Faber & Faber
Viv Albertine | Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys
£10.95
9780571328284
PB
420 pages
SUNDAY TIMESMUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR
ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR
MOJOBOOK OF THE YEAR
In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn’t play an instrument and she’d never seen a girl play electric guitar.
A year later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-girl band the Slits, who fearlessly took on the male-dominated music scene and became part of a movement that changed music.
A raw, thrilling story of life on the frontiers and a candid account of Viv’s life post-punk – taking in a career in film, the pain of IVF, illness and divorce and the triumph of making music again – Clothes Music Boys is a remarkable memoir.