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The Slits: Holland Park School, London
Live Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, January 1978
I BURBLED MY feelings about The Slits for four pages in ZZ75 last July, and happily that resulted in crazed Radio One producer and Zigzag ...
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Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 11 December 1976
Palmolive, drums; Kate Korus, rhythm guitar; Suzi Gutsy, bass; Arianna Forster, lead vocals ...
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977
ONE OF THE arguments trotted out to minimize punk rock was that however good or bad the sound was live, it would be impossible to ...
The Clash etc: Harlesden's Burning
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 19 March 1977
The Clash/The Buzzcocks/The Subway Sect/The Slits: Harlesden Colosseum, London ...
The Clash/Buzzcocks/Subway Sect/The Slits: Harlesden Colosseum, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 March 1977
NICK KENT comes out of hiding to offer himself as a 'punk' sacrifice to the ritualistic 'beat' of THE CLASH, THE BUZZCOCKS, THE SUBWAY SECT ...
The Clash, Buzzcocks, Subway Sect, Slits: Coliseum, Harlesden, London
Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 9 April 1977
THE GRANDLY-NAMED COLISEUM in Harlesden, London, turned out somewhat grander than most people expected. It's no fleapit, more a small local theatre — complete with ...
The Sex Pistols, the Slits: Screen on the Green, Islington, London
Live Review by Sandy Robertson, Record Mirror, 9 April 1977
LIKE THE Pistols' last gig. this was an unpublicised, word-of-mouth affair where you just had to turn up at the door and take your chances. ...
The Front Line: On The Road With The Clash
Report by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 14 May 1977
JOE STRUMMER says he'll smash my face in if I so much as print a syllable of what's said in the dressing room of the ...
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, August 1977
THERE ARE FEW groups I'd rather go and see at the moment than The Slits. They've only been going a few months in their present ...
Slits, Steel Pulse: Clouds, Brixton, London
Live Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 27 August 1977
Once more the NME asks the question on the lips of thousands: Is this woman a prat? Yup, 'fraid so says PENNY REEL ...
Subway Sect, Slits: Music Machine, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 8 October 1977
Some-of-us-take-this-seriously Productions present: THE CAVORTINGS OF CREATIVE PEOPLE ...
Subway Sect/The Slits: Music Machine, Camden, London
Live Review by Jane Suck, Sounds, 8 October 1977
Sect stumble. Slits excite ...
Buzzcocks, The Slits: Thames Polytechnic,Woolwich, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 11 March 1978
Buzzcocks turn pro ...
The Buzzcocks: Another Movie In A Different Cinema
Report and Interview by Jane Suck, Sounds, 25 March 1978
I SMOKE TOO much. I drink too much. I do drugs and don't get off, and, according to Dead Fingers Talk's manager and all the ...
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 7 October 1978
NICK KENT on the wildest waifs in town ...
The Clash/The Slits: Village Bowl, Bournemouth
Live Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1978
IT'S 5.30 in the morning and for some reason I'm stuck on a ledge halfway down a several hundred foot cliff overhanging Bournemouth beach... And ...
The Clash, The Slits: Music Machine, London
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 6 January 1979
A love that burns ...
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, April 1979
THE SLITS AND me in an Interview Situation, eh? Well, hardly. We just chat away (it was better when the cassette was off but I ...
One Day, All Girls Will Be Made This Way: The Slits: Cut (Island) *****
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 1 September 1979
SLACK JAW, warm hearts: Cuts is astoundingly good. ...
The Slits: Cut (Island); Siouxsie & The Banshees: Join Hands (Polydor)
Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 1 September 1979
AS THE Slits sing-song: don't take it seriously. ...
The Slits: Awkward in Interviews, Awkward in Life
Report and Interview by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 22 September 1979
DAVE McCULLOUGH CONFRONTS THE SLITS ...
The Slits, Don Cherry & Happy House, Prince Hammer & Creation Rebel: New Theatre, Oxford
Live Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 29 September 1979
THE LAST time I talked about the Slits was centred around a disorientating weekend in Liverpool at the beginning of this year — a shaky ...
The Slits: Hurrah, New York NY
Live Review by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 12 January 1980
ANOTHER American debut of another new British band at Hurrah's. But this is New Year's Eve and the ticket is 25 bucks – probably a ...
The Slits, The Pop Group: Roll On, Sartre's Marbles!!
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 15 March 1980
THE SLITS: 'In The Beginning There Was Rhythm'/THE POP GROUP: 'Where There's A Will There's A Way' (Rough Trade) ...
