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Viv Albertine talks to Dylan Jones

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys

Hay Festival 2014, 

After forming The Flowers of Romance with Sid Vicious in 1976, Viv joined The Slits and made musical history as one of the first generation of punk bands. Here is the story of what it was like to be a girl at the height of punk: the sex, the drugs, the guys, the tours, the hard lessons learnt and those not considered.