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‘People didn’t know whether to fuck us or kill us’

June 2, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

[The Slits] also attracted an astonishing level of violence.

Every old punk likes to tell war stories about how dangerous it was to walk the streets dressed like that, but Albertine’s are genuinely shocking: the Slits’ 15-year-old singer, Ari Up, was stabbed on the street twice by strangers in the space of a year.

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