The hitherto overlooked story of one of British music’s most influential and game-changing bands. From the band’s inception in 1976 to the band’s end in 2010 following the death of lead vocalist Ari Up, Here to Be Heard: The Story of the Slits tells the story of the world’s first all-girl punk band and the lives of the young pioneering women involved. Contemporaries of The Clash and The Sex Pistols, The Slits are the trailblazing godmothers of the musical movement known as ‘Punky Reggae’. Directed by William ‘Bill’ Badgley (KARP Lives!), Here to Be Heard: The Story of The Slits combines original archive footage with new, insightful interviews of band members, contemporaries and experts including Ari Up, Viv Albertine, Palmolive, Tessa Pollitt, the band’s former manager Don Letts, The Sex Pistols’ drummer Paul Cook, Gina Birch of The Raincoats and many more.