Tessa Pollitt
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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.
Pollitt had replaced the band's original bassist, Suzy Gutsy, who left after only a few weeks in tenure in 1976.
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...
outfit The Slits
The Slits
The Slits were a British punk rock band. The quartet was formed in 1976 by members of the bands The Flowers of Romance and The Castrators. The members were Ari Up , who died of cancer in October 2010, and Palmolive , with Viv Albertine and Tessa Pollitt replacing founding members, Kate Korus and...
, between 1976 and 1981, when the band first split up. She returned to the band when it was reformed in 2006.
Pollitt had replaced the band's original bassist, Suzy Gutsy, who left after only a few weeks in tenure in 1976.