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  • From: pascale amzallou <pascaleamz AT yahoo.com>
  • To: "Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)" <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] Vermilion
  • Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 13:33:35 -0700 (PDT)


Have you checked with Vale at Re/Search? The reason I
ask
is that it appears she gets a credit on a newish (last
year or so)
book of JG Ballard interviews he published. I'd love
to know
what happened to her as well.

--- WWWhatsup <joly AT dti.net> wrote:

> Vermilion aka Vermilion Sands was a gf of Vale and
> worked on 'Search & Destroy' zine in LA.
>
> IIRC she hooked up with Rat Scabies at the Damned's
> first shows in NYC
> w. The Dead Boys and returned to London w/ the band.
>
> A loud mouthed red-headed biker chick, she rapidly
> fell in with the local Notting Hill
> leather jacket scene e.g. Lemmy, Chrissie H etc.
>
> She got a job helping Nick Jones run Illegal Records
> (prop M.Copeland) and
> did most of the promotional work.
>
> Around 79 she formed a band, which I remember as
> Venus Envy, but
> according to
> http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/vermilion.htm was
> 'Dick Envy'
> and put out a record.
>
> She was very proud of a publicity photo that showed
> her pissing in a sink.
>
> She was a good friend to have at the time and I've
> often wondered what happened
> to her, and searched the www with not much joy.
>
> The most recent mentions I can find are a Melody
> maker review of the Fall in 1983
> http://visi.com/fall/gigography/bib80-84.html and a
> reference to her managing
> The Business (!) around 82.
> http://www.garry-bushell.co.uk/oi/index.asp
>
> joly
>
> At 02:46 PM 5/14/2006, you wrote:
> >Oops . . . correction already . . . make that
> 1977-1978 as she
> >arrived in London spring of 1977 . . .
> >
> >CLASH22
> >
> >On May 14, 2006, at 11:32 AM, Annette wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry to send this as a reply -- don't know how
> to originate message
> >> to whole list yet -- but I'm wondering if anyone
> ever remembers or
> >> discusses Vermillion, who, believe me, cut a pink
> punk swath thru the
> >> U.K. in 1978 and thereafters. Cut a record too,
> and a good one.
> >>
> >> She was a pioneer in many ways. What do any of
> you know of her?
> >>
> >> CLASH 22
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
>
>
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