"I count in the first song and off we go" writes Vivienne Albertine of an early performance by the Slits. "We all play at different speeds. Ari screams as loud as she can, I thrash at my guitar, Palmolive smashes the drums the stage is so big and Tessa's so far away, I can't hear what she's doing We all play the song separately, we know we should play together, but we can't. I hope that if I remember my part, and the others remember theirs, with a bit of luck we'll end at the same time. This doesn't happen."
In retrospect, the Slits were perhaps the most subversive punk group of all: four unruly girls Ari, Tessa, Viv and Palmolive high on attitude and a shared sense of possibility so strong that their initial lack of musical ability seemed somehow unimportant. Their adventures, musical and otherwise, and their often brattishly confrontational attitude are at the heart of this searingly honest memoir by their lead guitarist, which is as much about adjusting to life after the Slits as life during the punk wars.
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