Rachel Aggs

Rachel Aggs is a London-based musician. Primarily known for her distinctive guitar work, influenced by both West African highlife and post-punk, she also sings and plays the violin.

She has been playing with the band Trash Kit since 2009,^[1] with Ros Murray and Rachel Horwood, which released an eponymous debut album on the Upset! The Rhythm label^[2] in 2010 and a second album, Confidence, in 2014. She has also been a member of Shopping, formed with Andrew Milk and Billy Easter, since 2012. Other bands have included The Madrigals, Covergirl, Golden Grrrls, and Sacred Paws, who released a debut EP in 2015.^[3]

She writes zines, including I Trust My Guitar,^[4] and was involved with the Power Lunches venue in Dalston, East London.^[5]

She has also performed the Pauline Oliveros score To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe, In Recognition of their Desperation, 1970, in a performance in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, 2012,^[6] and on a second occasion in a film-based performance with other musicians Peaches, Catriona Shaw, Verity Susman, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, and William Wheeler in a film of the same name by artists Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz and shown at Museum of Modern Art, New York, in a special event with the artists, Oliveros and Gregg Bordowitz^[7] in May 2014.

External links

• Trash Kit interview, 2010
• Trash Kit interview, 2010
• Golden Grrrls interview, 2013
• Shopping interview, 2014
• Trash Kit interview, 2014
• Sacred Paws interview, 2015
• Shopping interview, 2015

References