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I picked up 'I'm_Not_Holding_Your_Coat' to learn about the punk music scene in Philadelphia, in the early 1980s. Specifically, I was interested in the riots that took place at music shows in the Kensington neighborhood in the summer of 1981, (a sore spot in Philly, then & now).
I quickly got sucked into the entire history of Philly's punk music, told through Nancy Barile's autobiography.
I couldn't put the book down.
Nancy paints vivid pictures of what life was like living in center-city during -possibly- Philadelphia's roughest time period. Caught between punk rock's main outposts, New York & Washington, D.C., Philly (and Trenton, NJ) had always been overlooked. Nancy shines a spotlight on this time period and location like no other recording of it has. Especially when told through the eyes of a woman leaving home, surviving, and struggling to --not just to be a part of-- but support & promote the burgeoning punk music scene in Reagan-era Philly.
I was especially moved by one chapter where Nancy's desk-job / law-office employers sat her down to offer help and aid. Seeing the cuts and bruises Nancy was trying to conceal in the buttoned-downed office, they automatically assumed she was involved in an abusive relationship. In fact, the visible injuries were contracted from attending and dancing at punk rock gigs.
Nancy Barile managed the bands, loaded the gear, booked the shows, wheat-pasted the promo posters, worked the doors, kept the lights on and was front and center in the crowd at countless rock shows.
No one could chronicle this time & place in music history better, because she lived & breathed & bruised every moment of it. Please read this book.
