Viv Albertine - Wikipedia
Albertine was a key figure in the 1970s punk scene, and was the on/off girlfriend of Mick Jones of the Clash. In 1976, she formed the Flowers of Romance with Sid Vicious. She joined the Slits as the band's guitarist after founding member Kate Korus left. She was hesitant to join an all female band, but she changed her mind after her friend Chrissie Hynde told her to 's… See more
Early lifeAlbertine was born in Sydney to an English mother of partial Swiss ancestry and a Corsican father. She was brought up in north London, attended comprehensive school in Muswell Hill, and at the age of 17 enrolled in … See more
The Punk Legend Viv Albertine Tells All - The New York …
Nov 25, 2014 · In the 1970s, Viv Albertine was fully entrenched in the English punk scene, a world defined for her by music, blokes and, often, violence. Albertine befriended now-infamous figures like...
Punk Icon And Memoirist Viv Albertine On A Lifetime Of Fighting …
One of the first women bands to play punk, defying the preconceptions about how women should look and sound, was the British band The Slits. Our next guest, Viv Albertine, was the …
Viv Albertine on a life of nonconformity: 'I’m not a legend, but I do ...
Viv Albertine is not a musician. Briefly, in the late ’70s, when her band The Slits found themselves at the heart of punk, sharing bills with the Sex Pistols and The Clash and releasing …
Punk Legend And Memoirist Viv Albertine On A …
Jul 16, 2018 · Viv Albertine was a guitarist and lyricist for the punk band The Slits. She is also the author of two memoirs. Growing up in North London in the 1960s and '70s, Viv Albertine never...
A Punk Memoir That Makes The Ordinary Seem Transcendent
Dec 5, 2014 · Viv Albertine, a teenager imagining John Lennon as her boyfriend, gets right to the importance of Beatle music. And her use of the present tense, recounting her history in …
Like Choosing A Lover: Viv Albertine’s Favourite Albums
Apr 18, 2013 · Speaking to The Quietus about her Baker’s Dozen choices, Albertine says that ‘in nearly all my choices there’s humour, an openness, and an unpretentiousness.’ Click the …
Punk Legend And Memoirist Viv Albertine On A Lifetime Of …
Jul 16, 2018 · If you're just joining us, my guest is Viv Albertine, who first became known as a member of the girl punk rock band The Slits. And that was in the late '70s. She's written two …
Viv Albertine Has Used Her Rage to Write Herself into Punk …
Apr 13, 2018 · Those shuffling past in tour groups may not even twig that she was the guitarist in The Slits, the groundbreaking experimental British punk rock band of the late 70s and early 80s.
For Viv Albertine, Honesty Is As Punk As It Gets - Literary Hub
May 9, 2018 · Born in Australia and raised in London, Albertine had entered the public eye—and taken more than her share of shit from that public—in the mid-70s as the guitarist of the …
