I just interviewed Ari Up from seminal UK punk act The Slits, about their U.S. tour this fall (they play El Corazon on Weds. Nov. 22), and she was so fuckin’ badass. I haven’t been nervous about chatting with an artist since I got on the horn with Siouxsie Sioux a few years ago. Ari just seems so tough in old video footage… but while it was clear she doesn’t suffer fools, our interview went off much better than the disastrous one preserved on this 1981 Slits promo single. Whew!