Vicky Aspinall
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Victoria "Vicky" Aspinall (born c. 1956, England)[citation needed] was the violinist in the English post punk band The Raincoats from 1978 to 1984, and a founder in 1992 of Fresh Records, a UK independent record label.
Aspinall was a member of Jam Today, a part of the 'Women's Music Movement' which developed in the late 1970s, playing a hybrid of jazz and rock similar in approach to groups like Henry Cow.[1] She has been credited, by Gina Birch of The Raincoats, with making The Raincoats more aware of feminist ideas.[2]
She was recruited to The Raincoats after she noticed an advertisement which read "female musician wanted: no style but strength" in a radical bookshop in Camden Town.[3]
She is a classically trained violinist, having graduated from the Royal College of Music, London, in the late 1970s.
References
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- ↑ The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era by Helen Reddington. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2007. p.142, ISBN 978-0754657736
- ↑ Time Out, April 2005
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