# Ana Da Silva

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Radar: Gina Birch - The Raincoats

Gina Birch has been creating groundbreaking sound and images for nearly five decades. Best known as a founding member of the pioneering post-punk band The Raincoats, Birch helped shape a musical vocabulary that was raw, self-determined, and unconcerned with the rules. Formed in 1977 with Ana da Sil…

The Raincoats - Storming the Social Conscience

In 1977 two art school students in London, Ana da Silva and Gina Birch, would start the post-punk band, The Raincoats. Not only did they develop an unusual sound and approach to music incorporating experimental and other elements, but this band also that took on social and political issues. The Rai…

Audrey Golden - Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats

Audrey Golden in conversation with David Eastaugh https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/shouting-out-loud https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shouting-Out-Loud-Lives-Raincoats/dp/1399624865 Art students Gina Birch and Ana da Silva formed The Raincoats in 1977. Since the release of their seminal ear…

Audrey Golden, "Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats" (Da Capo Press, 2025)

In Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats (Da Capo Press, 2025) Audrey Golden traces the history of the iconic band The Raincoats staring of the founding by Art students Gina Birch and Ana da Silva in 1977. Since the release of their seminal early records, the band has been revered by punk, quee…

Audrey Golden, "Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats" (Da Capo Press, 2025)

In Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats (Da Capo Press, 2025) Audrey Golden traces the history of the iconic band The Raincoats staring of the founding by Art students Gina Birch and Ana da Silva in 1977. Since the release of their seminal early records, the band has been revered by punk, quee…

The Four Horsemen 3: Famine

They came to earth—Pestilence, War, Famine, Death—four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth, and they came to end us all. Ana da Silva always assumed she’d die young, she just never e…

Episode 696: Gina Birch of The Raincoats

On today's episode, I talk to musician Gina Birch. Originally from Nottingham in the UK, Gina formed the seminal art-punk band The Raincoats with Ana da Silva in 1977. They released three incredible records on Rough Trade - self-titled, Odyshape and Moving - and then broke up in 1984. But this was …

"When the World Caught Fire."

Set against 1970s Britain and a world in upheaval, this episode traces how youth culture, political rupture, and lived experience collided, forcing protest out of the background and into everyday life. Voices of Protest, Season 2 of Destroy! The Influence of Punk begins where dissent became impossi…

“Refusing to Behave”

What happens when people stop performing the roles they’ve been assigned? Step outside the social guardrails. Take exception to the rules.  In E4, we look at the power of refusal: the women making noise before they were invited in, artists rejecting respectability in favor of disruption, writers re…