On 15 July 2025, Audrey Golden ‘s book Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats , the first comprehensive biography on the band, was released.
On 5 October 2017, Jenn Pelly’s 33⅓ book The Raincoats , about the band’s first album, was published by Bloomsbury .
The Raincoats invited Angel Olsen to collaborate for the 40th anniversary of Rough Trade at London’s Islington Assembly Hall on 3 November 2016.
The band performed at Matt Groening ‘s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in May 2010 at Minehead in Somerset . The following week, the Raincoats played their debut album live for an ATP Don’t Look Back concert at London’s Scala , supported by the Raincoats-influenced band Trash Kit. On 21 November…
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On 9 November 2009, the Raincoats’ debut album was reissued on vinyl on We ThRee (the band’s own label) in the UK and on the Kill Rock Stars label in the U.S.
Since 1996, the Raincoats have played some special events, such as Wyatt’s Meltdown in 2001, and Chicks on Speed ‘s 99 Cents album-release party in Berlin in December 2003. Birch and da Silva recorded a cover version of “Monk Chant” for a tribute album of Monks songs called Silver Monk…
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In 1995, the Tim/Kerr label released a Raincoats compilation, Fairytales .
O’Loughlin persuaded Birch and da Silva to play a show at The Garage in London in March 1994 with Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) on drums and Anne Wood on violin to celebrate the album re-releases. They recorded a session for BBC Radio 1 ‘s John Peel , which was released…
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In 1992, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana went into the Rough Trade Shop in Talbot Road, London, in search of a new copy of The Raincoats , and Jude Crighton sent him around the corner to see da Silva at her cousin’s antique shop. Cobain wrote passionately about this meeting in…
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The Raincoats recorded Moving in 1984. Tired of constant touring and “pulling in different musical directions,” the band members began work on solo projects shortly after the album’s release. Birch and Aspinall formed Dorothy, while da Silva worked with choreographer Gaby Agis on a series of dance projects and formed…
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