation brought by Matt Johnson against Alanna and L/XYZ has been withdrawn. Alanna has now withdrawn the blog post from publication. Alanna bears Matthew no malice and hopes that he will do what is necessary to continue his music career. The blog post has been taken down. None of the parties will make any further comment on the case.
Joanna Gruesome’s Alanna McArdle as she reflects on
Weird Sister, talks about sexism in music, and why you should think twice before calling them twee.
It’s been 7 months since the release of your debut album
Weird Sister, looking back on the whole process, how was it for you, and what have you learned as a band?
Alanna McArdle: Doing the album was fun more than anything, I think for most of us it was the first time we had recorded anything in a real studio so it felt very ‘real’ in a sense. It’s weird to me that it’s been almost a year. After we recorded it, it took almost a year to come out so it’s actually been a pretty long process and I hadn’t really realised. When it did finally come out I think we were all a little shocked and confused by its reception. We didn’t expect anyone to really listen to it or buy it, so getting the attention we got was very strange. Doing something like CMJ- which was I guess directly linked to the album’s release- was an ey