C2 Present The Slits @ The Pressure Point: 26th June 2003
Published 2nd Jun 2003 by Alison

Thursday 26th June @ Concorde 2 presents The Slits @ The Pressure Point. Punk band fronted by Ari Up who still has her aggressive and confrontational edge & a sound which is most definitely her own: this show will comprise of both the Slits' older songs (in the traditional punk genre) as well as newer compositions (heavy on the reggae, dub and other experimental influences) + DJ?s Steve Chaos & Johnny Rocks . 7pm ? 10pm. ?10.


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Biog:

Look out wimps! The SLITS is gonna bite ya!

THE FACT that the Slits are female SHOULD be irrelevant but I can't help mentioning it. Women playing "rock" in general are so utterly pathetic that it's really inspiring when you see some of them acting like intelligent people instead of brainless nincompoops.

The Slits are unique. They shatter all their female contemporaries (and most of the men too) into tiny shreds because they are a group who understand how to rock properly!

Forget all you've read about them not being able to play, or that they're just a gimmick. The truth is, they scare hell out of most men, who get paranoid and try to put them down. Palmolive's one of the best drummers ever, she simply batters her poor drums to death, no messing about, and Tessa Pollitt, on the bass plays sturdy and hard, chewing mean and moodily on bits of gum she'll spit out into the audience. Viv Albertine is one of the most under-rated guitarists around, slashing out a howling spine-tingling noise like some scurvy pirate just escaped from captivity in her skull and crossbones T-shirt.

Ari-Up's really special, kind of like a female Rotten or something. She has 90 per cent of the dumbo audience gawking in amazement from the word Go; you can see them thinking "Gosh what a loony - eek, don't let it near me!"

The first time I saw the Slits I thought, unsurprisingly, that they were absolutely atrocious, but once they had phased the stiffs out of the line-up and got Viv in, all of a sudden they seemed to blossom. Now they are one of my very favourite groups. The Pistols and the Slits are the only groups in existence from whom I should welcome live triple albums. They could easily be marketed as " the repulsive female answer to the Sex Pistols". Can't you just see the outraged mother rushing to barricade innocent girlies and laddies indoors for the night when the foul strumpets have the brazen audacity to come play in THEIR town!
"These Slits misses are Hits with Us!" sez beaming executive.

God wot guff - it won't be like that! How about " Slits slay civilization single-handed"?

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