At the launch party for her memoir in 2014, the musician Viv Albertine received news that her mother was dying, and spent a few final hours with the woman who was, in a sense, the love of her life.
Viv Albertine Book order (chronological)
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.
SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR MOJO BOOK 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.
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
- 421 pages
- 15 hours of reading
"First published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Ltd"--Title page verso.