Vicky Aspinall


Victoria "Vicky" Aspinall is a British musician. She was the violinist in the English post-punk band The Raincoats from 1978 to 1984. In 1992, she founded the independent dance label Fresh Records, together with Dave Morgan, initially for releases of their own Lovestation project.

Biography

Aspinall is a classically trained violinist, having graduated from the Royal College of Music, London, in the late 1970s.
She was a member of Jam Today, a part of the Women's Music Movement that developed in the late 1970s, playing a hybrid of jazz and rock similar in approach to groups like Henry Cow.
She was recruited to The Raincoats after she noticed an advertisement which read "female musician wanted: no style but strength" in a radical bookshop in Camden Town. She has been credited, by Gina Birch of The Raincoats, with making The Raincoats more aware of feminist ideas.