Viv Albertine, singer, guitar player, founder of seminal female punk band The Slits (1977-1982), in 2014 published an autobiography titled "Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys" where, at page 41, quite surprisingly, she writes a short memory on the Third Ear Band...
"One of the strangest bands I saw around this time was the Third Ear Band at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. I found out about then through listening to John Peel on the radio. He was always mentioning them. He played on their record Alchemy. The music was over my head, really difficult, but I understood their ideas - experimentation, pushing boundaries and not conforming to musical clichés. I stared at the stage, I couldn't tell if one of the players in the band was male or female, the tall skinny one with long black hair; I stared and stared at this one hoping and hoping that they were female. I left without knowing as she or he had their head down the whole time."
"Me and my friend Zaza went to see Third Ear Band again (even though they were very experimental, they played all over the place and had a big following) in July 1969 when I was fifteen. They opened for the Rolling Stones at the ‘Stones in the Park’ free concert in ‘the cockpit’ — the big dip in the grass in Hyde Park. King Crimson were on too."
Would she be pleased today to know that a woman also played at the Queen Elizabeth Hall... Ursula Smith?
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