Vicky Aspinall
Victoria Marion "Vicky" Aspinall[1] is a British musician. She was the violinist in the English post-punk band the Raincoats from 1978 to 1984. In 1992, she and Dave Morgan founded the independent dance label Fresh Records (not the post-punk label of the same name) initially for releases of their own Lovestation project.[2]
Biography
[edit]Aspinall is a classically-trained violinist, having graduated from the Royal College of Music, London.[3]
She was a member of Jam Today, a part of the Women's Music Movement that developed in the late 1970s, playing a hybrid of jazz and rock similar in approach to groups like Henry Cow.[4]
She joined the Raincoats after she noticed an advertisement which read "female musician wanted - strength not style" in radical bookshop Compendium in Camden Town.[5] She has been credited, by Gina Birch of the Raincoats, with making the band more aware of feminist ideas.[6] Aspinall and Birch later formed the band Dorothy which was subsequently signed by Geoff Travis to Chrysalis Records.
References
[edit]- ↑ "FAIRYTALE IN THE SUPERMARKET". ASCAP. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ↑ Sexton, Paul (7 August 1999). "U.K.'s Fresh Records Spins Out New Sounds". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
- ↑ "She Plays Her Bass Loud: Post-Punk Legend Gina Birch on Her Debut Solo Album, The Raincoats, and Feminism". KEXP. Retrieved 30 July 2025.
- ↑ "Blog Archive » Jam Today – Stroppy Cow Records 1981". Kill Your Pet Puppy. 12 January 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ↑ Pelly, Jenn (5 October 2017). The Raincoats' the Raincoats. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781501302428.
- ↑ The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era by Helen Reddington. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2007. p.142, ISBN 978-0754657736
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