Vicky Aspinall
Victoria "Vicky" Aspinall 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.[1]
Biography
Aspinall is a classically trained violinist, having graduated from the Royal College of Music, London, in the late 1970s.[citation needed]
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.[2]
She joined the Raincoats after she noticed an advertisement which read "female musician wanted -strength not style" in a radical bookshop Compendium in Camden Town.[3] She has been credited, by Gina Birch of The Raincoats, with making the band more aware of feminist ideas.[4] Aspinall and Birch later formed the band Dorothy which was subsequently signed by Geoff Travis to Chrysalis Records.
References
- ^ Sexton, Paul (7 August 1999). "U.K.'s Fresh Records Spins Out New Sounds". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
- ^ "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. 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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