The joy of this performance gets me every time. Ari being so magnetic with her improv antics it's easy not to notice how tight this band really were, especially Tessa Pollitt who is a criminally underrated player. Love this band so much.
Funniest point is that Ari started talking to a Berlin crowd in a Bavarian accent and nobody expected her to speak German at all (since most people sure didn't know she was German before they went to that show). She kind of went back to regular German during her speech but you can still tell that it sounds hilarious for a Berlin based German!
Ari said "I'm gonna do my own thing and I don't care what you think. I am not here to be loved, I am here to be heard". I love the Slits, girls not giving a f*ck is revolutionary.
Fully agree , and I'm wondering if she was taken out , she was that much of a free soul in this trapped environment. I can't remember how she passed ? Or how she supposedly passed. Dodgy fucks in her family.
I like that message. It's about being true to yourself. Kids nowadays should look at artists and people grom the 60s and 70s. The world is a total shithole where everybody's following celebs like The Kardashian. I have nothing againt them, they're great business people and seems like a caring family. However life's more than makeup and expensive clothes. Kids nowadays just care about looks and are extremely materialistic! Teenage girls with jackets the same price as my rent!! WTF is happening to this society??
The Slits were so ahead of their time free thinkers!! Tessa Pollitt was a phenomenal bass player.Viv Albertine was amazing too together their energy was so powerful ,you can still feel it! Ari was a free spirit totally unbridled present and fun and engaging .Met her after she had her twins fantastic spirit,gorgeous and vibrant.The Slits forever
ari is my favorite punk singer EVER and i just found out that she died and i felt like i lost a huge part of my influeces. i am also a musican and cut is the best album ever that formed the type of music i do today, so naturally i always wanted to meet her, but now i cant, so all i, and we can do is carry on her legacy.
It seems many misunderstand the punk ethos entirely. It’s nothing to do with dressing in leathers, having black spikey hair and shouting. Watch any John Lyndon interview. Punk is about individuality. This is punk.
Well said. Fitting into a box like all the others whether it be sound or clothing is exactly what the movement didn't want. That's one the reasons it broke off into so many sounds. Once you saw yourself coming and going down the street it's over. It really parallels clothing trends its hot when nobody else has it. One day the corporate morons will get that Case in point Supreme owner sold it off for a ton of cash. It was made more accessible and now the hype is gone and that big company is left with undesirable brand. Next you see it in target l lol
Punk isn't so much of a particular "sound" as an attitude. A DIY approach to music and art and life. A way of taking back musical and artistic expression and putting back into the hands of any average Joe who wanted to try. That you didn't have to be a "trained" musician to be one - that you didn't need a record contract in order make music and have it heard. With punk, there are many genres within the genres. The only real requirement I guess, is that you do it your way.
@@sharptongue1 I don't get it, the drummer and bassist are obviously very skilled musicians. Rock bands prior to punk werent getting taught at monasteries or academies or universities or anything
There's been no-one like the Slits, before or since. I'm so glad someone captured them at their best (and put it up here). Live, Tessa's bass just filled the venue - HUGE - sadly a video can't capture everything.
i got to see 'em around that time---Ari was wearing the same outfit! Viv Albertine has written some books about that time; another memory i have is that it was really hard to want to look at any of the other band members because Ari had so much charisma.
What a fantastic clip of the iconic Slits! R.I.P. ARI. The Slits would be a great band to have at Glasto, can you imagine how brilliantly anarchic they would be?! Ah well...! Glad I had chance to see them at Roxy!
It's really fascinating how different we are. Just our hearing! To you this is awesome. To me this is awful. If I were forced to listen to this I'd go mental. Isn't that really intriguing to think about that our hearings are that different? Btw, I'm not one of those trolls who seek up videos to talk shit. I was recommended The Slits because I LOVE punk! So I thought I'd check them out. I thought they were like Hole, just more pure punk. So far not my cup of tea. But I like people who go they're own way, in that regards they're cool.
for anyone wondering what ari said: "I just wanted to say I'm a woman but that doesn't mean that I want to be like a man. That's why we wear those dresses. We are women and we don't need to say we are a women-movement because that's just to assure ourselves that we really are women but we now that from the beginning, that won't hurt us(ari didn'T make sense here sry)The men are the men, then let 'em be. I mean, damn (interjection->"are you on your period?")*laughing*anyways many women say we can do everything a man can do. no i can't, i can't i'm just a woman and i can only do what women can do, yeah?so you finally get it one, two, three ..."
