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===[[Seth Wickersham]]===
[[Image:Raincoatscover.jpg|frame|right| [[The Raincoats (album)]] 1979]]
I tagged this for [[wikipedia:proposed deletion|proposed deletion]] on 17th, on the grounds that it's an unsourced orphan living bio. On 22nd an admin browsing the category of ripe prods decided to remove the tag because "There is some claim to notability in the article (writing for ESPN. The Magazine)". Well obvious, I didn't tag it for speedy, but anyway here we are. My proposal is that we either spend the next five days sourcing this article, or delete it. --[[User talk:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway]] 23:47, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
'''The Raincoats''' were formed in [[1977 in music|1977]] by [[Ana da Silva]] ([[singer|vocals]], [[guitar]]) and [[Gina Birch]] (vocals, [[bass guitar|bass]]) while they were students at ''[[Hornsey College of Art]]'', [[London]], [[England]]. The first line-up included [[Ross Crighton]] on guitar and [[Nick Turner]] on drums for the band’s first gig in November 1977. [[Kate Korus]], from [[The Slits]] and later [[The Mo-dettes]], joined briefly and was replaced by [[Jeremie Frank]]. Nick Turner left to form [[The Barracudas]] and [[Richard Dudanski]] (ex[[The 101ers|The 101'ers]] and later PIL) sat in on drums and film maker Patrick Keiller replaced Jeremie Frank on guitar.
:'''Keep''' as a stub, with this source [http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?name=wickersham_seth&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fespn%2fblog%2findex%3fname%3dwickersham_seth]. He not only writes for ESPN, but has written for The Sporting News and was an intern at the Washington Post.--[[User:Sethacus|Sethacus]] 02:01, 23 July 2007 (UTC)(formerly Ispy1981)
Late in 1978, The Raincoats became an [[all-women band|all female]] [[post-punk]] band, when joined by [[Palmolive (musician)|Palmolive]] of [[The Slits]] ([[drum]]s), [[Vicky Aspinall]] ([[violin]]) and manager [[Shirley O'Loughlin]]. The band went on their first UK tour with [[Switzerland|Swiss]] female band [[Kleenex (band)|Kleenex]], in May 1979 after [[Rough Trade]] Records released their first single "Fairytale in the Supermarket"/ "In Love"/ "Adventures Close to Home".
* '''Delete''' not notable per nominator. He appears to be "just a journalist", and the who he writes for does not amount to much of a notability claim. You would expect to see his name of by-lines, but I do not believe it fulfills [[WP:BIO]]. If you remove espn.go.com, he scores [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22seth wickersham%22 -espn.go.com -wikipedia&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=DZq&start=130&sa=N 123 unique GHits] [[User:Ohconfucius|Ohconfucius]] 05:46, 23 July 2007 (UTC) [[User:Ohconfucius|Ohconfucius]] 05:46, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Palmolive left the band after their seminal first album ''[[The Raincoats (album)|The Raincoats]]'' and [[Ingrid Weiss]] joined in 1980, when the band began recording their second album ''[[Odyshape]]'', and toured Europe and the east coast of the USA. Guest musicians on ''[[Odyshape]]'' included [[Robert Wyatt]], [[This Heat]]'s [[Charles Hayward (musician)|Charles Hayward]] and [[Richard Dudanski]].
In New York, December 1982, The Raincoats recorded a live album at the arts space The Kitchen. ''[[The Kitchen Tapes (The Raincoats)|The Kitchen Tapes]]'' (live) was released on [[ROIR]] in 1983. The band split after [[1984]]s ''[[Moving (album)|Moving]]'' LP.
In 1992 [[Kurt Cobain]] of [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] went into the [[Rough Trade Records|Rough Trade]] shop in London in search of a new copy of ''[[The Raincoats (album)|The Raincoats]]'' and Jude Crighton sent him round the corner to see Ana da Silva. Cobain wrote passionately about this meeting in the liner notes of Nirvana’s ''[[Incesticide]]'' album. [[riot grrrl]] was at its height and bands like [[Bikini Kill]], [[Huggy Bear]] and [[Hole (band)|Hole]], who covered Cobain’s favourite Raincoats’ track “The Void,” prompted interest in the bands’ back catalogue. In late 1993 [[Rough Trade]] and [[DGC Records]] released the three albums with liner notes by Kurt Cobain and [[Kim Gordon]].
