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As Essential Logic release their second album 43 years after their first, their founder talks squats, scary gigs and her tempestuous relationship with her X-Ray Spex bandmate
Lora Logic, original sax player for X-ray Spex, has a new album out with her post-Spex band, Essential Logic, plus rereleases of their back catalogue. Here she also talks about joining Poly’s band at age 15, the ups and downs of their long friendship, and her quarter-century break from music.
Hi , Is there any way you would be able to sell reproduction replica copies of the Germfree Adolescents poster, as per the one on this site ??. Would love to own a copy, get it framed etc. Many thanks, Neil. Bristol.
Hi Neil, unfortunately I do not own the copyright to any of the images here (which is why I did my best to credit the photographers when I could find them). And if copyright weren't an issue, I'd still need a high res photo to print, which I don't have for a promo poster. In some cases I do own a physical copy of the image (like this photo) and I could get you a higher-res scan at some point for you to get printed.
I don't have any posters, though. I have shared a lot of Poly Styrene/X-ray spex fan art over the years--maybe there are some artists out there selling their own posters and they could comment on this post! Or someone who knows a place for good quality X-Ray Spex replica posters, or who has a scan of theirs.
All the best to you and yours in Bristol!
Poly puts on kettle, make-up, style.
photo by Pennie Smith, from the May 13, 1978 NME
Poly Styrene photographed by Janette Beckman, 1981.
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from the Live At The Roxy Club sleeve
Poly Styrene, Sister (left), and Friend.
photo by Pennie Smith, from the May 13, 1978 NME
Poly Styrene’s, sketch for her solo album Generation Indigo, 2011.
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“I had an innate desire to be free. To be free from unwanted desires seemed desirable.”
July 3: Happy Birthday Poly Styrene
Consider watching (or rewatching) the 1979 BBC documentary Who is Poly Styrene today.
Track of the Day; 3/5/17
Plastic Bag - X-Ray Spex, 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFv53VolRj8
The life of iconic punk and frontwoman Poly Styrene is coming to our screens, using her own diaries and the voice of her daughter, Celeste Bell.
“I think she was very much ahead of her time. She was talking about the world as she saw it in the seventies, but in many ways, it was the world we live in now. She was on the edge, the precipice of globalisation and extreme consumerism, neoliberal capitalism… these were all things she could see starting.” -- Poly Styrene’s daughter, Celeste Bell
Finally Poly Styrene is getting a movie and a book celebrating her life, incorporating her diary and a trove of original artwork that I’m very excited to see.
X-Ray Spex, Identity
Poly Styrene, February 1978, photographed for "Over 21" magazine, by Rolph Gobits.
via Poly Styrene R.I.P. on Facebook
Black Christmas - Poly Styrene
October shows for X-RAY SPEX (1977)
#100Days100Women Day 57: Poly Styrene—Poly Styrene was a singer-songwriter and the front-woman for trailblazing punk band X-Ray Spex. A UK woman of Somali and Scottish-Irish parents, with X-Ray Spex Poly railed against consumerism and patriarchal ideas of perfect girlhood, exemplified in their most known song “Oh Bondage, Up Yours!” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene … & http://www.rookiemag.com/2016/08/hero-status-poly-styrene/ …
