Viv Albertine Viv Albertine  Viv Albertine talks candidly to
Will Parkhouse about her musical reawakening and the release of
her excellent new EP Flesh, on Ecstatic Peace - February 25th,
2010 -  In the cosy confines of Borough's Gladstone pub, Viv
Albertine is singing a song, a percussive Nico-like chant in
which she declares: "I believe in granite/ I believe in mud/ I
believe in mountains/ I don't believe in love." As the
performance comes to an end, her eyes appear to have welled up,
an odd contrast to the song's denial of emotion. The second
track from her excellent new Flesh EP, out on Thurston Moore's
Ecstatic Peace label, it's the most affecting moment in a set
which has its bumps evened out by assurance and humour. "Legends
do that, you know," she tells the audience after forgetting her
guitar capo. Later she warns: "Here's where it all comes out.
Confessions of a milf."  Certainly the most glamorous of The
Slits, Albertine quit music for film school and directing and
raised a daughter before the chan