Music, Music, Music. Northern soul scenes are thriving despite the cost of living crisis, The Met police are trying to shut down Brixton Academy, Create your own Tyler, the Creator travel license, Poligraf: Armenian nightclub brutally raided by police. ALBERTINE: It was just so extraordinary to watch her because she loved the radio, listened to the radio. Ari was stabbed on two separate occasions by angry men. [3], Albertine was a key figure in the 1970s punk scene, and was the on/off girlfriend of Mick Jones of the Clash. I dont know, but maybe the relationship with her father had something to do with it. Speaking in this week's Letter to My Younger Self, Albertine, who has recently released two acclaimed books about her life, reveals how difficult she found life in the band, who reformed without her in 2009. Oh, Ive already had interviewers say to me, Youre not a nice person and no one in the book is nice, she says. Are we gonna get thrown off the plane cos Aris too loud or taken into customs or thrown out of the hotel or arrested? A traditional father would have been worried about us going out dressed like that and behaving like that. Does it look odd to have my skirt this short with a guitar, or should I have it a bit longer so it sticks out the bottom? Greil Marcus on Viv Albertine's autobiography This is FRESH AIR. GROSS: Well, why don't we hear a track from The Slits' first album? It's now out in paperback. Too much. "We tried to listen to the rhythms within ourselves and take the normal words we used every day in our normal thoughts, which girls hadn't written about before.". BBC - My culture picks: Viv Albertine Next thing I knew I had bought a Fender Telecaster (not the real thing, a copy), taken it home and started to play again. ALBERTINE: She can't read the books. Kath brought up her two daughters, Viv and Pascale, in Muswell Hill with her Corsican husband, Lucien, until he walked away from the family in 1967. I see music as a vehicle like writing or film-making, but I dont think its a very relevant medium for me at the moment. So tough. And, of course, the young women, especially us, The Slits, who were drawn to being in a band couldn't play because we'd never had role models and never occurred to sit in our bedrooms playing electric guitar. ALBERTINE: Well, I was raised to have very, very little respect for men by my mother. Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. As both her books attest, she does seem to have had a run of bad luck on the boyfriend front. But for a young white woman in London, it isn't so hard as it was for me, so I don't think she has the same level of anger.
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