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  • From: "Dina Hornreich" <dina.hornreich AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)" <typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [TypicalGirls] vice squad
  • Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:53:06 -0600

Sounds like Vice Squad doesn't quite meet the criteria for having "significant female contribution."

On 6/4/07, T.E. Meire < elraydelmundo AT hotmail.com> wrote:

Vice Squad while being a pinnacle of the UK '82 punk sound simply has had two women singers, all the people that play instruments are men.  Wouldn't the Partisans or Adverts be better since a woman was actually playing an instrument?  Hell even though Rock Goddess was  a cheesey metal band, they all played instruments, didn't just sing. The Gymslips aren't that punk but they did play all their own instruments and sing their own songs.  I do mean "just sing" because she wasn't really a "frontwoman" like Wendy O. was, I wouldn't every say Wendy "just sang" because she led the band and devised much of their stage show.  Becki Bondage sang dressed 'punk'.  That's really it, not very inspirational.  Action Pact also had Cheecks who was a singer and although she did mostly sing, she also wrote songs and wasn't the original singer. She was picked out of audience when the band's male singer left (only because she knew all the words to the songs... ha!)

Just this punk record nerd's 2 cents.

Theresa.


 


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