The Slits- Cut (1979)

Girl Power? I'll show you Girl Power, sonny...
Cracking cover picture from Pennie Smith. No sign of Budgie there though, is there? The record is just as invigorating. Fractured funky dub sound created out of chaos by the masterful Dennis Bovell.
Ari Up - vocals
Viv Albertine - guitar
Tessa Pollitt - bass guitar
Budgie - drums
Dennis Bovell - sound effects

 We’re just not interested in questions about Women’s Liberation… You either think chauvinism’s shit or you don’t. We think it’s shit… Girls shouldn’t hang around with people who give them aggro about what they want to do. If they do they’re idiots... Viv Albertine, June 1977

 Ari Up, quoted in Typical Girls?: The Story of the Slits
 by Zoe Street Howe

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The Slits- Peel Session -19th September 1977.

Mark Perry writing in And God Created Punk :
The Slits were loud brash bold and unrepentant... they never compromised their image or stance...they must have inspired loads of women to pick up a guitar and form a band....they were pure punk driven by female power...they shocked a lot of people, both on and off stage. They were dangerous, and their very presence threatened those that considered rock to be a male-only pursuit.


As a boy I was in awe of The Slits. There was definitely something scary about them. Of course, as a fourteen year old I thought that the cover of their LP Cut was absolutely brilliant. To tell you the truth I still 'appreciate the aesthetics of it' now. And it was a great record to boot.
This is the first session that the ladies recorded for John Peel. It was transmitted on 19th September 1977 and featured the original line up of:

Ari Up -vocals
Tessa - bass, backing vocals
Viv Albertine -guitar, backing vocals
Palmolive -drums, backing vocals