Music should be fun and entertaining the slits put on a show just by being themselves you can take it or leave it! I just bought my first Slits CD something we can learn today be original...
@@robertlane1197 In some respects what you say is true ..but paradoxically there were more individuals and real characters furrowing their own path.back then .now people are scared to fart in case it gets deemed as not policitally correct or put down as hate crime..where are all the creative thjnkers.. musicians now everything is homogenized Um not saying they are not out there ..but a wider audience will not get a chance to hear ..see them ..no chance ..
I think this is very creative--they really evolved over the years. It takes a little while to get into it. The lead singer is amazing--as a performer, not really a singer.
These Rootikall and Cultural sounds are inspired by H.I.M. Emperor Haile i Selassie I .....respect to Ari Up for transferring the message in that beautifull way...
There's A guy in my Nieghborhood (weird Music break) I love the slits.RIP ARI UP I need a bass-playing fender-precision girlfriend, who wears dreadlocks (or not) I need one now.
@Khultan i was only speaking about his influence on punk music. Dunno about the "aestethic value od Hip Hop" being "recognized" by him: Im not trashing him, and your comment just helps me make my point. He was mainly into aesthetics than in music, thats my humble opinion, and as ive seen in many interviews, thats even how the Pistols depict him as a greedy person being more interested in pushing his beloved Sid on the grounds of him "looking good"... opinions on him may have changed btw
@Khultan thx for the info ill look up that! ... i was judging his influence in punk -which many see as awful, even the Pistols hated him telling them to stick Vicious in their band or how to dress. They mostly refer Vicious as a "human coat hanger" imposed by McLaren. I like the pistols too, just pointing out that the clothing was another mean to disturb common ppl (just like Siouxsie wore swastikas... shes no nazi!) not "PUNK" as its not to be reduced imho to clothing or hair-do
For my peer group (16 in 1981) we took German, the same way we would later take Russian, and the kids after us took Japanese...all for the same reason: German, like the successive fads, was as remote from our American experience as the fabled Dyson Spheres of other worlds...
Too bad your understanding of Americans is so limited, but I 'm sure it simplifies things to not have to consider reality, and it is always satisfying to believe that you are better than a large group of people.I'm sure Ari would approve.
david, not stated well by me i guess. i am american and i can tell you virtually no 1 in america had the chance to experience ari. hope that explains my post.
...¡Not exactly! I also thought I had found the original version of Massive Attack cover when I listened to Dr.Alimantado's song... but that was a cover of an older version of Horace Andy's "Quiet Place", wich also comes from the original song "I've got to get away" by John Holt & The Paragons. One song, 3 different names, many many covers ;)
In the end I think it really had very little to do with how "good" there musuc actually was. They were about pushing boundaries, innovating and being inspired by the many genres going in at the time. It one of the documentaries they said the clubs they hung at reggae/dub so naturally it became part of their sound. The Clash really pushed the genre mash up even further.
Raincoats ? Bellestars where alright too, for mainstream. Poison girls. Persons Unknown... what a track ! Penis envy by Crass , with Eve Libertine. Great album.
The joy of this performance gets me every time. Ari being so magnetic with her improv antics it's easy not to notice how tight this band really were, especially Tessa Pollitt who is a criminally underrated player. Love this band so much.
Funniest point is that Ari started talking to a Berlin crowd in a Bavarian accent and nobody expected her to speak German at all (since most people sure didn't know she was German before they went to that show). She kind of went back to regular German during her speech but you can still tell that it sounds hilarious for a Berlin based German!
Ari said "I'm gonna do my own thing and I don't care what you think. I am not here to be loved, I am here to be heard". I love the Slits, girls not giving a f*ck is revolutionary.
Vicky Rose...and once they don't give a fuck, then giving a fuck will be revolutionary.
...kids, just stupid kids looking for attention.
Fully agree , and I'm wondering if she was taken out , she was that much of a free soul in this trapped environment. I can't remember how she passed ? Or how she supposedly passed. Dodgy fucks in her family.
Tit !
I like that message.
It's about being true to yourself.
Kids nowadays should look at artists and people grom the 60s and 70s. The world is a total shithole where everybody's following celebs like The Kardashian.
I have nothing againt them, they're great business people and seems like a caring family.
However life's more than makeup and expensive clothes. Kids nowadays just care about looks and are extremely materialistic!
Teenage girls with jackets the same price as my rent!!
