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Welcome to Late Night Woman's Hour with me, Lauren Levern recorded live at the Free Thinking Festival.

My guest this month is no stranger to performing live as a member of the Slits.

Viv Albertine joined forces with bandmates Ariup, Palmolive and Tessa Pollitt,

and made one of the most influential albums of all time,

Cot, a pioneering fusion of punk, dub and feminism.

The band's impact was huge, though the slits were together for just a few years.

Albertine went on to be a filmmaker and spent time away from work raising her daughter

before a solo album, 2012's The Vermillion Border, an acclaimed memoir, clothes, clothes, clothes,

music, music, music, boys, boys, and a starring role in Joanna Hogg's 2013 film exhibition,

which also her re-emerge as a cultural force to be reckoned with. Welcome, Viv. Thank you very much

for joining me. How are you? Very good, thank you. Yeah.

It's great to be up here on stage with you. I know that you said you never get stage fright.

No, not anymore. Really? Did you in the early days?

I did, yeah, because we were going on stage in front of hundreds of people and I couldn't play.

Quickens the blood, Dad, doesn't it?

Everything shot through me very fast

and yes I was terrified going on then

and also not only could I not play

no one else in the bank could play either

so we all used to start at the same time

and just hope we finish at the same time

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