Viv Albertine at the British Library
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2016
- The guitarist with the Slits and author of Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys talks at the British Library about why being a band of girls was so radical.
What I enjoyed most is Viv's intelligence as a woman and her brilliant communication skills; her competence in managing and communicating the reality of the genesis of punk and the truths about the inner sanctum of punk; her warmth and her agency. An excellent communicator; as warm as buttered toast. I wish very much she was my friend who I could call up and treat to lunch. You are a entirely lovely whole person Viv.
I agree she is a good communicator but she is primarily here due to being in The Slits.
HAPPY DAYS...Favourite nights out to hear the brilliant Raincoats ,Slits and This Heat....all together ...yeah !
How typical that women are last to get mentioned. The struggle goes on! Loved The Slits, such an incredible and iconic band. Always a great interview with Viv!
Loved The Slits growing up. Viv's book was great. Poly, Siouxsie, Chrissie, Pauline, Lene, The Slits, & The Raincoats definitley paved the way in the UK.
The book is fantastic, definitely one of the better musician memoirs.
The Slits' CUT doesn't date. After 40+ years, it holds up to repeated listenings & is as fresh as the day it was made. The Return of the Giant Slits is a different bag of cats, and also holds up very well over time. Viv's books reward repeated readings, especially the second one, which is unique in literature for reasons too long for a RUclips comment. I hope Viv continues writing: Futurity! CHEERS & KUDOS, Viv.
was fortunate to be at this talk at the British Library - was as fantastic in person as in this video. Viv rox x
Viv Albertine's aged rather gracefully! She doesn't look a day over 40!
excellent to catch up with Viv. I really enjoyed reading her book and I highly recommend it. It s so nice to hear such influencial and driven force today. Lovely.Tks v much for sharing this.
Here 6 years later to the day! Just noticed this kismet. What a pleasure to listen to Viv - top raconteur!
The MOST relevant band to come out of Punk. Period.
best interview i have seen for a long time, 40yrs in fact. Every word Viv said is REAL. just a mirror of my own.
Sorry Viv my English is bad , so I speak French , pour dire que ton livre est vraiment très intéressant , agréable à lire et m'a permis de découvrir plusieurs détails et anecdotes de la période punk or post punk in London in the last of the seventies. Ton histoire est très riche , émouvante et je suis content que malgré toutes ces épreuves traversées, tout se termine bien pour toi. Heureusement quelques fois le succès et les bons moments te permettaient de rebondir et d'avoir des périodes de joie et de plaisir . Bravo pour ce livre et grosses bises d'un mangeur de grenouille.
Still powerful, still sussed, still inspiring, still fab
amazing how she can still coreespond so well wehne the interviewer became one of the audience.
Saw the Clash with The Slits in support, the Clash were good but the Slits were amazing, I was into reggae at the time and those girls could do amazing reggae.
+permaveg Was that gig at the Lyceum, London?
"Nostalgia for an age yet to come" rings a certain amount of bells for punk to 'happen again', don't you think? Great listen on a Monday morning is this piece, thanks (and rip Pete Shelley, whilst I'm on it). XX
The Slits had a timbre fascinating. I was walking through Bristol and two guys behind talked, 'Is that a man or a woman... dunno but I wanna fuck it'.
Now 20 years later I make electronic music. Life.
Viv is really cute...which is an odd observation to make in regards to a middle aged woman...but she is. :)
I adore her points of view, her observation of life and her "do it yourself attitude". She's as punk as it gets.
yes i find it very difficult to listen to recorded music at age 60 though i still enjoy live music and i probs would enjoy hiphop on radio but don't want to disturb my neighbor above
She's such an inspiration. Thank you for the upload!
Woman starts interview with a moan.
How refreshing.
Viv Albertine you are beautiful X
God, I miss those days.
Forever treasure my copy of Cut as signed/slit with a badge pin by them all💛
I was there. Viv's still hot!
and you're still patronising!
As a dude getting into the Slits, I have to say, that would have been the raddest band to be in. Shame Patti Smith wasn't a fan of Ari tho hahahaha!
She's wearing well.
And beautiful hair
At 16:43 she is speaking about Ari getting stabbed, I would say it's because people knock what they don't understand. They were not liked because they represented their own form of change. People tend to stick together like sheep, they were different. They used voice in many forms, for themselves, showing people what is and what can be done with yourself and society. Different still hasn't changed. It's who people are and they are who they are, let them be.
The Slits: They wanted to change the world and they did.
who's that John guy at the end ?
What a classy attractive lady .Jesus when you compare to what's out there today passing as singers and musicians .
You're comparing an aging 60 year old woman to 20+ year old energetic young women? Like comparing apples & onions.....OK BOOMER !
Is she thinking Typical Girl?
Nobody dresses how they feel? Really? That's basically the job of the teenager since the 50s.
viv for pm......
Love Viv's books, but listening to this and having lived through punk when I was young its almost as if it never happened! Everything now seems even more corporate and conformist than ever, carefully controlled and self policed.
you are being moinitored 24/7 behave yourself or else ?
I want those jogging pants.
if young women really are interested in the slits u dont see any in the audience?
i think you could say to some degree a homemaker woman is a doctor and lawyer?
I just re read her two books which are excellent. My only complaint is her generalizing men all the time and her sweeping statements. Men didn’t buy into romantic music growing up? Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity puts across exactly the same thing. ‘They’re always on about how violence in films influences young men but nobody asks how a steady diet of love songs fuck you up’. In her second book she goes into how she was raised to view men in a negative light. Most of us in our 60s now have had a rough ride romantically, but that’s life. You don’t have to construct a conspiracy around it. However, I’ll read the next one if she writes it and Clothes, Music, Boys remains one of the very few great rock autobiographies.
*All due credit to Albertine for her career. I still find it strange that women consider a few decades in the evolution of gender politics as if complete changes in behaviour and perceptions should have changed. I just find it quite odd*
'Crispy pubic hair ' LOL
middleclass posh bird talks to a middleclass posh bird all right