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The Raincoats, Odyshape
Written for Wears the Trousers 26.08.11 * The wave of musical experimentation which took place in the wake of punk generated many new and startling sounds, some of which endured and grew in influence...
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The outside of everything: a Howard Devoto primer.
Speaking of boredom, let’s start with Tony Wilson’s gloriously earnest and nonchalantly pretentious Buzzcocks/Magazine documentary from 1978. In many ways it seems far longer ago than that, what with...
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A quick request (re. images of women in post-punk).
So: I’ve written a chapter on female post-punk musicians* for a forthcoming women-in-music book. I mostly talk about the Slits, the Raincoats, Linder Sterling, Lydia Lunch (unavoidably), ESG, the Au...
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Last night a DJ ruined my life: a Valentines Day playlist
My resolutely unromantic Valentines Day playlist this year consists of: – Robots in Disguise, ‘Chains’ – Einstürzende Neubauten, ‘Jet’M’ – The Bush Tetras, ‘Too Many Creeps’ – The Slits, ‘I Heard it...
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At swim, two links.
1. I don’t know why I hadn’t come across this piece earlier. The finest music writer this country ever produced, on possibly this country’s finest band: Taylor Parkes on the continuing brilliance of...
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Great Rock n Roll Swindles: Rethinking Justine Frischmann
This post was mostly inspired by the complaint of my fellow Bad Reputation member Sarah J that, when the subject of Elastica comes up, the band are frequently dismissed outright as flagrant copyists...
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Post-punk: a plug and a playlist.
I am in print this month, having written a chapter on women in post-punk for Julia Downes’ new history of the girl band, Women Make Noise. A surprisingly difficult part of this was establishing what we...
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From Olympia to the Valleys: What Riot Grrrl Did and Didn’t Do for Me
[This essay first published in the Wales Arts Review, with artwork by the tremendous Dean Lewis.] With riot grrrl now approaching the status of a heritage industry, not to mention Courtney Love’s...
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