Ari Up

Ari Up was born Arianna Forster to a German mother in 1962 (John Lydon was her stepfather). Raised in London, she formed the all-girl punk band the Slits in January 1977, around a lineup of drummer Palmolive (born Paloma Romero), guitarist Kate Korus, and bassist Suzi Gutsy. By the time the group actually appeared in public, however, Gutsy had been replaced by Tessa Pollitt (the pair had previously played together in the Castrators) and Korus by Viv Albertine, who'd appeared alongside Palmolive in Lydon's Flowers of Romance. Over the next four years, the Slits would cut two l...