47 years ago
Poly Styrene with X-Ray Spex at CBGB, New York, March 1978.
Photos by Ebet Roberts
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #polystyrene
#xrayspex #cbgb #history #punkrockhistory
47 years ago
Poly Styrene with X-Ray Spex at CBGB, New York, March 1978.
Photos by Ebet Roberts
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #polystyrene
#xrayspex #cbgb #history #punkrockhistory
A list of music genres and inspirations: #KateBush #FreeJazz #ExperimentalMusic #ElectronicMusic #Radiohead #Filter #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees #disco #HouseMusic #DeepX (defunct electronic label) #XraySpex (no relation to DeepX) #UA #punk #postpunk #techno #Zeuhl #GusGus #MatthewDear #HenryRollins #Mallsoft #Audacity #LMMS #sampling #Noh music #能 #intonarumori #MauriceRavel #JohnAdams #gamelan #SafetyScissors #Perfume (list will be expanded as I think of more!)
Recorded #OnThisDay 47 years ago:
X-ray Spex - Peel Session 1978
The complete session recorded on 20 February 1978 by X-ray Spex for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1.
Tracklist:
1. Art-I-Ficial (0:19)
2. I Am A Poseur (3:56)
3. Identity (6:33)
4. Genetic Engineering (10:41)
http://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2012/05/x-ray-spex-peel-session-1978.html
My buddy #DJShaxx had a special #AfroPunk edition of #LeftOfTheDial on #WMPG in honor of #BlackHistoryMonth! Includes #XRaySpex, #LivingColour, #ESG, and more!
Setlist:
https://spinitron.com/WMPG/pl/20215451/Left-of-the-Dial
Audio archives:
https://www.wmpg.org/show/wed1700/#
#WMPGFM #CommunityRadio #BlackMusicians #BlackHistory
47 years ago
Poly Styrene on the front cover of Los Angeles punk fanzine 'Slash', February 1978
Polystyrene – gone but not forgotten
X-Ray Spex - I Am A Poseur
47 years ago
X-Ray Spex played at 'Front Row Festival', a three-week event at the Hope and Anchor, Islington, December 10, 1977
47 years ago
Poly Styrene performing with X-Ray Spex in November 1977 at the Marquee Club in London.
Photo by Caitriona Reed
46 years ago today
Germfree Adolescents is the debut album of English punk rock band X-Ray Spex, released on this day in 1978 featuring the singles "The Day the World Turned Dayglo", "Identity" and "Germ Free Adolescents"
47 years ago today
"Oh Bondage Up Yours!" is the debut single by English punk rock band X-Ray Spex, released on this day in 1977.
33 years ago
Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex performing on stage at Brixton Academy, London, September 14, 1991. #RipPolyStyrene
Photo by Ian Dickson
In memory of the one and only Marianne Joan Elliott-Said aka Poly Styrene, frontwoman of the punk rock band X-Ray Spex, born on this day in 1957, Bromley, United Kingdom
Photo by Gus Stewart
Remembering Poly Styrene, British musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex. She died of metastatic breast cancer on 25 April 2011, at the age of 53