I wish I’d told my mother that, in all the years I knew her, she was never once boring. We weren’t demonstrative, so that would have meant that I loved her.
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Viv Albertine
Australian-born British musician and writer
United Kingdom · b. 1955
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Born in Australia, Viv Albertine, 65, was guitarist and songwriter in the all-female punk band the Slits from 1977 to 1982. She went on to become a film and TV director. In 2012, she released a solo album, and in 2014 and 2018 published memoirs that are being adapted for TV. She has a daughter, is divorced and lives in London.
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I am going straight to cremation like David Bowie, so there would be no funeral.
I had no female role models growing up. I lived an incredibly sheltered life: there was no TV at home and we had no visitors. It wasn’t until rock and pop came into my life that I concocted myself as a role model.
It’s like digging a field together: it’s hard work, not very glamorous, but you can stand back and think, “We did that.”
The moment my daughter was born in 1999, because it took me seven years to conceive.
Romantic love – what a con. (I do still believe in it.)
In my first job in film, a giant bloke dressed like a sumo wrestler asked me to get his G-string out of his arse. He said he couldn’t reach it.
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