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genetic engineering
could create the perfect race
could create an unknown life-force
that could us exterminate
introducing worker clone
as our subordinated slave
his expertise proficiency
will surely dig our grave
it's so tempting
will biologists resist
when he becomes the creator
will he let us exist
bionic man is jumping
through the television set
he's about to materialise
and guess who's coming next
x ray spex - genetic engineering (germ free adolescents, 1978)
Sid from Rubella Ballet and Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex at Camdens Roundhouse in London on the 6th September 2008 to a packed audience.
Music for today : I am a cliché by X-Ray Spex
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So excited to be sharing these x-rays again - for the first time in over 20 years. Robin Forster and I created them back in 1992, and they have just been beautifully restored by conservators.
These were exhibited in several high profile venues, including the National Gallery of Australia’s ground-breaking Art in the Age of AIDS exhibition (1994), and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Graphic Responses to AIDS (1996). We also created an experimental video using the x-rays which was screened at numerous international museum events and #LGBTQ film festivals.
We created the x-ray series of erotic encounters between men at a harrowing time when the AIDS crisis was at its peak and AIDS was considered by many to be an inevitable “punishment” for our lifestyles as gay men. In response we wanted our x-rays to picture a mocking carnival of anonymous skeletons lost in hedonistic pleasure. But we hope the beautiful smokiness of the x-rays also conveys a feel of tender eroticism, intimacy and love between men in the midst of the epidemic.
Robin and I collaborated as an art duo for 15 years (1989 - 2004) and even completed an MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art as a double act in 2001.
More x-rays to be posted soon, but in the meanwhile you can see the full set at www.barrett-forster.com
EVAN DANDO, Gramercy Park Hotel, NYC.
We were listening to records on his portable record player while I photographed him. His Xray Spex 7" was dirty so he ran it under the bathroom sink. Needless to say it fucked up the record player. Yeah, that's water on the vinyl. Ouch.
Another couple of my punk badges which I wore during 1977.
The top badge is an X-Ray Spex badge and features a photo of Poly Styrene who was their lead singer. X-Ray Spex were a fantastic band and their record: 'Oh Bondage, Up Yours!’ was a classic punk single. Their guitarist Jak Airport dated my cousin Vicky for a short while. I went round to my Grandma’s house one afternoon in ’77 or ’78 and Jak was there. We talked for a while about the band over a cup of tea.
Sadly Jak Airport died of cancer in 2004 and Poly Styrene died of spinal and breast cancer on 25 April 2011.
The bottom badge is of Siouxsie Sioux, lead singer of Siouxsie and the Banshees. I am not sure where I bought this badge but I don’t think it could have been from Joly MacFie’s Better Badges stall because Siouxsie is misspelt as: ‘Siouxie’!
These two badges of Poly Styrene and Siouxsie Sioux are examples of the important role that women played in punk rock. Up until then the music industry was dominated by all male bands but that was another barrier that punk broke down.
A flyer for The Vortex club in London’s Soho advertising the line-up of punk bands playing there on Monday 8 August and Tuesday 9 August 1977:
Monday 8 August 1977
X-Ray Spex
Eater
Wire
The Unwanted
Tuesday 9 August 1977
Slaughter and The Dogs
Mean Street
Flicks
Fruit Eating Bears
The Vortex at Crackers
203 Wardour Street, London, W1F 8SW
These photocopied flyers were handed out to people queuing outside the Marquee club in Wardour Street in August 1977. The Vortex was a Punk club which opened in July 1977 at Crackers discothèque, 203 Wardour Street, London, W1F 8SW. The Vortex put on Punk gigs on Mondays and Tuesdays at Crackers and closed in March 1978.
The Jam’s ‘A Bomb In Wardour Street’ single describes being beaten-up at the Vortex: 'stranded on the Vortex floor' with 'the blood starting to pour' while '3 geezers' have his girlfriend pinned to a wall.
Paul Wright, Vicky Wallis (now Foster), Jak Airport and Debbie Wright (now Batstone) at 199 Cock House Road, Beckenham, 1979.
At the time this photograph was taken Jak Airport (real name Jack Stafford) was the was the guitarist of 1970s punk band X-Ray Spex. He was also going out with Vicky and we chatted about X-Ray Spex's upcoming tour of Japan.
Jack Stafford died of cancer on 13 August 2004.
Poly Styrene, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for punk rock band X-Ray Spex, died on 25 April 2011 (aged 53).
