Have any of you been to The We Love 77 show at The Merchant’s Hall in Islington? Two guys have painted pictures of many of the bands around at that time. One paints the left half and the other the right half and to my surprise there was one of the Raincoats. It looks like we are crossing Abbey Road, but Victor one of the painters who painted Ana and is Portuguese assured me, it is supposed to be New York. Zilla’s film was interesting. There were so many different scenes around in punk. We all had such a different experience as well as so many parallel ones. I sometimes teach and the students often like to write about punk…. which punk, whose punk, what time?? There’s no such thing as history, only people’s perspectives. Make sure you get your voice heard!!!

Beautiful sunny day… Lei lei is roller skating up and down the living room and I am trying to fill in an application form for a film festival in Taipei for ‘The Gluts Go To Copenhagen’. The Raincoats are going to play in Japan in June. That’s a first for us. We have talked about this possibility with enthusiasm for years… Hoorah it’s really going to happen!

Hayley and I stayed up til 1.30am finalising the edit of the Gluts (50 minute) video. Hayley is winging her way to Newcastle to install the video at Vane, our gallery in the AV Festival. We are all going up there next weekend to play and we are also going to see Kenneth Anger… in person… Hoorah.

A Raincoats meeting scheduled today.. then running a songbook module at Wmin Uni this afternoon and onto Zilla Minx’s film at 6.45. Busy day today…

I have been teaching myself to yodel and this involves making a very loud noise, so mostly I do this in the car and faintly hope that the noise is not travelling too far. I glance at my neighbouring cars sometimes and wonder if they too are fans of yodelling. My daughter asked me why people yodel and I had to admit it was to be heard from one mountain top to another. It certainly is loud, but I do love it.

Bikini Kill have come up with a great idea
http://www.arthurmag.com/2010/02/09/the-story-of-bikini-kill/
We would love to do something similar for the Raincoats. In the absence of anything more structured right now, if any of you have any stories PLEASE write them and send them to us in the comments section. We’d love to hear any stories, however small or insignificant they may seem.
Picture, photos also welcome…

Spent the weekend in a recording studio…. haven’t done that in a while… recording with Hayley and Kaffe and lovely Sherry Ostapovitch was engineering. We thundered through so many songs I’ve lost count.
I’m doing a phone interview with a Japanese magazine today. All The Raincoats albums are coming out in Japan on P-Vine and we are going to be touring there in June I think…. never played there before so we are really excited about that.
Knitted another 3 bags this week… Can’t stop knitting. Discovered that Kelley Deal has the same bug. Knit one pearl one… and knit again…

Happy Chinese New Year, Happy Valentines Day and Mike, Honey Lei Lei and me are celebrating Christmas Day with my family in Cambridge because snow, accidents and then illness prevented us all getting together til today.