This artist moves fluidly between music, film, and visual art, her work shaped by an early life in less affluent surroundings and by exposure to burgeoning art scenes. She approaches her craft with an experimental spirit, embracing unconventional sounds and forms influenced by punk aesthetics and the artistic movements of her time. After a decade directing films, she now channels her creative energy into sculpture and performing her own music.
Viv Albertine is one of a handful of original punks who changed music, and the discourse around it, forever. Here, before and beyond the break-up of The Slits in 1982, is the full story of a life lived unscripted, with foolishness, bravery and great emotional honesty.
Brave, intimate, and deeply confessional, this is the long-awaited follow-up to Viv Albertine's sensational bestselling memoir.