British guitarist Viv Albertine is proof that anybody can reinvent themselves and start over late in life. In the mid-'70s, she was once a member of The Slits, one of the first predominantly female ...

“Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke,” Viv Albertine, guitarist for the all-female punk band The Slits, wrote in the introduction to her first book Clothes, Clothes, Clothes.

“Too much throwing liquid.” Thus opined an early reader of the middle-aged Englishwoman/punk-rock avenger Viv Albertine’s memoir To Throw Away Unopened, commenting (Albertine tells us) on the second ...

In 2014, former Slits guitarist Viv Albertine released Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys, a memoir that took her from childhood, to art school and punk, with much of the ...

Viv Albertine is not a household name, but Madonna, Kurt Cobain, and Carrie Brownstein have all been inspired by her. In her memoir “Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys” ...

Clothes, music and boys are indeed explored throughout “Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.,” Viv Albertine’s memoir of a life spent at the center of the British punk ...

The memoirs of legendary punk musician and The Slits guitarist Viv Albertine are being adapted for TV by 'Carol' producer Number 9 Films. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Elizabeth Karlsen and ...

Viv Albertine, guitarist of the pioneering dub-punk band the Slits from 1977 to 1982, is having her memoirs turned into a new TV series. Variety reports that her 2014 book Clothes, Clothes, Clothes.

Punk guitarist has published two books, 2014's Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys and 2018's To Throw Away Unopened “I’m so happy that Rachael, Elizabeth and Stephen are ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, in for Terry Gross. 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.

Renowned punk musician Viv Albertine’s memoirs will be adapted as a TV series by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley’s Number 9 Films (“Carol”) and Rachael Horovitz’s (“Patrick Melrose”) West Fourth ...