Wild defiant & startlingly inventive The Slits were ahead of their time. Although they created some unique hybrids
- dub reggae & pop-punk African rhythms funk & free jazz
- they were dismissed as being unable to play. Their lyrics were witty & perceptive while their influential first album challenged perceptions of punk & of girl bands
- but they were still misunderstood. & that infamous debut album cover with the band appearing topless & mud-daubed prompted further misreadings of the first ladies of punk. Author Zoe Street Howe speaks to The Slits themselves to former manager Don Letts mentor & PIL guitarist Keith Levene & many other friends & colleagues to discover exactly how The Slits phenomenon came about & to celebrate the legacy of a seminal band long overdue its rightful acclaim. Too long seen as a note in the margin of the history of rock The Slits at last get a fair hearing in this revealing biography.