Slits


Interviews


Interview (2018)

Slits - Interview

John Clarkson talks to Tessa Pollitt, the former bassist with seminal all-girl punk band The Slits, about the new film documentary 'Here to Be Heard: The Story of The Slits’, and its accompanying scrapbook.


Interview (2010)

Slits - Interview

The guitarist and main songwriter in the 70s punk act the Slits, Viv Albertine recently returned to making music after an absence of nearly thirty years. She speaks to John Clarkson about her former band and her new EP


Interview with Ari Up (2005)

Slits - Interview with Ari Up

Former Slits frontwoman Ari Up has recently released a new solo album 'Dread More Dan Dead'. She talks to Adam Wood about it, her past career and living in the jungle with South American Indians


Profiles

Here to Be Heard: The Story of the Slits (2018)

Slits - Here to Be Heard: The Story of the Slits

Nicky Crewe finds that a new revealing and entertaining documentary about the Slits will remind fans of just how special they were. It is bound to inspire a new generation too.


1962-2010 (2010)

Slits - 1962-2010

Jon Rogers reflects on the extraordinary life of Slits front woman Ari Up, who died at the age of 48 on the 20th October


Live

ABC2, Glasgow, 9/5/2010

Slits - ABC2, Glasgow, 9/5/2010

At the ABC2 in Glasgow, Tony Gaughan finds all-female punk/reggae act the Slits to have lost none of their fieriness or sense of fun in an energetic set to promote 'Trapped Animal', their first album in over twenty years


Related


Interviews

Zoe Howe
Interview Zoe Howe - Interview

Music writer Zoe Howe talks to Adrian Janes about her first novel, 'Shine On, Marquee Moon', her biographies of the Slits and the Jesus and Mary Chain, and why self-publishing is punk


Live

Pop Group
Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, 20/10/2014 Pop Group - Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, 20/10/2014

Tony Gaughan finds that seminal post-punk outfit the Pop Group have lost none of their abrasive edge in a dynamic show at the Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh on their first full-length UK tour in over thirty years


Features

#5 - ‘We all have good intentions/ But all with strings attached’: Music and Mental Health Part 2 In Dreams Begin Responsibilities - #5 - ‘We all have good intentions/ But all with strings attached’:  Music and Mental Health Part 2

In his regular column ‘In Dreams Begin Responsibilities’, Steve Miles continues to looks at the issue of mental health and reflects on the positive effect of music and songs by The Gang of Four, The Fall, The Television Personalities, Black Uhuru, The Au Pairs and The Slits on his adolescence.