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The Slits: Cutting Edge

Paul Morley, Uncut, February 2001

I AM A LITTLE nervous as I approach Viv Albertine's house. She was a Slit. For anybody of a certain age who has a penis and saw the group play live during the deep punk years of '76 and '77, you know never to approach a Slit lightly.

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