Flaming Nora remembers the forgotten women of punk
This week in her regular weekly column, Flaming Nora backcombs her hair and relives her youth via a new book on women in punk.
I wasn’t sure what to make of it when I read an article in The Guardian this week about “the forgotten women of punk”. Forgotten by whom, exactly? Certainly not by me. Here I am pictured left, age 17 back in 1981, thinking I knew it all and had the crimped, gelled and back-combed hair-do to prove it. Anyway, enough about me and back to the forgotten women of punk.
There’s a new book being released celebrating women in punk bands from the 70s and 80s, women in bands like the Slits, X-Ray Spex and the Raincoats. If you’re asking yourself “who? what?” then have a look at X-Ray Spex on Top of the Pops via Youtube right here and click through below for more news.
The book’s called The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era and comes in at a whopping £55. What price memories, eh? It’s been written by Helen Reddington who says: "I was waiting for someone else to write it actually. I would rather not have bothered because I'm not very good at sitting still but I thought, no one else is going to do this if I don't."
There’s also going to be a telly documentary on the subect which sounds good to my ears too. [Flaming Nora]
