Heavy weather: the troubled career of the Raincoats

They were a punk act who couldn't get along – until Kurt Cobain sorted them out. Here come the Raincoats againWhen Gina Birch and Ana da Silva decided to start a band in the late 1970s, they were art students who "knew nothing" about music. "Ana knew a couple of chords," says Birch, "and I could sing along with a few hymns and rock'n'roll tunes." But this was the do-it-yourself punk era, and the pair felt so inspired by their nights out at notorious London clubs like the Roxy (and by anot...

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