Gina Birch

Meeting my 'misspent youth' face to face again, bumping into the bass player of Kilburn and the High Roads, Keith Levene the lynchpin of English punk from forming the Clash to Public Image to playing with me now, Gaye Advert and Gina Birch [of the Raincoats] two of the original rrriot girls, Steve Diggle blazing on guitar at last night's full Buzzcocks reunion, Pig Youth of Killing Joke bringing memories of massive CND demos we both played at. Read More

Not content to work in one medium -- the brittle, minimalist folk-dub music they've been playing since the dawn of British punk -- the Raincoats showed up Saturday night at New York City's Museum of Modern Art with their own photographs. Read More