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Article: Return of the Giant Slits
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- The Stranger
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- November 16, 2006
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Reunited Wild Women Are Still a Threat by Kurt B. Reighley
The Slits
w/Dmonstrations, Tall Birds, the Heavy Hearts
Wed Nov 22, El Corazón, 9 pm, $12, 21+.
"SOME PEOPLE THINK little girls should be seen and not heard," declared X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene on the 1977 single "Oh Bondage! Up Yours!" And when all-female punk band the Slits burst on the UK scene that same year, opening for the Clash, they scared the crap out of those people.
Singer Ari Up was just 14 when the Slits started in 1976. Three years later, she and bandmates Tessa Pollitt and Viv Albertine posed topless and slathered in mud on the cover of their 1979 debut album, Cut. Although they could barely play their ...