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Viv Albertine

May 2021

  • Cruella

    Disney’s Cruella stitches punk’s overlooked female designers into the fabric

    Disney should be the antichrist to true punk aficionados, but Cruella tips the hat to the forgotten DIY fashionistas who made the movement so visible

October 2020

  • Viv Albertine

    The Q&A
    Viv Albertine: ‘I’ve done everything bad I wanted to do. There’s only boring stuff left’

    The musician and writer on body hair, DIY shows and what she wishes she’d told her mother

September 2020

  • Viv Albertine in 2018.

    Viv Albertine's memoirs to be adapted for TV

    Producers behind films including Carol and Moneyball adapting punk legend’s candid pair of books

July 2020

  • Viv Albertine of the Slits

    10 of the best ...
    From Bob Dylan to Viv Albertine: 10 of the best music biographies

    Addiction, poetry, flirting with Scientology: these candid memoirs and biographies reveal the inner lives of musicians

January 2019

  • Viv Albertine

    A new start
    A new start: Viv Albertine on how a house move led to a band, a book – and a divorce

    When the musician left London for the seaside, her mind emptied for the first time – and she realised she had been pursuing the wrong life

December 2018

  • bigbookscomp2

    Best books of 2018
    Best books of 2018: Hilary Mantel, Yuval Noah Harari and more pick their favourites

    Our favourite authors on the most outstanding books they read this year

November 2018

  • Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path, with her husband Moth

    Costa book awards shortlist memoir of homeless couple's coast walk

    The Salt Path by Raynor Winn is acclaimed by judges as ‘an absolutely brilliant story about the human capacity to endure’

September 2018

  • Viv Albertine<br>British musician Viv Albertine of The Slits, portrait, Hackney, London, United Kingdom, 22nd September 2015. (Photo by Kevin Cummins/Getty Images)

    This much I know
    Viv Albertine: ‘It’s a weakness to want to be adored’

    The musician and writer, 63, tells Juliana Piskorz about being in the Slits, the wisdom of older mothers and the genius of Vivienne Westwood

August 2018

  • Cover illustration for midlife writing

    'A different way of living': why writers are celebrating middle-age

    Viv Albertine, Deborah Levy, Lavinia Greenlaw and Rachel Cusk are redefining life after menopause, children or divorce – and it has never looked so good

May 2018

  • Viv Albertine will answer your questions from 12.30pm on May 21.

    Culture webchats
    'My account isn't the definitive truth': Viv Albertine on the Slits, writing and a sumo wrestler's G-string

    The Slits guitarist and author answered questions on everything from being creative to losing her faith in music and why Toy Story 2 is the greatest

April 2018

  • Observer New Review<br>Viv Albertine (Slits) photographed in the Guardian studios. (promoting new book)

    Viv Albertine: ‘I set out to write about an unpleasant woman who fantasised about murder. It turned out to be me’

  • Viv Albertine

    Viv Albertine: ‘I just want to blow a hole in it all’

March 2018

  • Here to Be Heard - the Story of the Slits

    Here to Be Heard: The Story of the Slits review – rise of the punk pranksters

    This baggy documentary charts the career of the tough-talking all-female rockers who redefined the concept of ‘girl bands’

February 2018

  • Viv Albertine, Palmolive, Tessa Pollitt and Ari Up in The Slits.

    Women's rights: 100 revolutionary years
    Viv Albertine on the 1970s: ‘If we terrified men, that’s a result’​

    We Slits ran wild – and men hated us for it. Even in the decade of the pill, Spare Rib and The Female Eunuch, we were ahead of our time

June 2016

  • THE SLITS - 1970S<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ray Stevenson / Rex Features (563337h) The Slits - Viv Albertine, Palmolive, Tessa Pollitt and Ari Up THE SLITS - 1970S

    Music blog
    Mud, music and mayhem: why the Slits' Cut is still up for a fight

    The all-girl punk group’s 1979 LP was provocative for its music and its cover. Thirty-seven years later, on its vinyl rerelease, it’s still courting controversy in the form of a fan-led petition over royalties

November 2015

  • Illustration of Kim Gordon, Chrissie Hynde, Carrie Brownstein, Viv Albertine and Grace Jones

    ‘The history of punk was always HIS story’: the women rewriting rock

    Music memoirs by artists such as Chrissie Hynde and Viv Albertine are taking the publishing world by storm

April 2015

  • Viv Albertine

    My big break: Ken Loach, Caitlin Moran, Lennie James, Grayson Perry and more explain how they made it

    Are the arts today really closed off to anyone who doesn’t have the right background or financial support? We asked musicians, film-makers, actors, artists, architects and others at the top of their field how they got there

February 2015

  • 'Wit and wisdom': Viv Albertine.

    Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine review – brave and beautiful

  • THE SLITS - 1970S

    Nicholas Lezard's choice
    Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine review – more than a punk memoir

December 2014

  • Girlpool

    2015 the year ahead
    Punk, funk, grrrl riots and rebels: the sound of 2015

    Harriet Gibsone: Deers, Girlpool, Slutever, Nimmo, Skinny Girl Diet – meet the lineup of all-women bands rocking the year ahead
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