“We played with no rules or conventions”

August 15, 2022 5:05 AM

Strike! How 80s post-punk band Lining Time crystallised a moment in feminist protest history by Tayyab Amin is a profile of the early 80s all-woman band from Totnes in Devon, whose only album, Strike!, has been reissued on Bandcamp and is available in full on streaming services, including YouTube Music. The reissue of the album was at the behest of Les Amis de Cathy Josefowitz, an organization devoted to safeguarding the artistic legacy of one of Lining Time's founding members, the others being Claire Bushe, Cathy Frost, Lisa Halse and Mara de Wit.
posted by Kattullus (3 comments total)

Just want to say my appreciation for your pointing out this music.
posted by larrybob at 10:45 AM on August 15, 2022 [1 favorite]

ditto larrybob
posted by y2karl at 1:49 PM on August 15, 2022 [1 favorite]

They went to Dartington College of Arts. I also went to Dartington College of Arts, though a long while after them. I can provide a bit more context. DCA was a wildly experimental art school that really stressed the importance of community-based work. In their final year, undergraduates would be sent out to make work in the surrounding communities, as a kind of test-by-fire of what they'd learned. It was a bit more structured and less radical when I was there, and often involved an Erasmus exchange with another university for a semester, but if I have my history right I think that when they were there the college rented or owned or otherwise had a house in Plymouth, for students to stay in, and just sent them off to find their own way as best they could. So their time in Plymouth was probably part of their final project for their degrees.
posted by spindle at 1:51 PM on August 15, 2022 [2 favorites]