Viv Albertine

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Viviane Katrina Louise Albertine (born December 1, 1954 in Sydney , New South Wales ) is an English musician, singer-songwriter , author and director. From 1977 to 1981 she played guitar in the British punk band The Slits .

Life

Viv Albertine was born in Australia to a Swiss woman and a Corsican and came to London at the age of four. She attended Muswell Hill Comprehensive School . In 1971 she enrolled at Hornsey College of Art and after completing the foundation course, she moved to Chelsea College of Art and Design . There she studied fashion design and was influenced by Vivienne Westwood and Yoko Ono . She met Sid Vicious know and formed with him and Keith Levene the band The Flowers of Romance . Viv Albertine was part of the early London punk scene around the Sex Pistols and The Clash . In 1977 she joined the women's punk band The Slits as a guitarist . Until the band split up in 1981, they recorded two studio albums.

In the 1990s, Viv Albertine studied film production at Goldsmiths College , directed five episodes of the English television series The Tomorrow People and produced her own short film Coping with Cupid . In 2012 she released her first solo album, The Vermilion Border . Viv Albertine's biography Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, music, music. Boys, Boys, Boys was published in 2014, translated into German by Conny Lösch and published in 2016 under the title A Typical Girl .

Works

Discography

  • 1979: The Slits: Cut
  • 1980: The Slits: Typical Girls Live in Cincinnati & San Francisco USA
  • 1981: The Slits: Return of the Giant Slits
  • 2012: Viv Albertine: The Vermilion Border

Books

  • Viv Albertine: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, music, music. Boys, Boys, Boys: A Memoir. Thomas Dunne Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1-25006-599-5 .
  • Viv Albertine, Conny Lösch: A Typical Girl. A memoir. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-51846-675-9 .
  • Viv Albertine: To Throw Away Unopened. Faber & Faber, 2018, ISBN 978-0-571-32621-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanspeter Künzler: The simple dogmas of liberation. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 26, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Kerstin Grether : Punk pioneer Viv Albertine: Every safety pin is a stab against the cliché. Der Spiegel , May 10, 2016, accessed on August 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Carolin Haentjes: Viv Albertine and her autobiography: Hammer, Household, Rebellion. Der Tagesspiegel , May 26, 2016, accessed on August 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Viva Viv Albertine (An Interview with Viv Albertine). For Malcontents Only, August 4, 2014, accessed August 18, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Viv Albertine - The Vermilion Border. Discogs , accessed August 18, 2016 .
  6. ^ Nicholas Lezard: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, music, music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine review - more than a punk memoir. The Guardian , May 10, 2016, accessed August 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Albertine, Viv
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albertine, Viviane Katrina Louise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English musician, singer-songwriter, writer and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , New South Wales