Caroline Coon
The Slits. Viv Albertine (guitar), Palmolive (drummer), Tessa Pollitt (bass) and Ari-up (lead singer) in the Post House Lobby, Cardiff, before going to the Top Rank gig on The Clash ‘White Riot’ tour., 1977
Archival Pigment Print
29.7 x 42 cms
11 3/4 x 16 1/2 ins
11 3/4 x 16 1/2 ins
11474
The Slits. Viv Albertine (guitar), Palmolive (drummer), Tessa Pollitt (bass) and Ari-up (lead singer) in the Post House Lobby, Cardiff, before going to the Top Rank gig on The Clash...
The Slits. Viv Albertine (guitar), Palmolive (drummer), Tessa Pollitt (bass) and Ari-up (lead singer) in the Post House Lobby, Cardiff, before going to the Top Rank gig on The Clash ‘White Riot’ tour. May 1977.
If male punk musicians caused horror, it was as nothing compared to how punk women musicians and their fans were judged. So appalled was the general public by the calculated way The Slits shattered approved lady-like stereotypes that they were spat at in the street. In the week before I took this photo, they had been thrown out of three hotels with only a few minutes notice.