Bio

The Cherry Slits were going to be huge. Bigger than huge! Belligerent, nouveau punk goddesses.

Nicola. Katie. Magnolia. Sissy - and Belinda on synth.

They had 24 co-written songs dripping with angst and rage and beauty. Two recorded demos, twenty-nine gigs, two popular singles with regular airplay on the student radio network. A cover on a national music mag...and a glorious plan!

Work their day jobs, save up and move to L.A. – there they'd be picked up by a record label and wait for stardom to follow.

Then Nicola met Dougie. He fancied her but not L.A. And they got married.

Fronted by iconic New Zealand actor Jodie Rimmer, Cherry Slits have sprung straight from the pages of Kathryn Burnett’s new comedy Nicola Cheeseman is Back, the bitingly funny and painfully relatable story of Nicola Cheeseman, a woman sick of trying to do it all.