Life before and after The Slits

When I was about 12 years old my older sister put me on to The Slits. She had a wealth of homemade mix tapes of British and riot grrrl punk bands, hand decorated with sparkles and magazine cut outs. They amazed me, and soon I started to make my own tapes from mail order 7-inch records and demos I picked up at concerts or personal distros. The experience was mutating, looking back on my teen hood I remember my life in two stages: before, and after punk. I’m not the only one; The Slits influenced a bevy of 90’s female punk bands as well, which I’ll elaborate on in posts to come. Members of the band went on to form more well know groups like, The Raincoats and Siouxsie & The Banshees, which both became personal favorites in the years that proceeded my initial introduction.

Check out the video to one of my all-time favorite songs Typical Girls from the album Cut (1979).