Viv Albertine: ‘I just want to blow a hole in it all’

Viv Albertine’s new memoir is a chronicle of outsiderness that goes beyond her years in the Slits to explore class and gender, her parents and sibling rivalry, and why she’s done with menOn 4 April 1966, when Viv Albertine was 11 years old, her father, Lucien, wrote the following entry in his diary: “When Viviane went out this afternoon with a friend she dolled herself up with scent and lipstick… I said she was much too young. She was shocked when I tried to advise her...

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