Punk's not dicks: Viv Albertine unerases the women

There's a punk exhibition at the British Library right now. You might think it perhaps curious that an anti-establishment movement is being celebrated by the establishment, but the process of assimilation has ensured that a familiar narrative has been smoothed over the spikes of punk.

Not least that women have been dropped from the narrative. Viv Albertine - at the library for an event to mark the exhibition - wasn't having that...

At her talk last night @viv_albertine was so incensed at the exhibition signage's female erasure she amended it 👌👏 pic.twitter.com/x0LD2uem7F

— Gareth Ware (@musicismyradar) July 15, 2016

Update: it turns out it wasn't Viv who did it:

@laurasnapes actually she didn't: a young woman came up to us and announced she'd done it

— Jon Savage (@JonSavage1966) July 16, 2016

Update: it turns out it was Viv who did it:

@JonSavage1966 @laurasnapes - I did do it

— Viv Albertine (@viv_albertine) July 16, 2016

So, erm, hope that's clear.

Reading 2015: It's so boy-boy

This from Viv Albertine's Twitter feed:

On the right, the Reading-Leeds bill announced so far. On the left: the bands with female members.

Two days with not a single woman on either the main or second stage. One stage without any women at all.

It's a pretty poor show.