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The punk who inspired a generation of British woman to pick up a guitar

A review of <em>Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys</em>, by Viv Albertine. A funny, rude, tender, and superbly written memoir

21 June 2014

9:00 AM

21 June 2014

9:00 AM

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys Viv Albertine

Faber, pp.421, £14.99, ISBN: 9780571297757

Viv Albertine is deservedly famous as the guitarist of the tumultuous, all-female English punk band The Slits. Their debut album, Cut, released in 1979, combined jangly Captain Beefheart-style guitarwork with reggae rhythms and sardonic social commentary. Ariane ‘Ari Up’ Forster, the vocalist, added an element of wild-child abandon to Tessa Pollitt’s infectiously heavy bass lines.

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