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minus Poly Styrene, overcoming her last-minute decision to withdraw by recruiting a replacement female singer named Poly Filla. The band disbanded, but later releases include a compilation of the group's early records, a live album, and an anthology of all the aforementioned.
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The first incarnation of X-Ray Spex existed from mid-1976 to 1979, during which time they released five singles—"Oh Bondage Up Yours!", "Identity", "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo", "Germfree Adolescents", and "Highly Inflammable"—and one album,
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X-Ray Spex's other distinctive musical element was Poly Styrene's voice, which has been variously described as "effervescently discordant" and "powerful enough to drill holes through sheet metal". As Mari Elliot, Styrene had released a
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father and a British mother, Poly Styrene became the group's public face, and remains one of the most memorable front-women to emerge from the punk movement. Unorthodox in appearance, she wore thick
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On 28 April 2008, Poly Styrene gave a performance of "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" in front of more than 10,000 people at the Love Music Hate Racism free concert in Victoria Park, East London.
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album. Styrene was nineteen years old at the time of the recording. The publicity from this gig led to a "near residency", particularly on Sunday nights, at 'The Man in the Moon' pub,
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With anti-fashion icon Poly Styrene as frontwoman, and a 15-year-old Lora Logic on sax, X-Ray Spex offered neon DIY rock'n'roll that proved punk wasn't all self-harm and safety pins.
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They aimed their fluorescent bile at the vapidity and sterility of the modern world, specifically the increasingly consumerist nature of society, in classic sax-drenched anthems
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in its entirety, with the exception of "Plastic Bag". A DVD and CD of the Roundhouse performance was released in November 2009 on the Year Zero Label by Future Noise Music.
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and, through their live performances, she and X-Ray Spex became one of the most talked about acts on the infant punk scene. The band played twice at the punk club
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The whole record is a thunderingly radical and real; production is straightforward and merely delivers the sound of a scorching, hectic band unto the listener
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Jak Airport later worked for the BBC's corporate and public relations department under his real name, Jack Stafford; he died on 13 August 2004 of cancer.
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The band including original bass player Paul Dean, played what was described as a raucous comeback gig and in front of an audience of 3,000 full at
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sums up the band's 1970s contribution as "one of the most inventive, original and genuinely exciting groups to emerge during the punk era".
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In November 1978, the band released their debut album. With the exception of "Identity", which was partially based on Styrene witnessing
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are widely acclaimed as classic punk releases. The band has briefly reformed several times in the 1990s and 2000s.
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During their first incarnation (1976–1979), X-Ray Spex released five singles and one album. Their 1977 single "
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In late September 1977, a studio recording of "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" was released as a single. Today, the
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in late November and early December 1977. This resulted in the band's inclusion, alongside the likes of
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is regarded as their most enduring artefact, both as a piece of music and as a sort of proto-grrrl
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and that if anybody tried to make me one I'd shave my head tomorrow". She later actually did at
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Without Styrene, the group lost its momentum and split up. Hurding and Airport went on to form
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Listing of those various artist compilation albums mentioned in the text of the main article:
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single for GTO Records in 1976, "Silly Billy", which had not charted. Born in 1957 in
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movement 15 years later, although Styrene herself insists it was more intended as an
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newspaper described the album as containing "unrivalled anti-consumerism anthems".
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member Tracie O'Keefe slash her wrists in the restroom of the Roxy, the rest of
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Oh bondage up yours! The early punk movement—and the women who made it rock
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Lora Logic left the band aged 16 in late 1977 to form a new group called
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X-Ray Spex played at 'Front Row Festival', a three-week event at the
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It was a tremendous record… Whatever else X-Ray Spex might achieve,
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had already done more than most groups manage in an entire career
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Styrene was inspired to form a band by seeing the Sex Pistols in
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Cinderella's Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground
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In 1991, X-Ray Spex reformed for a surprise sell-out gig at the
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Up Yours! A Guide to UK Punk, New Wave & Early Post Punk
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on 25 April 2011 in East Sussex, England, at the age of 53.
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during its first 100 days. In March, the band played with
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on her teeth and once stated that "I said that I wasn't a
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This article is about the punk band. For other uses, see
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Revolt-in-plastic punk. Weird arty stuff with saxophone
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Appearances on various artist compilations (selective)
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was released in the United States in September 2019.
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in London on 6 September 2008. The gig consisted of
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Poly Styrene
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Lora Logic
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