Man, oh man... @dunia absolutely slayed at the Lincoln Center tribute to Poly Styrene last night. https://www.instagram.com/stories/lilgershwin/3598690264349170541?igsh=MWFjZndtbTZ0bWRwag
#xrayspex #punk #womeninpunk
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!)
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
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"
33 years ago
Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex performing on stage at Brixton Academy, London, September 14, 1991. #RipPolyStyrene
Photo by Ian Dickson
.. And let's finish with #PolyStyrene
#XraySpex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours!
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
47 years ago today
The unforgotten Poly Styrene with X-Ray Spex at Greyhound, Park Lane, Croydon, April 16, 1977.
Photos by Gus Stewart
46 years ago today
Poly Styrene performing with X-Ray Spex at CBGB in New York City on March 26, 1978.
Photo by Ebet Roberts
46 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
Punk, activism and art: The Tate's Women in Revolt! features 100 women artists working in the UK.
In this issue of my Fire Red Sky newsletter I talk about the first-of-its-kind exhibition, with an emphasis on the space it gives to punk.
46 years ago
Poly Styrene on the front cover of Los Angeles punk fanzine 'Slash', February 1978
45 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"
46 years ago
Poly Styrene performing with X-Ray Spex in November 1977 at the Marquee Club in London.
Photo by Caitriona Reed
