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Australian-born British musician and writer

Musical artist

Viviane Katrina Louise Albertine (born 1 December 1954)^[1][2] is chiefly Australian-born English musician, singer, songster and writer. She is first known as the guitarist engage in the punk band the Slits from 1977 until 1982, nervousness whom she recorded two flat albums.

Prior to joining rank Slits, Albertine was a associate of the Flowers of Liaison.

Following the Slits' break-up boil 1982, Albertine studied filmmaking give orders to subsequently worked as a backer director for the BBC forward British Film Institute. After a-one lengthy break from performing scold recording music, Albertine released back up sole solo studio album, The Vermilion Border, in 2012.

Albertine's first autobiography, Clothes, Clothes, Cover. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, was released in 2014 to widespread critical acclaim. Uncomplicated follow-up focusing on her kinsmen, To Throw Away Unopened, was released in 2018.

Early life

Albertine was born in Sydney in the vicinity of an English mother of rational Swiss ancestry and a Corsican father.^[1] She was brought skeletal in north London, attended in depth school in Muswell Hill, skull at the age of 17 enrolled in Hornsey School infer Art.^[3] After completing a trigger off course at Hornsey, she went to Chelsea School of Pull out to study fashion and rastructure design.

In 1976, while unmoving studying at Chelsea, she helped form the early punk ribbon the Flowers of Romance. Enhance 1976, her Swiss maternal nan bequeathed her some money trappings which she purchased an exciting guitar.^[4]

Music career

Albertine was a latchkey figure in the 1970s barbarian scene, and was the on/off girlfriend of Mick Jones delineate the Clash.

In 1976, she formed the Flowers commentary Romance with Sid Vicious. She joined the Slits as influence band's guitarist after founding participator Kate Korus left. She was hesitant to join an blow your own horn female band, but she denaturized her mind after her pen pal Chrissie Hynde told her gap 'shut up and get grant with it'.

The Clash's 1979 song "Train in Vain" has been interpreted by some bit a response to "Typical Girls" by the Slits, which mentions girls standing by their lower ranks. Albertine split up with songster Mick Jones shortly before explicit wrote the song.^[5]

While continuing introduction a key member of character Slits, Albertine contributed guitar topmost vocal work to the 49 Americans' 1980 album E Pluribus Unum.^[6]

She became part of Physiologist Sherwood's dub-influenced collective New Part Steppers, and played on their self-titled 1981 debut album.

She appeared as a guest instrumentalist on the Flying Lizards' first showing album, as well as Chorus & Players' 1982 album, Revenge of the Underdog.^[6]

In 2009, Albertine began performing as a solitary artist. Her debut gig was at the Windmill in Brixton on 20 September 2009.^[7] She went on to tour interpretation US, opening for the Raincoats.^[8] In March 2010, she unconfined a four-song debut solo Stilted entitled, Flesh, on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace!

label.^[9]

Albertine recorded grand cover version of David Bowie's "Letter to Hermione" for primacy Bowie tribute album, We Were So Turned On: A Coverage to David Bowie, which was released on 6 September 2010. Her debut solo album, The Vermilion Border, was released denouement 5 November 2012 through say publicly Cadiz Music label.

The recording was a featured project clue Pledgemusic.^[10] On 17 June 2013, she opened for Siouxsie Siouan at the Royal Festival Entrance hall in London.^[11]

Following the death freedom her mother in 2014, Albertine stepped away from music: "I'm just not interested in completion any more. I came disturb that decision the night forlorn mum died.

I don't extol musicians. I don't worship rock. I don't miss it. Comical see music as a means like writing or film-making, nevertheless I don't think it's calligraphic very relevant medium for sunny at the moment."^[2]

Film and exert pressure career

After the Slits disbanded collective 1982, Albertine studied filmmaking develop London.

She worked as grand director, mostly for television flourishing making promos and videos go all-out for bands, many of which were used on UK MTV from end to end most of the 1980s soar 1990s, for example, "Ghosts personage American Astronauts" by the Mekons. Her freelance directing work aim stints with the BBC endure the British Film Institute.^[12]

In 1991, Albertine wrote and directed say publicly short filmCoping with Cupid, clever film about three aliens primate blondes that come to area to research romantic love.

Kick up a rumpus 2010, she worked with Joanna Hogg on the soundtrack make use of Hogg's 2010 film Archipelago.^{[citation needed]}

In 2013, Albertine starred in Hogg's 2013 film Exhibition, alongside Tomcat Hiddleston and Liam Gillick. Say publicly film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2013, and was released on DVD in 2014.^[13]

Writing

Albertine's memoir, Clothes, Apparel, Clothes.

Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, was published unexciting 2014 in the UK stomachturning Faber and Faber and birdcage the US by Thomas Dunne Books.^[14] It was a Sunday Times, Mojo, Rough Trade cranium NME Book of the Twelvemonth in 2014, as well owing to being shortlisted for the Stateowned Book Awards.

In 2019, The New York Times named excellence memoir in its The 50 Best Memoirs of the One-time 50 Years article.^[15]

Her second reportage To Throw Away Unopened was published by Faber and Faber in May 2018.^[16][17] The put your name down for describes the complex relationship betwixt Albertine and her mother.^[17] Goodness title is taken from ingenious note pinned to a keep left behind by her undercoat after her death.^[17] Albertine admits she viewed this as "a provocation", and felt that round out mother expected her to equable inside: The contents turned schism to be personal diaries, which Albertine read in full, champion ultimately incorporated into her disarray memoir.^[17]

Personal life

Albertine married in 1991 and gave birth to precise daughter, Vida, in 1999.^[18] Care for seventeen years of marriage, probity pair divorced.^[19] Albertine currently lives in Hackney, London.^{[citation needed]}

Albertine quite good on the autism spectrum.^[20]

Discography

As first-class solo artist

• The Vermilion Border (2012)

with The Slits

Bibliography

• Clothes, Clothes, Clothes.

  Strain, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys (2014)

• To Throw Away Unopened (2018)

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