Women in Rock: Cute, Cute, Cutesy Goodbye
Interview by Deanne Pearson, New Musical Express, 29 March 1980
Exploited for the last two decades as dumb but pretty decorations in rock, some girls now demand and deserve musical respect — but some girls ...
The Slits, The Pop Group: Rough Justice in the Court of the Purple Paragraph
Interview by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 21 June 1980
Following a more-than-rigorous analysis of the last Slits/Pop Group single, the twin terrors of Rough Trade challenged Ian Penman to a verbal showdown. This is his ...
Slits: Y3LP (Y/Rough Trade import); The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World (Red Rooster/Rounder)
Review by Byron Coley, New York Rocker, September 1980
WHAT WE HAVE here are two sets of women arriving at (arguably) the same place by (unarguably) dissimilar routes. The place in question is Primitivesville ...
The Slits: And Lo, "Three Wise Slits Take Their Temple To The West"
Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 20 December 1980
GAMES ON TRAINS ...
The Slits: Irving Plaza, New York NY
Live Review by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, February 1981
AM I THE only man in the house tonight with the sudden and irrepressible urge to take Ari Up over my knee and give her ...
Rough Trade and Factory: Business Brains in Action!
Interview by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, July 1981
Independent Thoughts From Rough Trade's Geoff Travis And Factory's Tony Wilson ...
The Slits: Return Of The Giant Slits (CBS)
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 17 October 1981
SO SOMEONE else gives up their all to the beat of the drum. Bongos clump, shakers rattle and roll, the bright ching of bells and ...
The Slits: Return Of The Giant Slits
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1981
IN 1977 THE Slits were a noisy, thrashing pupa, slashing at complacent sitcom existences and establishing themselves as an anarchistic, table-turning force. ...
The Slits: Return Of The Giant Slits (CBS 85269)
Review by Chas de Whalley, Record Mirror, 14 November 1981
LONG TERM Slits fans can relax. Just because the girls' latest album appears on the CBS label doesn't mean they've sold out, gone soft or ...
Overview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, January 1986
TO PUT EVERYTHING INTO PERSPECTIVE, AS TO WHERE THE ORIGINALS FROM '76 HAVE GONE; BE IT A WAYSIDE DITCH OR A MAJOR RECORD COMPANY WATER ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 1997
I remember very clearly the first time I heard Cut – it was the summer of '79, I was staying at my aunt's in the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Morley, Uncut, February 2001
I AM A LITTLE nervous as I approach Viv Albertine's house. She was a Slit. For anybody of a certain age who has a penis ...
Post Punk's Not Dead!: ATTACK!
Retrospective by Mark Paytress, MOJO, January 2004
The avant-garde post-'77 post-punk sound was a revolutionary amalgam of funk, punk, disco and reggae. Mark Paytress explains the battle plan. ...
The Slits: The Distaff Side of Punk - The Slits Re-Released at Last
Retrospective by Mac Randall, New York Observer, 14 February 2005
IF YOU ASK PEOPLE to name the most influential punk-rock bands of all time – even people who boast scarily high levels of pop-culture awareness ...
The Slits: Girls Together Outrageously
Interview by Fred Mills, Harp, March 2005
"You haven't said yet how good I look on my Web site!" ...
The Slits: An extract from Typical Girls; The Story Of The Slits
Book Excerpt by Zoë Street Howe, Omnibus Books, 2009
NOTE: Zoe Street Howe managed to interview all four original members of The Slits – Ari Up, Viv Albertine, Tessa Pollitt and Paloma 'Palmolive' Romero ...
The Slits: A Thousand Nights Of Confusion
Comment by Zoë Street Howe, Alex Ogg, Rock's Backpages, June 2009
Zoë Street Howe's new biography of punk's original bad girls, The Slits, is released in July through Omnibus. Alex Ogg tried to find out more about ...
Review by Everett True, bbc.co.uk, October 2009
This is as good as can be expected – and fortunately, that is pretty good. ...
Memoir by Adam Blake, Rock's Backpages, February 2011
AT THE START OF September 2005 I moved into a new place: a rather Agatha Christie-esque 1930s apartment block at the posh end of Ladbroke ...
Retrospective by Vivien Goldman, New Statesman, 31 October 2011
Vivien Goldman charts the history of Britain’s rebellious female punks. ...
The Creative Life of Viv Albertine
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph, 11 May 2014
She hung out with Sid Vicious, trashed hotel rooms and her album was blacklisted. So what's changed for the former punk Viv Albertine – apart ...
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