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The Slits took shape in the mid-'70s when 14-year-old Ari-Up (Ariane Forster) met drummer Palmolive (Paloma Romero) at a Patti Smith concert and agreed to sing with her band. With guitarist Viv Albertine and bassist Tessa Pollitt, the Slits made one of the biggest, wildest rackets in British punk. Massively influential and decades ahead of their time, they toured with the Clash, recorded sessions for John Peel, transformed from a raw punk band to a dub reggae conglomerate and left behind just two studio albums before their demise in 1981. Bi-locating between Brooklyn and Jamaica, Ari Up leads the new Slits, leaning heavily on her reggae influences but still with a true punk attitude, mixing her own new material with Slits