Shirley O'Loughlin persuaded Ana da Silva and Gina Birch to play a show at the Garage in London in March 1994 with [[Steve Shelley]] of [[Sonic Youth]] on drums and Anne Wood on violin to celebrate the album releases. They recorded a session for [[John Peel]], which was released on Paul Smith’s [[Blast First]] and Steve Shelley’s label [[Smells Like Records]]. Kurt Cobain invited them to play on Nirvana’s planned UK tour in April, but he died a week before the tour began. Ana da Silva and Gina Birch had written some new material and released a new album ''[[Looking in the Shadows]]'' on [[DGC Records]] and [[Rough Trade]] in [[1996]], produced by [[Britpop]] producer [[Ed Buller]] (who'd previously worked with [[Suede (band)|Suede]] and [[Pulp (band)|Pulp]]) (see [[1996 in music]]). Musicians include [[Anne Wood]] (violin, bass), [[Heather Dunn]] (drums) and [[Pete Shelley]] ([[Buzzcocks]] and solo artist).
Since 1996, The Raincoats have played a couple of special events such as Robert Wyatt’s [[Meltdown (festival)]] in 2001 and at [[Chicks on Speed]]'s “99 cents” album release in Berlin in December 2003. Ana da Silva and Gina Birch have recently recorded a version of “Monk Chant” for a compilation of [[The Monks]] songs called “Silver Monk Time” released in October 2006.
==Solo activities==
[[Gina Birch]] worked with [[Mayo Thompson]] on [[Red Crayola|The Red Krayola's]] [[1981 in music|1981]] ''Kangaroo?'' [[Vinyl record|LP]] (see [[1981 in music]]) and in [[1988 in music|1988]], and formed '''Dorothy''' with Vicky Aspinall releasing a series of 12" singles. She formed [[The Hangovers (band)|The Hangovers]] and released an album, ''[[Slow Dirty Tears]]'', in [[1998 in music|1998]] on [[Kill Rock Stars]] and they toured in the States as a full band, and in [[2000 in music|2000]] Gina Birch and Ida performed live at the first [[Ladyfest]] in Olympia Washington and in 2002 at the London Ladyfest. The Hangovers played in Moscow in February 2003. Gina continues to play mainly in London often accompanied by her film and video work and has also directed music videos, including those for [[The Libertines]], 'Up the Bracket', 'Time for Heroes' and 'I Get Along', plus two for [[New Order]], and also [[Beth Orton]], [[Daisy Chainsaw]], [[the Pogues]], [[the Veils]] and others.
[[Ana da Silva]] released an album called ''[[The Lighthouse (album)|The Lighthouse]]'' on [[Chicks on Speed]]'s record label in February 2005. Stuart Moxham of the [[Young Marble Giants]] collaborated on one of the album tracks “Modinha” and she recently performed in London, Munich, Portugal and Ladyfestspain in Madrid.
==Discography==
===Albums===
*[[1979 in music|1979]] - ''[[The Raincoats (album)|The Raincoats]]''
*[[1981 in music|1981]] - ''[[Odyshape]]''
*[[1983 in music|1983]] - ''[[The Kitchen Tapes (The Raincoats)|The Kitchen Tapes]]'' (live)
*[[1984 in music|1984]] - ''[[Moving (album)|Moving]]''
*[[1996 in music|1996]] - ''[[Looking in the Shadows]]''
===EPs===
*[[1983 in music|1983]] - ''[[Extended Play (THe Raincoats)|Animal Rhapsody]]''
*[[1994 in music|1994]] - ''[[Extended Play (The Raincoats)|Extended Play]]''
===Singles===
*[[1979 in music|1979]] - “Fairytale in the supermarket”/”In love”/”Adventures close to home”
*[[1982 in music|1982]] - “No one’s little girl”/”Running away”
*[[1983 in music|1983]] - “Animal rhapsody”/”No one’s little girl”/”Honey mad woman”
*[[1996 in music|1996]] – “Don’t be mean”/”Vicious”/”I keep walking”
==External links==
* [http://www.theraincoats.net The official Raincoats site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/theraincoats The Raincoats myspace site]
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