Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
Bad weather failed to put off thousands of music fans who turned out to a free anti-racism festival in London.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
The Good, The Bad and The Queen, Hard-Fi and Jay Sean headline an anti-racism concert in London.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
During the 45-minute wait that preceded Kate Nash's arrival on stage at the Trocadero Theatre on Saturday, the sold-out crowd heard a mix of '60s Motown and girl-group hits.
infinite thØught (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
Well worth attending and donating to Love Music Hate Racism . Their Carnival is on Sunday 27 April in Victoria Park, 12-6pm. It is free, but you should donate! Lineup includes: The Good the Bad the Queen, Roll Deep, Wiley...and Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex! (And loads of others, it's just that I'm getting too old to know who they all are).
Ian Bone (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Well………..a nice touch……….I hear that POLY STYRENE is to open the LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM festival in Victoria Park on April 27th just as she opened the original RAR festival there in 1978. Let’s hope there’s not the kind of misunderstanding there was at the HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN punk festival in Blackpool a few years [...]
Larvatus Prodeo (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Tomorrow is the day we commemorate the actions of a group of brave working-class women who protested against dreadful working conditions in the garment industry. It's also the day we celebrate and think about the gains women have made in areas like income equality and reproductive rights. Of course, there’s still a long way to go for women - especially for women living in [...]
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
This week's video features the punk diva Poly Styrene and a wonderfully bleak record from my first year at York. For some reason it always reminds me of the most dismal spot on the campus: Vanburgh College snack bar. X-Ray Spex have their own website and this clip from The Punk Years is informative too.
WACCOE (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
Was discussing music earlier about who's singing voices you like the best (note: not the best singers as that is a completely different matter). My immeadiate thoughts were these. I seem to go for very distinctive voices, nobody else sound remotely them. Joe Strummer Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex) Sam Cooke Will Oldham (Palace/Bonnie 'Prince' Billy) Kim Deal Robert Wyatt Elizabeth Taylor (Cocteau Twins)...
Pitchfork (Free subscription) | 01/21/2008
London punk band adds elements of fun and the X-Ray Spex to the ultra-distorted, merry-go-round grind of contemporaries like HEALTH and Sightings.
Indie MP3 (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007
I have seen The Chiara L's a couple of times now and was very impressed with their performance at indie tracks where the bands mixture of indie/electro pop combined with a sound reminiscent of 1970's Blondie went down a right treat. As I have written previously the band have in the shape of front woman Chiara a poweful figure similar to the women of punk such as Pauline Murray (Penetration), Poly Styrene...
