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Real Girl is the moniker of Midwest-born and raised DJ and multi-media artist Josie Simon.
Real Girl started DJ'ing at college in Ohio when the song-selectors that spun at the parties on campus all started to graduate, leaving a void that she felt compelled to fill. While house basements were Real Girl's preferred venue at the time, her DJ sets have been seen at above-ground college venues such as the Oberlin ‘Sco for events such as Queer Beers, at Oberlin music festival Pretty Fest (started by Sarah Snider ‘17) in 2018 and 2019, opening for Oberlin’s Solarity event in May of 2019, and as the mix-master for Oberlin’s slam poetry group OSLAM’s Grand Slam in Spring 2019. Her selections could also be heard for a semester in 2019 on 91.5 FM WOBC, Oberlin’s own college and community radio station, for her early Friday morning radio show TRANSMISSION. In the brief months between when she graduated and when the pandemic hit, her selections could be heard at DJ Lemz's DC party Sleaze, Slamdunkapher's Minneapolis party Purr, and the Janelovesu! single release party at New York's H0l0 Bar. She now runs a radio show on Verge.fm called Beat Conduit where you can hear a new Real Girl mix every first Friday of the month.
Real Girl started DJ'ing at college in Ohio when the song-selectors that spun at the parties on campus all started to graduate, leaving a void that she felt compelled to fill. While house basements were Real Girl's preferred venue at the time, her DJ sets have been seen at above-ground college venues such as the Oberlin ‘Sco for events such as Queer Beers, at Oberlin music festival Pretty Fest (started by Sarah Snider ‘17) in 2018 and 2019, opening for Oberlin’s Solarity event in May of 2019, and as the mix-master for Oberlin’s slam poetry group OSLAM’s Grand Slam in Spring 2019. Her selections could also be heard for a semester in 2019 on 91.5 FM WOBC, Oberlin’s own college and community radio station, for her early Friday morning radio show TRANSMISSION. In the brief months between when she graduated and when the pandemic hit, her selections could be heard at DJ Lemz's DC party Sleaze, Slamdunkapher's Minneapolis party Purr, and the Janelovesu! single release party at New York's H0l0 Bar. She now runs a radio show on Verge.fm called Beat Conduit where you can hear a new Real Girl mix every first Friday of the month.
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