Viv Albertine & Laetitia Sadier

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Viv Albertine is a British singer and songwriter, best known as the guitarist for the influential, all-female English punk group, The Slits. Viv Albertine was amongst the first “inner circle” fans of the Sex Pistols, and was close friends of both Mick Jones and Joe Strummer of The Clash. Albertine joined The Slits as the band’s guitarist, after founding member Kate Korus left in 1977. After twenty five years away from music, influential guitarist and songwriter, Viv Albertine, releases her first solo album ‘The Vermilion Border’ – released 5th November 2012 through Cadiz Music. The album features a renowned bass player on each track, and even reunites Viv with Mick Jones of The Clash, who plays guitar on ‘Confessions of a MILF’.

Best known as the lead vocalist for Stereolab, Laetitia Sadier was born in France and was working as a nanny in the late ’80s when she met McCarthy member Tim Gane at one of the band’s gigs in Paris. She followed Gane to London and the duo formed Stereolab soon after McCarthy disbanded in 1990. The pair was inspired by lounge-pop, bossa nova, film music, and Krautrock, but Sadier’s hypnotic vocals and leftist lyrics made the band’s sound even more distinctive. Stereolab earned critical acclaim for albums such as 1993′s ‘Transient Random Noise Bursts with Announcements’, 1995′s ‘Mars Audiac Quintet’ and 2001′s ‘Sound-Dust’ Sadier’s immediately recognizable voice also appeared on many other collaborations over the years, including songs with Blur, Luna, The High Llamas, and Mouse on Mars. Stereolab went on hiatus in 2009 and Sadier began work on her first solo album, working with the Spinanes‘ Rebecca Gates, April March, Richard Swift, and former Monade players Julien Gasc and Emmanuel Mario. ‘The Trip’ was released in 2010, the same year that another Stereolab collection, ‘Not Music’, arrived. Two years later, the more introspective, political ‘Silencio‘ appeared.