WTF is happening to this society??
@@carmelitaolsen5672 A darkness has been let loose on the world, we are now seeing the full fruits of it.
The Slits were so ahead of their time free thinkers!! Tessa Pollitt was a phenomenal bass player.Viv Albertine was amazing too together their energy was so powerful ,you can still feel it! Ari was a free spirit totally unbridled present and fun and engaging .Met her after she had her twins fantastic spirit,gorgeous and vibrant.The Slits forever
Ahead of what time? They sucked then and they suck now.
I can't think of any group more "of their time" that The Slits.
Love them or hate them but you can't ignore them.
Bruce Smith - fantastic on the drums. Gotta love the Slits !!!
Viv Albertine has been my musician crush and guitar goddess for near 25 years now. Didn’t know this footage was on here. So good!
ari is my favorite punk singer EVER and i just found out that she died and i felt like i lost a huge part of my influeces. i am also a musican and cut is the best album ever that formed the type of music i do today, so naturally i always wanted to meet her, but now i cant, so all i, and we can do is carry on her legacy.
This is tremendous!!!!! *** And I love Neneh Cherry on stage and backing vocals. What a truly inspiring band
So cool that Neneh Cherry is in this too! Long live The Slits! Women doing it their way!
What's a woman?
@@prpwnage9296 Your mum
👍 Agreed, Amazing Band Trailblazers for Women
Ari was as good a singer as she was a mother............
yes, they were doing it their way and they were dull as Hell
I freaking love this band. So original. And the fact Neneh Cherry was a part of it is awesome too. Rest in peace Ari❤
so great to have this footage so we can relive 81 with the slits!
What an astonishing performance from someone so young!
RIP Ari... the world has lost a unique voice.
wish the volume was louder on this. love it!
60+ and I still feel like I want to bang on that door and shout "What the f@#$! Can you turn the music UP."
this is just so dandy. Legends in light. about time, tks alot
THe Slits Are the Best Band on the planet EArth RIP ARI UP you beautiful lady
Eine wunderbare Erinnerung an das Berlin der 80ger Jahre und das damalige Tempodrom. Thank you!
Truly Brilliant.
I regret the fact that im just hearing the slits 😢😮❤
Wahnsinn, das hätte ich gern live erlebt!
It seems many misunderstand the punk ethos entirely. It’s nothing to do with dressing in leathers, having black spikey hair and shouting. Watch any John Lyndon interview. Punk is about individuality. This is punk.
True!
Actually it is about being born rich and saying fuck you to the workers.
Who said it wasn’t ?
@@coventrypunx1014he's talking about what punk became with all the goofy dresses and spikey hair that's when punk lost its touch and meaning.
Well said. Fitting into a box like all the others whether it be sound or clothing is exactly what the movement didn't want. That's one the reasons it broke off into so many sounds. Once you saw yourself coming and going down the street it's over. It really parallels clothing trends its hot when nobody else has it. One day the corporate morons will get that Case in point Supreme owner sold it off for a ton of cash. It was made more accessible and now the hype is gone and that big company is left with undesirable brand. Next you see it in target l lol
Great stuff!
thanks for posting this crystal clear sound and vision of music and love
love the slits punk and reggae sound
Is this punk??
I can't hear nothing close to punk anywhere.
Punk isn't so much of a particular "sound" as an attitude. A DIY approach to music and art and life. A way of taking back musical and artistic expression and putting back into the hands of any average Joe who wanted to try. That you didn't have to be a "trained" musician to be one - that you didn't need a record contract in order make music and have it heard. With punk, there are many genres within the genres. The only real requirement I guess, is that you do it your way.
yeah, right. back to da roots. nice n simple, a lot of power & no need for 20 trailer trucks of gear. one chew free far let´s go
Postpunk
@@sharptongue1 I don't get it, the drummer and bassist are obviously very skilled musicians. Rock bands prior to punk werent getting taught at monasteries or academies or universities or anything
The Slits in all their glory. Love them. Man Next Door. A special song for personal reasons.
There's been no-one like the Slits, before or since. I'm so glad someone captured them at their best (and put it up here). Live, Tessa's bass just filled the venue - HUGE - sadly a video can't capture everything.
i got to see 'em around that time---Ari was wearing the same outfit!
Viv Albertine has written some books about that time; another memory i have is that it was really hard to want to look at any of the other band members because Ari had so much charisma.
