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She was so determined, as I think a lot of women of that generation were, that her daughter wouldn’t live the constrained life that she did – so that generation of mothers after the war bore a generation of feminist, militant girls. But she wasn’t sent anywhere except the 100 Club, and expelled from school, as I was, which forced us into an alternative path.
She joined the Slits as the band's guitarist after founding member Kate Korus left in 1977. I still do it, I can’t help it. Boys, Boys, Boys, was published in 2014 in the UK by Faber and Faber.
In 1991 Albertine wrote and directed the short filmCoping with Cupid, a film about three aliens as blondes that come to earth to research romantic love.
My daughter finds it all very old-fashioned!
Viv Albertine
Albertine was born in Sydney to a Swiss mother and a Corsican father.
I’m trying to do the things that she was never able to do. She was brought up in north London, attended comprehensive school in Muswell Hill, and at the age of 17 enrolled in Hornsey School of Art. After completing a foundation course at Hornsey, she went to Chelsea School of Art to study fashion and textile design.
Her debut gig was at the Windmill in Brixton on 20 September 2009. In March 2010 she released a four-song debut solo EP entitled Flesh on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace! label.
Albertine recorded a cover version of David Bowie's "Letter to Hermione" for the Bowie tribute album We Were So Turned On: A Tribute to David Bowie which was released on 6 September 2010.
Albertine split up with songwriter Mick Jones shortly before he wrote the song.
While continuing as a key member of the Slits, Albertine contributed guitar and vocal work to the 49 Americans' 1980 album E Pluribus Unum.
She became part of Adrian Sherwood's dub-influenced collective New Age Steppers, and played on their self-titled 1981 debut album.
In 2010 she worked with Joanna Hogg on the soundtrack to Hogg's 2010 film Archipelago.
In 2012 she started filming with writer/director Hogg on the 2013 film Exhibition, alongside Tom Hiddleston and Liam Gillick. There is loneliness, there is illness, there are times when you’ve got no security.
I mean, surviving cancer is one thing, but I’ve survived all the knocks too.
Her freelance directing work included stints with the BBC and the British Film Institute.
In 2009 she began performing as a solo artist.
Active - 1978 - 2018 | Birth - Dec 1, 1954 | |
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Viviane Katrina Louise "Viv" Albertine is an Australian-born British singer, songwriter and author, best known as the guitarist for the English punk group the Slits.
There’s a Gloria Steinem quote, which is, “I’m living my mother’s unlived life,” and I think yeah, that’s me. I mean, maybe if Ari knew that she was this or that, and was diagnosed and sent around to different doctors, things would’ve been different. Her debut solo album, The Vermilion Border, was released on 5 November 2012 through the Cadiz Music label.
Everyone has knocks in life, but I’ve put myself in the way of trouble non-stop. Hated.
I never feel nostalgic for that time, because my daughter can walk down the street and be safer than I ever was.