VIVIEN GOLDMAN - “DIRTY WASHING” 12″ (1981) | 99 RECORDS"VIVIEN GOLDMAN HQ":http://viviengoldman.com__Vivien Goldman is a writer, broadcaster and cult post-punk musician who has devoted much of her work to chronicling punk and Afro-Caribbean music and culture. A widely published and anthologised journalist, Goldman's fifth book is "The Book of Exodus," (Three Rivers Press,) described as "vivid and intimate" by Rolling Stone. She is the Adjunct Professor of Punk and Reggae at NYU Tisch School's Clive Davis Dept. of Recorded Music; and writes a bi-weekly column on BBCAmerica.com as The Punk Professor. Her previous books also include Marley's first biography, Soul Rebel, Natural Mystic' and The Black Chord, a collaboration with photographer David Corio that chronicles the flowof music through the African Diaspora. A Londoner, Goldman has lived in Paris and now resides in New York.__"99 Records on MySpace":http://myspace.com/99records “Vivien Goldman was a very well connected journalist from London who wrote extensively about the punk and post punk scenes for NME. She used her contacts to pull in Keith Levine, Adrian Sherwood, Robert Wyatt and John Lydon amongst others to make a 7″ which was released on her own tiny UK label Window Records. Whilst on a visit to New York, she took a tape of it to Ed’s shop and he fell in love with it right away and decided he had to put it out on 99. The 99 version is called ‘The Dirty Washing EP’, has completely different artwork and adds the ‘P.A. Dub’ which had appeared on the first New Age Steppers LP on On U Sound. Sadly Vivien never pursued making music and this remains her only ever solo release which is a shame as her lyrics and voice were unique and fabulous. She did however continue to write songs for other artists such as Massive Attack and has gone on to become a globally renowned writer as well as an expert on [r]eggae who still writes to this day.”Also, "Fodderstomp":http://www.fodderstompf.com/, the PiL fan site, sez:__“John Lydon is credited as co-producing ‘Laundrette’, along with Goldman and Keith Levene (who also plays guitar and bass). Apparently this single by music journalist Vivien Goldman was recorded when PiL snuck her into the Manor (studios)during the ‘Flowers Of Romance’ sessions in late 1980, with PiL also reportedly paying for most of the recording costs. It seems this is how Lydon earned his co-producer credit__.__“Launderette” is an incredibly funky, airy stroke of genius, with Goldman’s slightly off-track vocal anchoring a bassline that slinks and crawls along the bottom of the song like a happy little animated worm. Some ethereal melodica wavers in the background, providing the right melancholic air to Goldman’s tale of doomed romance__.via "Egg City Radio":http://eggcityradio.comDownload the track "here":http://www.box.net/shared/static/kf8v0rjswk.mp3