The Raincoats

Reading the story of Rough Trade just now. Great book and it really captures the early period well.

1977-1979 has got to have been a seminal period in British music. Everything changed - the way music was created, marketed and how it became more and more a social and political statement about Britain in a state that it would, for many, be very difficult to recognise now.

I was never really into The Raincoats though. For me The Au Pairs were far more creative musically and a bit more switched on. The Slits were just bonkers!