This celebration of Caribbean culture will include the Metronomes steel band orchestra, a get-fit for Carnival-style workshop with Rock it with Rho and energetic costumed dancers, personal Windrush stories from people of Caribbean heritage and a performance by actor Valentine Hanson based on various Caribbean people from the past. With thanks to The Arts Council Of England & Orbit Beers.Visitors can go on a Caribbean Journey on the evening of Friday 17 June at the award-winning London Transport Museum in the heart of Covent Garden. In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the 2019 reissue also included a bonus track - a cover of "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" Produced by Dennis Bovell, ‘Cut’ was originally released in September 1979 and it remains a post-punk touchstone. Post-Cut, they struck out for pastures new with an expanded line-up including a teenage Neneh Cherry, but split in 1982 after recording the avant-garde-inclined Return Of The Giant Slits for CBS.Īfter a long hiatus, Ari Up and Tessa Pollitt reformed the band sans Viv but with new members including ex Sex Pistol Paul Cook & his daughter Hollie the band recorded and toured extensively until the death of founding member Ari Up in 2010. Cut also broached the UK Top 40 and has since been enthusiastically championed by trailblazing musicians ranging from trip-hop futurists Massive Attack to feminist punks Sleater-Kinney. The album yielded a minor hit single when its most infectious track, ‘Typical Girls’, was released as a spin-off 45, backed with a stripped-down but highly effective cover of Motown staple ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’ (see below). Enhanced by Budgie’s crisp, inventive drumming, the girls’ natural quirkiness came careening to the fore on scratchy but exuberant pop-punk tracks including ‘So Tough’ and the irreverent, anti-consumerist ‘Shoplifting’, but the album’s spacy sensurround also owed a debt of gratitude to Bovell’s deft studio techniques, with his Channel One-esque subterranean dub wizardry gracing highlights such as ‘Adventures Close To Home’ and the brilliant football- and TV-dissing ‘Newtown’. However, the music contained within was every bit as striking. Released in September 1979, Cut gained instant notoriety due to its controversial cover image depicting the three Slits clad in mud and loincloths. Consequently, future Siouxsie & The Banshees drummer Budgie was drafted in to man the traps for the sessions, which were overseen by Dennis “Blackbeard” Bovell, the Barbados-born producer arguably best known for his work with dub reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. Later resurfacing in Rough Trade-sponsored fem-pop DIY stalwarts The Raincoats, Palmolive departed before The Slits recorded their debut LP, Cut. This acclaimed month-long jaunt won The Slits widespread attention, but while that was reinforced by two raw, well-received John Peel BBC Radio 1 sessions, punk had long since morphed into new wave before the band finally inked a deal with Island Records. The Slits supported The Clash on the latter’s spring ’77 White Riot tour: the UK’s first successful nationwide punk package tour, featuring an imaginative bill also involving slots from Buzzcocks and Subway Sect. Dreadlocked, live-wire vocalist Arianna Forster (aka Ari Up) was the daughter of Nora Forster, future wife of Sex Pistols’ vocalist Johnny Rotten, while guitarist Viv Albertine dated The Clash’s Mick Jones and hung out with Sid Vicious. Sassy and streetwise: The Slits were everything girls in a band weren’t supposed to be before punk levelled the playing field, and their debut album, Cut, continues to astound.Īdmittedly, the feisty London-based quartet were well-placed to surf punk’s first wave. The Slits’ ‘Cut’ introduced an atypical group at the vanguard of female-fronted punk, influencing everyone from Massive Attack to Sleater-Kinney. In the words of Tim Peacock in published on September 7, 2019. We are delighted to present the first in a series of vinyl playbacks on a vintage hifi rig in the intimate setting of Louie Louie's basement!įeaturing a Q & A + DJ set with The Slits' bassist Tess Pollitt, this is a unique way to experience the album in its entirety as it would have sounded in the studio when originally mixed + in the company of one of its creators.Īble DJ support comes from DJ Dubplate Pearl, Mr Swing Easy & Softwax
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