Zomrela Laura Kennedy

Po Poly Styrene z X-Ray Spex a Ari Up z The Slits odišla zo ženskej punkovej scény ďalšia známa postava.

V pondelok 15. 11. 2011 zomrela Laura Kennedy, originálna basgitaristka a spoluzakladateľka newyorskej punk-funkovej kapely Bush Tetras.  Tá bola na prelome sedemdesiatych a osemdesiatych rokov  jedným z prvých ženských punkových zoskupení na vtedajšej scéne. Laura dlho bojovala s hepatitídou typu C a v r. 2008 podstúpila transplantáciu pečene. Jej stav sa však neustále zhoršoval. Počas tohto roka sa na jej blogu objavil tento odkaz: 

"Us New York City kids from the '80s, often transplanted from other cities, other countries, occasionally other planets (take a wild guess who I'm talking about) - we've kicked ass. We've taken names, too - and a good many of us have not only lived to tell, but are rockin' the telling and rollin' the living in a way that's inspirational... We keep going, and going and going. I defy you to tell me that all of us weren't defined by that moment in time that we shared. This has been apparent to me for a while, but more so now that we're a decade into the oughts. We were blessed to come together in this life at a time that defined the End of a Century."