#tessa pollitt

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The Slits at The Channel Boston 1978. Image : Michael Grecco

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girls who rock: tessa pollitt from the slits

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The Slits in 1977.

Photo by Jill Furmanovsky.

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The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

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The Slits - Instant Hit

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[generalechoes]

Monthly reggae disco in North-East London. The night is named after sadly departed MC Earl Anthony Robinson, the voice behind classic deejay tunes such as "Drunken Master".

We're kicking off 2023 in fine style by welcoming back a DJ duo containing at least one bona fide punk rock legend! "Bassie" is the pairing of Tessa Pollitt (The Slits) and Soft Wax (Deptford Dub Club). They last selected tunes for us at the much-missed Victoria in April 2019, and really looking forward to hosting them in the Trades Hall.

During her time in The Slits, Tessa provided the bassline for classics such as "Typical Girls" and "In The Beginning Their Was Rhythm", not to mention their masterful deconstruction of "(I Heard It Through The) Grapevine". Her lifelong passion for reggae started in the 1970s and she is a truly fantastic selector.

Her partner in Bassie, Soft Wax, has been putting on popular roots reggae, rocksteady and ska nights in South-East London for years, as well as promoting the much-loved Deptford Dub Club since 2014.

Come and listen to some of the greatest music ever made in a beautiful old school club.

£3 members £5 Guests and non-members

Please help the trades staff by bringing the correct money for entry.

FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1192013191403476

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"DOES THIS NEXT NOTE GO WITH THE ONE BEFORE? DOES IT EXCITE YOU? DOES IT UNSETTLE YOU?"

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on guitarist Viv Albertine of UK punk/post-punk/dub punk band THE SLITS, performing live at Alexandra Palace, London, UK, on June 15, 1980. 📸: David Corio.

"Well, we knew what we didn't want, so that's a good place to start from. We couldn't jam, so when we sort of composed, if you can call it that, we'd honestly think: "Does this next note go with the note before? Does it excite you? Does it unsettle you?" It was unpicking all your habits, lyrically and in our music. So, although we didn't know what we were doing, if any band had done what we were doing, they wouldn't have known what they were doing."

-- VIV ALBERTINE on the band's early sound, "The Guardian," "THE SLITS' Viv Albertine on punk, violence, and doomed domesticity," published June 2014

Sources: www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/01/the-slits-viv-albertine-punk-violence-domesticity, Getty Images, Pinterest, Reddit, various, etc...

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[punkrockhistory]

A tribute to punk ladies feat: Jordan,Siouxsie Sioux, Chrissie Hynde,Poly Styrene,Soo Catwoman,Ari Up,Viv Albertine,Tessa Pollitt,The Raincoats,Gaye Advert, Vivienne Westwood,Nina Hagen,Debbie Juvenile & Wendy O Williams.

Audio is a Peel Sessions of The Slits

#punkrockhistory

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Here To Be Heard: The Story Of The Slits (2017)

The hitherto overlooked story of one of British music’s most influential and game-changing bands. A riveting film about the world’s first all-girl punk band, who formed in London in 1976. Contemporaries of The Clash and The Sex Pistols,

The Slits are the pioneering godmothers of punk. Fronted by the irrepressible and iconoclastic Ari Up, the band has inspired generations of artists, from Sonic Youth to Sleater Kinney. They also defined a musical movement known as ‘Punky Reggae’, which saw outsider tribes of punks and Rastafari come together.

Drawing on stunning personal archives and including interviews with key surviving band members Tessa Pollitt, Viv Albertine and original drummer Paloma McLardy (aka Palmolive), Here to be Heard tells the story of a group that literally changed the cultural landscape of Britain in the patriarchal 1970s with their furious feminist battle cry.

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#GreatWomenOfRock The Slits: founded in 1976 by Ari Up and Palmolive with Viv Albertine, Tessa Pollitt and Budgie completing the lineup for their 1979 debut, ‘Cut’. Often angry, always confrontational, Ari Up redefined what women could do in rock. #TheSlits #AriUp #RockHonorRoll 3/13

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Guitarist Viv Altertine, vocalist Ari Up, drummer Budgie and bassist Tessa Pollitt of British punk band The Slits perform on stage at The Channel in Boston, Massachusetts on November 14, 1980.

Guitarist Viv Altertine, vocalist Ari Up, drummer Budgie and bassist Tessa Pollitt of British punk band The Slits perform on stage at The Channel in Boston, Massachusetts on November 14, 1980.

Guitarist Viv Altertine, vocalist Ari Up, drummer Budgie and bassist Tessa Pollitt of British punk band The Slits perform on stage at The Channel in Boston, Massachusetts on November 14, 1980.

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The Slits - I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1979) Norman Whitfield / Barrett Strong from: “Typical Girls” / “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”

Dub-Punk | Post-Punk

The Miracles | Marvin Gaye | Gladys Knight and The Pips Cover

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Personnel: Ari Up: Vocals Viv Albertine: Guitar Tessa Pollitt: Bass Max "Maxi" Edwards: Drums

Dennis Bovell: Sound Effects

Produced by The Slits / Rema / Stuart Henderson

Recorded: @ Basing Street Studios in London, England UK during 1979

Released: on September 14, 1979

Island Records (UK) Antilles Records (US)