The Slits - Barcelona, Spain 2010

This is The Slits performing on the Pitchfork Stage at the 2010 Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona Spain. The line up was Ari Up (vocals), Tessa Pollitt (bass), drummer Anna Schulte, American singer Michelle Hill, and guitarist Hollie Cook (daughter of Sex Pistol Paul Cook).

The quartet was originally formed in 1976 by members of the bands The Flowers of Romance and The Castrators. The group supported fellow punk band The Clash on their 1977 White Riot tour along with the Buzzcocks and the Subway Sect. Club performances of The Slits during this period are included in The Punk Rock Movie (1978). In November 1978, The Slits toured with the Clash again on the "Sort it Out Tour" and were joined by The Innocents who opened the show.

Ari Up and Tessa Pollitt reformed the band with new members in 2005, and in 2006 released the EP Revenge of the Killer Slits. The EP featured former Sex Pistols member Paul Cook and Marco Pirroni (ex-Adam and the Ants, and Siouxsie and the Banshees) as both musicians and co-producers. In fact, Cook's daughter Hollie is a member of the current line-up, singing and playing keyboards. Other members of the reformed band were No (of The Home Office) on guitar, German drummer Anna Schulte, and Adele Wilson on guitar. The band toured the United States for the first time in twenty-five years during 2006's 'States of Mind' tour. In 2007, they toured Australia as well as returning to the US, where they opened for Sonic Youth at New York's McCarren Park Pool. In their first ever visit to that country, the band undertook a short tour of Japan in October 2007.

In 2008, the band again toured America. Adele Wilson left the band and No was replaced by the American guitarist, Michelle Hill. In November 2008, the band played Ladyfest in Manchester, and visited London Astoria the following month. In January 2009 The Slits' MySpace page listed former guitarist Viv Albertine as one of the groups current members, however Albertine's own MySpace blog states that she only rejoined to play two shows.

In January 2009, the Los Angeles based Narnack Records announced they had signed the band to a recording contract. A biography - Typical Girls? The Story Of The Slits by Zoe Street Howe was published in the UK by Omnibus Press in July 2009.

A full-length album entitled Trapped Animal was released in 2009, and the band continued to perform live. This was one of the last concerts recorded before the sad passing of Ari Up. This wonderful performance reminds me of just how energetic and natural The Slits always sounded, a must have for pretty much every punk, dub or reggae fan.

Source: Soundboard.

Sound Quality: Very good stereo mp3@256kbps.

Genre: Dub, punk, reggae.

Set: Full set.

Set List:

1. Ari Intro's
2. Grown Ups
3. Typical Girls
4. Shoplifting
5. Reject
6. Fade Away
7. FM
8. Heard It Through The Grapevine
9. Lazy Slam
10. Partner From Hell
11. Lets Do The Split
12. Babylon

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