Viv Albertine - Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.(Book)
In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar.
A year later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-girl band the Slits, who fearlessly took on the male-dominated music scene and became part of a movement that changed music.
A raw, thrilling story of life on the frontiers and a candid account of Viv's life post-punk - taking in a career in film, the pain of IVF, illness and divorce and the triumph of making music again.
Not only is Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys a remarkable memoir, it offers one of the most compelling and accurate accounts of the genesis of Punk Rock in London, 1976.
Songwriter and musician Viv Albertine was the guitarist in the hugely influential female punk band The Slits. A confidante of the Sex Pistols and the Clash, Viv was a key player in British punk culture.
Alongside The Slits, she collaborated with numerous musicians, including Adrian Sherwood, before marking out a career in television and film production.
In 2016 she published this, her first book, and followed it up in 2019 with the excellent To Throw Away Unopened.
In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar.
A year later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-girl band the Slits, who fearlessly took on the male-dominated music scene and became part of a movement that changed music.
A raw, thrilling story of life on the frontiers and a candid account of Viv's life post-punk - taking in a career in film, the pain of IVF, illness and divorce and the triumph of making music again.
Not only is Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys a remarkable memoir, it offers one of the most compelling and accurate accounts of the genesis of Punk Rock in London, 1976.
Songwriter and musician Viv Albertine was the guitarist in the hugely influential female punk band The Slits. A confidante of the Sex Pistols and the Clash, Viv was a key player in British punk culture.
Alongside The Slits, she collaborated with numerous musicians, including Adrian Sherwood, before marking out a career in television and film production.
In 2016 she published this, her first book, and followed it up in 2019 with the excellent To Throw Away Unopened.
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