What a fantastic clip of the iconic Slits! R.I.P. ARI. The Slits would be a great band to have at Glasto, can you imagine how brilliantly anarchic they would be?! Ah well...! Glad I had chance to see them at Roxy!
Bob MARLEY had just passed away....and the SLITS carried the torch........RAINBOW WARRIORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is so good miss you ari respect xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Brilliant.
The keyboard bleeps mixed with the reggae is soooooo darn gooood!
Wow..just brilliant.
Awesome....🌹🌹🌹
It's really fascinating how different we are. Just our hearing!
To you this is awesome.
To me this is awful. If I were forced to listen to this I'd go mental.
Isn't that really intriguing to think about that our hearings are that different?
Btw, I'm not one of those trolls who seek up videos to talk shit.
I was recommended The Slits because I LOVE punk! So I thought I'd check them out. I thought they were like Hole, just more pure punk.
So far not my cup of tea.
But I like people who go they're own way, in that regards they're cool.
love this -- thank you for sharing!
I Love this girls!
for anyone wondering what ari said: "I just wanted to say I'm a woman but that doesn't mean that I want to be like a man. That's why we wear those dresses. We are women and we don't need to say we are a women-movement because that's just to assure ourselves that we really are women but we now that from the beginning, that won't hurt us(ari didn'T make sense here sry)The men are the men, then let 'em be. I mean, damn (interjection->"are you on your period?")*laughing*anyways many women say we can do everything a man can do. no i can't, i can't i'm just a woman and i can only do what women can do, yeah?so you finally get it one, two, three ..."
Ultra cool!
love love love
hate hate hate
i love! ari's voice
If we could remain young forevermore.
Music should be fun and entertaining the slits put on a show just by being themselves you can take it or leave it! I just bought my first Slits CD something we can learn today be original...
Thanks and God Bless Ari .
Ok Ari came from a rich background which maybe gave her the confidence to be herself... but you carn't deny what a creative free spirit she was.
Michael odowd she also was in the scene so young , like 14 years old . very lax parenting plays a part too i guess !
She was assaulted, stabbed, beaten...wasn’t so easy to be yourself back then - this entire band stood for something that was very new at that time
@@robertlane1197 In some respects what you say is true ..but paradoxically there were more individuals and real characters furrowing their own path.back then .now people are scared to fart in case it gets deemed as not policitally correct or put down as hate crime..where are all the creative thjnkers.. musicians now everything is homogenized Um not saying they are not out there ..but a wider audience will not get a chance to hear ..see them ..no chance ..
je just took the hard stuff
Its what being a full on total extrovert is all about !!!
Wow!
Great bass tone.
Ampeg.
Damn, I would have been twelve or thirteen years old at that time and, still, would not have known abut them. : ( : (
RIP Ari Up you will be missed
Thank you sooooo much! This is fantastic! Is there more?
No they only ever played this one time and it was only one song.
PrPwnage - lollllll 😂
Anyway, this is fantastic...R.I.P. Ari Up. ♪♪♪♪♥♪♪♪♪
best girl or boy band ever!
i love to see old school reggae influencing so many important bands.
rip ari... i didn't know... :S
Dub
thanks Omuskaria0 - i didn't know that - thanks for posting. i like The Paragons version... xox.
I think this is very creative--they really evolved over the years. It takes a little while to get into it. The lead singer is amazing--as a performer, not really a singer.
Yes, I used to babysit Naïma. :)
I like the bass
Bruce Smith from The Pop Group on drums here!
Thanks !! I was racking my memory, knowing the drummer's style and being unable to figure out who it is.
@LisergicoRojo Thanks for the civil response and you gave me information, as well.
Epic.
Damn. Nenah Cherry’s been a member of The Slits since 1980. Had no idea.
slits true punk forever AND EVER!
Rip. great footage- where is the rest of it? more please.
These Rootikall and Cultural sounds are inspired by H.I.M. Emperor Haile i Selassie I .....respect to Ari Up for transferring the message in that beautifull way...
There's A guy in my Nieghborhood (weird Music break) I love the slits.RIP ARI UP I need a bass-playing fender-precision girlfriend, who wears dreadlocks (or not) I need one now.
@Khultan i was only speaking about his influence on punk music. Dunno about the "aestethic value od Hip Hop" being "recognized" by him: Im not trashing him, and your comment just helps me make my point. He was mainly into aesthetics than in music, thats my humble opinion, and as ive seen in many interviews, thats even how the Pistols depict him as a greedy person being more interested in pushing his beloved Sid on the grounds of him "looking good"... opinions on him may have changed btw
THANK YOU!!
