Vicky Aspinall

Vicky (Vicki) Aspinall (born c. 1956, England) 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

  1. ↑ "Blog Archive » Jam Today – Stroppy Cow Records 1981". Kill Your Pet Puppy. 2008-01-12. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
  2. ↑ The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era by Helen Reddington. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2007. p.142, ISBN 978-0754657736
  3. ↑ Time Out, April 2005