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At last.... the Slits in Dublin!!!

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  • 13-04-2006 9:00am
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    bren
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    At last, a rare chance to see the Slits in their classic form...

    The Slits (classic Line-up featuring Ari Up, Viv Albertine, Tessa Pollitt)
    featuring the Noise Mestro Adrian Sherwood (On-Usound, Tackhead)
    on Live Mix.



    Artist: The Slits
    Venue: Crawdaddy
    Date: Wednesday May 3rd
    Support: twincranes & inbetween tunes from those Skinny Wolves DJs
    Time: Doors 8pm
    Admission: 20 euro + booking fee...
    available thru tickets.ie, Road Records & City Discs from Sat 25th March


    Rolling Stone:
    Formed in 1976, by 14-year-old Ariana Forster, the Slits were one of the most unique bands of the British punk era, combining a DIY aesthetic with dub-reggae and a very confrontational stage presence. Today their music still seems out of place, but they represent one of the most important bands of the times. Forster (stage name Ari Up), had grown up in the punk-fostering home of her mother Nora, who had once dated Jimi Hendrix, eventually married Johnny Rotten and frequently gave shelter to penniless musicians. This environment, and a love for reggae, seems to have made Ari Up and the Slits particularly open to experimentation, always straying far from the somewhat confining styles of the late-seventies punk model. Eventually the Slits hooked up with another extremely adventurous band, the Pop Group, and released a split single. Both the Slits and the Pop Group had a major effect on the coming post-punk/No Wave scene that erupted in the U.S., and then again years later, in the early 2000s, when such bands as Seattle's Glass Candy and the Shattered Theater, San Francisco's Tussle, and about 5 zillion bands in NYC and beyond - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Rapture, Oneida, Rah Bras, Erase Errata, Ex-Model, the Gossip... the list is endless, began aping their sound and commitment to the avant-garde.



    Also here's a review of The Slits live in London last week at Selfridges
    by UK journalist Tom Cornfoot. Sounds like it was well worth it.

    Despite my growing reservations about the gig, both bands are fantastic. At 9pm, with little introduction, The Slits explode into action. Ari Up is just phenomenal. The band play a set comprising of classics like FM (from the seminal ‘Cut’ album) and the 1980 single ‘Man Next Door’, but the stand-out track has gotta be Ari’s own ‘Kill Em With Love’ which has the whole crowd of would-be punks bouncing around, and give them their due, some of the accountants loosen their ties.

    “Right now, we’re going to finish with this, I want you all to take, y’know, take something away from this here tonight in Selfridges! This is Shoplifting!” screams Ari as The Slits launch into it. Twice. The Selfridges security start looking seriously uneasy. Three more guards march out in front of the stage, although sadly the spirit of punk doesn’t show when Ari’s pleas, both for some serious shoplifting and a stage invasion are ignored. These guys must have early mornings tomorrow, which is sad. I was born three years after the band split but I CANNOT imagine The Slits as better than this – truly amazing.
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