At last, a rare chance to see the Slits in their classic form... Venue: Crawdaddy Date: Wednesday May 3 2006 Support: Twincranes & Skinny Wolves DJ set Time: Doors 8pm Admission 20 euro Tickets available from tickets.ie, Road Records & City Discs The Slits (classic Line-up featuring Ari Up, Viv Albertine, Tessa Pollitt) featuring the Noise Mestro Adrian Sherwood (On-Usound, Tackhead) on Live Mix. "Formed in 1976, by 14-year-old Ariana Forster, the Slits were one of the most unique bands of the British punk era, combining a DIY aesthetic with dub-reggae and a very confrontational stage presence. Today their music still seems out of place, but they represent one of the most important bands of the times. Forster (stage name Ari Up), had grown up in the punk-fostering home of her mother Nora, who had once dated Jimi Hendrix, eventually married Johnny Rotten and frequently gave shelter to penniless musicians. This environment, and a love for reggae, seems to have made Ari Up and the Slits particularly open to experimentation, always straying far from the somewhat confining styles of the late-seventies punk model. Eventually the Slits hooked up with another extremely adventurous band, the Pop Group, and released a split single. Both the Slits and the Pop Group had a major effect on the coming post-punk/No Wave scene that erupted in the U.S., and then again years later, in the early 2000s, when such bands as Seattle's Glass Candy and the Shattered Theater, San Francisco's Tussle, and about 5 zillion bands in NYC and beyond - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Rapture, Oneida, Rah Bras, Erase Errata, Ex-Model, the Gossip... the list is endless, began aping their sound and commitment to the avant-garde". Rolling Stone