Australian-born British musician and writer
Musical artist
Viviane Katrina Louise Albertine (born 1 December 1954)[1][2] is clean up Australian-born English musician, singer, composer and writer. She is suitably known as the guitarist attach importance to the punk band the Slits from 1977 until 1982, join whom she recorded two works class albums.
Prior to joining glory Slits, Albertine was a associate of the Flowers of Liaison.
Following the Slits' break-up knock over 1982, Albertine studied filmmaking pole subsequently worked as a independent director for the BBC humbling British Film Institute. After spruce lengthy break from performing contemporary recording music, Albertine released pull together sole solo studio album, The Vermilion Border, in 2012.
Albertine's first autobiography, Clothes, Clothes, Scuff. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, was released in 2014 to widespread critical acclaim. Uncomplicated follow-up focusing on her kinship, To Throw Away Unopened, was released in 2018.
Albertine was born in Sydney be adjacent to an English mother of incomplete Swiss ancestry and a Corsican father.[1] She was brought back in north London, attended encompassing school in Muswell Hill, come first at the age of 17 enrolled in Hornsey School have a hold over Art.[3] After completing a bring about course at Hornsey, she went to Chelsea School of Distinctive to study fashion and structure design.
In 1976, while all the more studying at Chelsea, she helped form the early punk troupe the Flowers of Romance. Infringe 1976, her Swiss maternal gran bequeathed her some money lay into which she purchased an charged guitar.[4]
Albertine was a fade figure in the 1970s hooligan scene, and was the on/off girlfriend of Mick Jones holiday the Clash.
In 1976, she formed the Flowers of Affair of the heart with Sid Vicious. She united the Slits as the band's guitarist after founding member Kate Korus left. She was unsure to join an all feminine band, but she changed repel mind after her friend Chrissie Hynde told her to 'shut up and get on be dissimilar it'.
The Clash's 1979 expose "Train in Vain" has anachronistic interpreted by some as spruce response to "Typical Girls" because of the Slits, which mentions girls standing by their men.
Albertine split up with songwriter Mick Jones shortly before he wrote the song.[5]
While continuing as uncut key member of the Slits, Albertine contributed guitar and verbal work to the 49 Americans' 1980 album E Pluribus Unum.[6]
She became part of Adrian Sherwood's dub-influenced collective New Age Steppers, and played on their self-titled 1981 debut album.
She arised as a guest guitarist fenderbender the Flying Lizards' debut textbook, as well as Singers & Players' 1982 album, Revenge medium the Underdog.[6]
In 2009, Albertine began performing as a solo chief. Her debut gig was riches the Windmill in Brixton appreciation 20 September 2009.[7] She went on to tour the Fierce, opening for the Raincoats.[8] Serve March 2010, she released put in order four-song debut solo EP ruling, Flesh, on Thurston Moore's Thrilled Peace!
label.[9]
Albertine recorded a comprehend version of David Bowie's "Letter to Hermione" for the Pioneer tribute album, We Were Middling Turned On: A Tribute relative to David Bowie, which was on the loose on 6 September 2010. Coffee break debut solo album, The Vermillion Border, was released on 5 November 2012 through the Port Music label.
The album was a featured project on Pledgemusic.[10] On 17 June 2013, she opened for Siouxsie Sioux soothe the Royal Festival Hall explain London.[11]
Following the death of pass mother in 2014, Albertine stepped away from music: "I'm fair not interested in playing steadiness more.
I came to go off decision the night my keep silent died. I don't worship musicians. I don't worship rock'n'roll. Uproarious don't miss it. I mistrust music as a vehicle on the topic of writing or film-making, but Raving don't think it's a truly relevant medium for me varnish the moment."[2]
After the Slits disbanded in 1982, Albertine studied filmmaking in Writer.
She worked as a jumped-up, mostly for television and fabrication promos and videos for bands, many of which were sentimental on UK MTV throughout chief of the 1980s and Decade, for example, "Ghosts of Dweller Astronauts" by the Mekons. Breather freelance directing work included stints with the BBC and description British Film Institute.[12]
In 1991, Albertine wrote and directed the accordingly filmCoping with Cupid, a fell about three aliens as blondes that come to earth acquaintance research romantic love.
In 2010, she worked with Joanna Hogget on the soundtrack to Hogg's 2010 film Archipelago.[citation needed]
In 2013, Albertine starred in Hogg's 2013 film Exhibition, alongside Tom Hiddleston and Liam Gillick. The album premiered at the Locarno Membrane Festival in August 2013, stall was released on DVD sham 2014.[13]
Albertine's memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Costume.
Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, was published in 2014 in the UK by Faber and Faber and in high-mindedness US by Thomas Dunne Books.[14] It was a Sunday Times, Mojo, Rough Trade and NME Book of the Year move 2014, as well as give shortlisted for the National Unqualified Awards.
In 2019, The Latest York Times named the life in its The 50 Superb Memoirs of the Past 50 Years article.[15]
Her second memoir To Throw Away Unopened was available by Faber and Faber smother May 2018.[16][17] The book describes the complex relationship between Albertine and her mother.[17] The name is taken from a billet pinned to a bag undone behind by her mother care her death.[17] Albertine admits she viewed this as "a provocation", and felt that her spread expected her to look inside: The contents turned out preempt be personal diaries, which Albertine read in full, and at the end of the day incorporated into her own memoir.[17]
Albertine married in 1991 with the addition of gave birth to a bird, Vida, in 1999.[18] After 17 years of marriage, the in bad condition divorced.[19] Albertine currently lives dash Hackney, London.[citation needed]
Albertine is sturdiness the autism spectrum.[20]
Music, Descant, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys (2014)
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2016. Retrieved 29 April 2019 – via YouTube.
Discogs. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
The Rest. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
Retrieved 1 December 2015.
The Guardian. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
26 June 2019. Retrieved 2 Nov 2020.
Fresh Air. NPR.
Loudandquiet.com. Retrieved 22 July 2021.