Women in punk 1975-1980
 

women in punk 1975-1980

This list was compiled to give credit to the many women who played in punk or punk related (experimental, no wave, garage, new wave, etc.) bands from 1975-1980. I'd be happy to have this information used and/or reproduced, but if you are going to print the whole list somewhere please give credit where its due.

TypicalGirls -- Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)
Typical Girls is an e-mail based music dialogue and discussion group for the discovery of (and appreciation for) the unknown legends in women's punk/post-punk/underground music history. TG ideally focuses on pre-riot grrrl female innovators in music circa 1975-80s. Discussion includes, but is not limited to: the Slits, the Raincoats, Y Pants, Ut, ESG, X-Ray Spex (Poly Styrene), Essential Logic (Lora Logic), Young Marble Giants (Alison Statton), Gudrun Gut, Ikue Mori (DNA), X (Exene Cervenka), Delta 5, Alice Bag, Girls at Our Best! (Judy Evans), Patti Smith, Lene Lovich, Laurie Anderson, The Adverts, Jane Aire and the Belvederes, Lydia Lunch, Siouxsie and the Banshees (Siouxsie Sioux), LiliPUT/Kleenex, Rezillos/Revillos (Faye Fife), Shop Assistants, Penetration (Pauline Murray), Diamanda Galas, Yoko Ono, The Runaways, Lemon Kittens (Danielle Dax), Mo-dettes, Bush Tetras, The Avengers (Penelope Houston), Passions (Barbara Gogan), Helen Wheels, Moe Tucker, Wendy O. Williams (Plasmatics), Talking Heads (Tina Weymouth), Pretenders, Fastbacks, Martha and the Muffins, Dolly Mixture, Pearl Harbour, Phranc, Thalia Zedek (Come, Dangerous Birds, Uzi, Live Skull), Marine Girls, Palmolive, Catholic Girls, Toyah, Altered Images (Clare Grogan), Holly and the Italians, Rachel Sweet, Belle Stars, Snatch, Kirsty MacColl, The Motels, Romeo Void, Nina Hagen, the Au Pairs, Hazel O'Connor, Pauline Black (Selector), Marianne Faithfull, Girlschool, Debbie Harry, Poison Girls, Joolz, Vice Squad (Becki Bondage), Niagara Falls (Destroy All Monsters), Prag Vec, and many, many other innovative female musicians.

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Let's not forget Vivienne Dick when it comes to filmmakers.

Here's another good site.
http://www.comnet.ca/~rina/

Some of them are women. Some of them are people who happen to be women. Clare Grogan? I can't be arsed with having an opinion about her. See also: Her out of the pretenders.

I think Lene Levich get not enough mentions here. Silly German silliness a-go-go.

Oddly enough I found a couple of Lene Lovich 7"s in a box under a table in my house the other day. Happy days.

She was American though for heavens sake....and a bit British and a bit Yugoslavian or something.

Was she? I always assume because she's associated with Nina Nastasia... no wait, do I mean her? Nina Hagen, that's the chappy... yes, so the association has caused me to impute her with a Teutonism.

toyah! and the pretenders! oh my oh my oh my. i dont have the energy anymore.

I don't care about women in punk,i just like thread names that have dates or years on them.

"the unknown legends"

Is this a contradiction - how can they be legends if they are unknown? Its like when they say "First annual" - if its the first it can't be annual yet...

www.therunaways.com/









R.I.P. Sandy

When I think of this Wendy O & Patti Smith come to mind