Una Baines's mother was Irish, her father was British.
12 Facts About Una Baines
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Una Baines met Smith at college, but both left after finding studying financially difficult.
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Una Baines was originally going to be the drummer in the group but realised that she would be unlikely to be able to afford a drum kit.
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Una Baines did not play at the band's first gig on 23 May 1977, as she had applied for a bank loan to enable her to buy a keyboard, and it had not arrived in time.
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Una Baines made her debut at the Fall's second gig, on 3 June 1977, in Manchester.
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Una Baines played on the band's first recording session, on 9 November 1977 at Indigo Studios in Manchester.
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Una Baines left the Fall in March 1978, having played a little over 20 gigs with the group.
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Una Baines went on to form Blue Orchids with Martin Bramah, when he quit the Fall in 1979.
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Una Baines then formed a predominantly female band called the Fates, who released the album Furia on Una Baines' own Taboo label in late 1985.
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In 2002, an article revealed that Una Baines was working at a community centre in Whalley Range, South Manchester, where she was in the process of setting up a female musicians' collective.
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In 2015 Baines worked with Australian comic book artist Keith McDougall to produce I'll Be Your Mirror, a graphic memoir with the first issue focusing on her teenage relationship with Mark E Smith.
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In 2016 Una Baines continues to work in music with a predominantly female 8-piece group called Poppycock, for which she writes the songs, plays keyboards and occasional guitar and vocal.