R.I.P. Ari.
I see a very young Neneh Cherry!!! :)
and there´s Neneh Cherry aswell! :)
RIP Ari
Fucking love this ... it is like a punk voodoo ceremony.
Rest in peace ! Ari Up.
Ari kills it
Is that Steve Beresford on keyboards (best to be seen on 5:30)
Yes.
***** Thanx for the confirmation. I've seen steve also once as one of the Mafia members with Mark Stewart in A'dam.
yes..
Cool ! Was thinking i knew the style n sound but couldn't place it !!!
Wow! How young must the excellent Neneh Cherry have been at this point?
16-18
@Khultan thx for the info ill look up that! ... i was judging his influence in punk -which many see as awful, even the Pistols hated him telling them to stick Vicious in their band or how to dress. They mostly refer Vicious as a "human coat hanger" imposed by McLaren. I like the pistols too, just pointing out that the clothing was another mean to disturb common ppl (just like Siouxsie wore swastikas... shes no nazi!) not "PUNK" as its not to be reduced imho to clothing or hair-do
Tessa pollit is the hardest worker babe, bless you, that baseline is fucking awesome 💞❤💜💞💕💞❤💜💜💜💜💜💜RIP ARI :(
love your munich accent ari
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
nice nice nice
fUCKING HELL...BEST EVER...TESSA WOULD LOVE THIS...BASS BEST EVER...oF COURSE WE MISS HER...LIKE A LEFT LEG WE MISS HER....EVERY DAY WE MISS HER...
Ariup.. hilarious and fucking amazing :) true punk artisdt!
For my peer group (16 in 1981) we took German, the same way we would later take Russian, and the kids after us took Japanese...all for the same reason: German, like the successive fads, was as remote from our American experience as the fabled Dyson Spheres of other worlds...
2:13 is that Neenah Cherry?
Absolutely is
sad that none in the usa will be able to appreciate ari. too mentally closed. RIP ari
Too bad your understanding of Americans is so limited, but I 'm sure it simplifies things to not have to consider reality, and it is always satisfying to believe that you are better than a large group of people.I'm sure Ari would approve.
david,
not stated well by me i guess. i am american and i can tell you virtually no 1 in america had the chance to experience ari. hope that explains my post.
rcstafford1 I hear ya.
Rcstafford, they never toured the U.S.?
Nah, EveryEIN Nicht, MeinMined ist being 'STOLEN'(Thoughts, Dreams, Hopes) by some KOCHED-DÜMPKOPFFEN.
Like listening to kids playing instruments in school.
The lead singer of Rip Rig & Panic as backing vocals, not bad ! The public got very lucky.
Yep.
...¡Not exactly! I also thought I had found the original version of Massive Attack cover when I listened to Dr.Alimantado's song... but that was a cover of an older version of Horace Andy's "Quiet Place", wich also comes from the original song "I've got to get away" by John Holt & The Paragons. One song, 3 different names, many many covers ;)
Bit of dad dancing going on!
song is from Dr Alimantado (Best Dressed Chicken in the Town) Bruce Smith ... drums with PiL now. Best drummer ev-ah
In the end I think it really had very little to do with how "good" there musuc actually was. They were about pushing boundaries, innovating and being inspired by the many genres going in at the time. It one of the documentaries they said the clubs they hung at reggae/dub so naturally it became part of their sound. The Clash really pushed the genre mash up even further.
I want this outfit! YOU HERE ME ARI!!!??
No she does not - she is no longer with us RIP Ari
John holt legend
ARI UP!!!!
Wish there was bands like this now ! Well Im sure there are BUT that are bigggg.. music these days = SHIT
Katey Mcgrath The Slits were never 'big' nowhere near the mainstream.
+Katey Mcgrath look for the band warpaint
Raincoats ? Bellestars where alright too, for mainstream. Poison girls. Persons Unknown... what a track ! Penis envy by Crass , with Eve Libertine. Great album.
+Jon Jones No offence but fuck big. It usually just means they're co opted sell outs to the very system that gave them their fake passion.
Bruce Smith, of course! I can beat that--did you know the Black back up singer/dancer is Neneh Cherry?
PURE, UNADULTERATED TALENT.
Do you have the rest ????????? Please !
what's this edited from?
Ja ja.
es ist zwart live, alt und aus berlin, aber ohne schmerzen kann ich das nicht anhören.