She’s someone who was so inspired by the Josie And The Pussycats movie that she started her own internationally famous teenage rock band. We speak to Operator Please founder, frontwoman and guitarist Amandah Wilkinson about teen fame, the pressures of the music industry, and her new act Bossy Love.

Josie and the Podcats is hosted, researched and written by best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist Maria Lewis. She can be found on Twitter @MovieMazz https://twitter.com/moviemazz and marialewis.com.au The show is produced by film critic and podcast/producer behind One Heat Minute and All The Presidents Minutes Blake Howard. He can be found on Twitter @OneBlakeMinute https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute and graffitiwithpunctuation.com

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Amandah Wilkinson of Bossy Love and Edwin Organ are responsible for our jerkin theme song, with Bossy Love’s new album Me + U out now: https://www.bossylove.com and Edwin online at edwinorgan.com