{"id":623711,"date":"2026-09-13T20:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/623711\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:06:09","slug":"the-raincoats-x-ray-spex-and-the-slits-members-form-supergroup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/623711\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raincoats, X-Ray Spex, and the Slits Members Form Supergroup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members of the seminal punk bands the Raincoats<\/a>, the Slits<\/a>, and X-Ray Spex<\/a> will perform as a supergroup at a London festival next month. \u201cGod Save the Queens,\u201d organized by the Up Yours! collective, celebrates the 50th anniversary of feminist punk<\/a> and precedes the opening of a new exhibit on the movement at the Museum of Youth Culture in Camden.<\/p>\n

The Raincoats\u2019 Gina Birch and the Slits\u2019 Hollie Cook will play with X-Ray Spek\u2019s Lora Logic and Paul Dean for one night only on October 16 at Electric Brixton. Punk historian Vivien Goldman, the author of Revenge of the She-Punks, will also appear at the festival alongside Akiko Matsuura, Rhoda Dakar, Hot Wax, and Celeste Bell, the daughter of pioneering X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene<\/a>. Many of the performers featured on the bill have also contributed archival material, artwork, and more to the exhibit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I wrote Revenge of the She-Punks, it was about mapping out the global lineage of women who used music to dismantle stereotypes and claim their own space,\u201d Goldman said in a statement. \u201cThis festival, and the incredible night we are putting together at Electric Brixton, is that book coming to life on stage. It\u2019s a vital, living continuation of that rebel culture, proving that the female narrative in punk is not an afterthought; it is a driving, evolving force.\u201d<\/p>\n

Logic added: \u201cContributing previously unseen artwork to the exhibition while also stepping onto the stage to play these iconic songs again feels like completing a full circle and is incredibly special. For me, the creative expression of the movement was always multi-dimensional; it was visual art, clothes and noise all at once.\u201d<\/p>\n

Revisit the feature The Story of Feminist Punk in 33 Songs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the seminal punk bands the Raincoats, the Slits, and X-Ray Spex will perform as a supergroup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,43,1905,264940,264941,514],"class_list":["post-623711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-news","tag-textaboveleftsmall","tag-the-raincoats","tag-the-slits","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}