The Slits were a British punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band

Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...

. The quartet was formed in 1976 by members of the bands The Flowers of Romance

The Flowers of Romance (band)

The Flowers of Romance were an early punk band, formed in mid-1976 by Jo Faull and Sarah Hall. The band never played live or released any recordings, and, like London SS and Masters of the Backside, are more famed for the number of band members that later became well known, including: Sid Vicious...

 and The Castrators. The members were Ari Up

Ari Up

Ariane Daniele Forster , better known by her stage name Ari Up, was a German-born vocalist, best known as a member of the English punk group, The Slits.-Career:...

 (Arianna Forster), who died of cancer in October 2010, and Palmolive

Palmolive (musician)

Palmolive was the stage name for Spanish-born drummer Paloma McLardy, née Paloma Romero. Palmolive was a songwriter and the original drummer for influential punk groups The Slits and The Raincoats....

 (Paloma Romero, who later left to join The Raincoats

The Raincoats

The Raincoats are a British post-punk band. Ana da Silva and Gina Birch formed the group in 1977 while they were students at Hornsey College of Art, London, England.-Career:...

), with Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine

Viv Albertine is a British singer and songwriter, best known as the guitarist for the influential, all-female English punk group, The Slits....

 and Tessa Pollitt

Tessa Pollitt

Tessa Pollitt was the bass guitarist for the punk rock outfit The Slits, between 1976 and 1981, when the band first split up. She returned to the band when it was reformed in 2006....

 replacing founding members, Kate Korus and Suzy Gutsy. Palmolive was replaced by the drummer Budgie

Budgie (drummer)

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 (aka Peter Clarke), formerly of The Spitfire Boys

The Spitfire Boys

The Spitfire Boys were the first Liverpool punk band to release a single . The Spitfire Boys were mainly notable for including in their line-up Peter Clarke, who went on to drum for The Slits and later Siouxsie and the Banshees as Budgie, and Paul Rutherford, later better known for being a member...

 and later of Siouxsie and the Banshees.