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Slits guitarist Viv Albertine’s memoirs to be adapted for TV

By | Published on Wednesday 2 September 2020

Viv Albertine

Former Slits guitarist Viv Albertine’s two memoirs are set to be turned into a TV series, it has been announced.

Albertine says in a statement that she is “so happy” about the TV project, adding: “Right from the start [the show’s producers] were sensitive to the extremely personal nature of the work and I knew the books were in the hands of producers with integrity. Their vision is perfectly in tune with the work, they understand the subject and the times, I can’t wait for the project to get started and to see all the characters in my story come to life”.

Meanwhile, those producers – Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley and Rachael Horovitz – state jointly: “What an exciting and exhilarating prospect to re-explore a time when music, fashion, political ideologies and sexuality were turned on their heads. So beautifully evoked alongside personal insights and frank reflections of an extraordinary woman’s life in Albertine’s two incredible memoirs”.

“Nothing that has happened before or since can match the explosion that was 70s London punk, and Viv Albertine helped pack the dynamite, place the detonator and light the fuse”, they go on.

“The Slits forged the soundtrack to a gender-bending, iconic cultural revolution and guitarist Viv Albertine was right in the thick of it. She helped create an uninhibited new attitude, a unique musical language and a DIY aesthetic that invaded and ingrained itself into the mainstream”.

The two critically acclaimed books – 2014’s ‘Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys’ and 2018’s ‘To Throw Away Unopened’ – detail Albertine’s upbringing, experiences in the late 70s and early 80s punk scene, and her return to music later in life.



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