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 | edit source]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.
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