Track Listing

01 Fairytale in the Supermarket
02 No Side to Fall in
03 Adventures Close to Home
04 Off Duty Trip
05 Black and White
06 Lola

01 The Void
02 Life on the Line
03 You're a Million
04 In Love
05 No Looking

The Raincoats

We all love our secret bands. Kurt Cobain came across a Raincoats album, and found there a bunch of soul mates whose honest emotions affected him so much that he tracked down founder member Ana da Silva somewhere in Notting Hill, persuaded DGC (Nirvana's record label) to re-issue The Raincoats back catalogue and encouraged the band to re-form. In 1977 da Silva and Gina Birch, inspired by the example of the Pistols and the Clash, of course, but also by the women of the Slits and X-Ray Spex, had responded to punks DIY call to arms and eventually persuaded the Slits' drummer Palmolive to join their ranks. With the addition of the classically trained violinist Vicky Aspinall, The Raincoats were an all female band who owed nothing to male fantasy outfits like The Runaways, and produced a primeval punk-folk sound on original songs like "Fairytale in the Supermarket" and "In Love" or deconstructing the Kinks' "Lola" with cheek, fun and a pinch of salt.
THE BOOK OF ROCK, Philip Dodd, Pavilion Books, 2001.

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