Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Macmanus has claimed that there’s a “tidal wave” of sexual abuse instances all through the music business which have but to come back to gentle.

The broadcaster described the music enterprise as “a boys’ membership” which was “sort of rigged towards ladies” when talking to a Home of Commons committee, and claimed that many ladies have but to come back ahead with their tales out of concern for his or her careers.

“There must be some kind of a shift in ladies feeling like they’re in a position to communicate out with out their careers being compromised, [but] I don’t understand how that may occur,” the DJ mentioned when talking to the Girls and Equalities Committee (by way of BBC Information).

“I really feel like there are a number of revelations that haven’t been uncovered… It’s infuriating, the quantity of girls who’ve tales of sexual assault that simply sort of buried them and carried them. It’s simply unbelievable.”

She continued: “So I do assume if one thing have been to occur, like if one particular person was to talk that had sufficient profile the place it acquired media consideration, I believe there may very well be a sort of tidal wave of it. Undoubtedly.”

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When addressing the MPs, Macmanus – who goes by the title Annie Mac – confirmed that whereas she has not skilled or witnessed any sexual misconduct firsthand, she thinks her 19 years working with the BBC supplied her with a “protect of safety” to speak about such points.

“There are widespread threads that run by every thing I’ve heard,” she mentioned, recalling how she has spoken to a number of brokers, managers, producers, photographers, artists and fellow DJs about their experiences.

“That’s that ladies, particularly younger ladies within the music business, are constantly underestimated and undermined, and freelance ladies are constantly put in conditions the place they’re unsafe.”

She added: “The music business is a boys’ membership. All people is aware of everybody within the prime ranges. All of the folks on the very prime ranges have the cash. In addition they have the facility. The system is sort of rigged towards ladies.”

Elsewhere on the tackle on the Home of Commons, former X Issue star Rebecca Ferguson additionally shared proof with these conducting an inquiry into misogyny within the music enterprise.

Right here, she defined that misogynistic attitudes have been simply “the tip of the iceberg of the issues which are occurring behind the scenes”, and that “bullying and corruption” are repeatedly “allowed to occur” by these in senior positions.

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“There are many occasions if you’re positioned in conditions the place you’re being compromised and the place persons are abusing their degree of energy,” she defined.

“However in addition to that, the factor that worries me probably the most is the rapes which are going unreported. That’s what considerations me probably the most – the truth that ladies really feel like they will’t communicate up.

“One girl contacted me and mentioned, ‘I’ve wished to do that [speak out] my total life. If I communicate up towards him, he’s so highly effective, I’ll by no means work on this business ever once more’.”

Earlier this yr, former X Issue contestant Lucy Spraggan got here ahead to disclose that she dropped out of the ITV collection after being sexually assaulted.

Aged 20 on the time, the singer recalled that she was raped by a resort porter whereas competing on the expertise present in 2012, and detailed the assault in her memoir Course of: Discovering My Method By means of.