The Creative Writing Reading Series this week (Wednesday 12 November) welcomes the legendary Viv Albertine.

Part of the original “inner circle” with the Sex Pistols and a close friend of both Mick Jones and Joe Strummer of The Clash, Viv is an influential guitarist, singer and songwriter. She is perhaps best known as the guitarist for the all-female English punk group The Slits. After The Slits disbanded in 1982, Albertine studied filmmaking. She worked as a director, mostly for television, throughout most of the 1980s and 1990s.

Albertine’s memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, was published this summer in the UK by Faber and Faber. The Guardian review said: ‘And now she comes back to herself, and she is certainly playing brilliantly at the moment. She has survived where many were not waving but drowning. What she was searching for was there all along. Long before fourth-wave feminism started critiquing the cosmetic-industrial complex, the Slits – all underarm hair and knickers showing – were chaos magicians. The song that said ‘Typical girls / Don’t create / Don’t rebel / Have intuition / Can’t decide? Well, Albertine decided. Creation is the rebellion. She still has it all to play for.’

The Creative Writing Reading Series takes place every Wednesday in Keynes Senior Common Room at 6pm. Entry is £2 (wine included) and all are warmly welcome.