1. What's your favorite song?
2. Favorite genre of music?
3. Favorite musician?
4. What was the last song you listened to/are currently listening to?
5. What type of music do you dislike?
6. What instrument do you like to listen to the most?
7. What instrument do you most like to play (or would like to learn)?
8. Where do you go or what do you listen to when you're sad?
9. What was the last concert or musical event you attended (add singer/band to end if necessary)?
10. What concert or musical event do you wish you could have attended? Or a performer you would have loved to have seen live?
11. You and your sweetie, what's your 'song'? If you aren't paired off, what song do you think it might be?
12. What song gets stuck in your head the most? (For good or for bad...)
Leonard Cohen
Book :
Ed Ruscha
They Called Her Styrene
Phaidon
2000
Postcard + CD :
Marianne Joan Elliott - Said
Poly Styrene
X Ray Spex
Elizabethan Ballroom
Belle Vue
Manchester
9 July 1977
Photography . Kevin Cummins
Use Hearing Protection
GMA
This is a flyer advertising the bands that were playing at London’s Marquee Club in August 1977. I used to pick these up when I was at The Marquee because I always wanted to know which bands were coming up. This was during the summer of punk and in one week in 1977 the following bands were playing:
Monday 01 August – The Vibrators (admission: £1.00)
Wednesday 03 August – Boomtown Rats (admission: 80p)
Thursday 04 August – The Buzzcocks (admission: 80p)
Friday 05 August – Radio Stars (admission: 75p)
Saturday 06 August – X Ray Spex (admission: 75p)
I went to the Boomtown Rats and Buzzcocks gigs from the above list.
Marquee Club
90 Wardour Street
London
W1F 0TQ
scanned from the original flyer.
An oddly marked pigeon has been hanging around our garden recently. When it first flew down, it looked for all the world like a very small seagull.
A master of disguise perhaps or a crisis of identity?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtWN1K21mSI
identity is the crisis can't you see
identity identity
when you look in the mirror
do you see yourself
do you see yourself
on the t.v. screen
do you see yourself in the magazine
when you see yourself
does it make you scream
when you look in the mirror
do you smash it quick
do you take the glass
and slash your wrists
did you do it for fame
did you do it in a fit
did you do it before
you read about it
Oh Bondage Up Yours -this must be one of the first mutual records of my then future wife and me - the big step of consolidating the records (and selling off the duplicates) was still a couple of years in the future.
This was about the only thing I could do today. I hope it didn't hurt me more. My girlfriend is supposed to come tomorrow with her table and work her magic.
My insurance won't let me get a lumbar MRI (remember that whole saga from last time?) until I've had 6 weeks of PT. Like I have the time and money. My chiro wanted me to go to ER for meds. And I just want to not hurt. I'm tired.
I was in the drive-through line at the bank today, and some (old, sorry) lady in front of me did what old ladies do, which is open their doors and lean through their windows anyway to reach the machine. And then, when the teller returned her things, she sat there for a long, long, long time. So I had to go in.
I limped and hobbled in, and I was waited on right away. I made a deposit, and then I cashed a $25 check. The teller said, "You just want this cashed?" I told her yes. The other teller said hi to me by name, and we chatted. The teller waiting on me just looked at my check. I said, "She knows me," and pointed to Miss Kim. She said, "Oh, that's not a problem. But I see here you don't do online banking."
I was incredulous. "What does that have to do with anything?" I asked.
"Oh, nothing."
"Because I was sitting outside behind an old lady, and I'm injured and can't walk, and you want me to stand here longer?"
Enjoy a little blast from my past. I know it cheered me right up. It didn't seem so ridiculous at the time.
Polly Styrene was a genius, warrior at woolworths, a rebel of the under ground, and I am a poseur and I don't care, I like to make people stare. Many years later they reunited, only the music was dreary consumer political drab-ble. too bad.
So excited to be sharing these x-rays again - for the first time in over 20 years. Robin Forster and I created them back in 1992, and they have just been beautifully restored by conservators.
These were exhibited in several high profile venues, including the National Gallery of Australia’s ground-breaking Art in the Age of AIDS exhibition (1994), and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Graphic Responses to AIDS (1996). We also created an experimental video using the x-rays which was screened at numerous international museum events and #LGBTQ film festivals.
We created the x-ray series of erotic encounters between men at a harrowing time when the AIDS crisis was at its peak and AIDS was considered by many to be an inevitable “punishment” for our lifestyles as gay men. In response we wanted our x-rays to picture a mocking carnival of anonymous skeletons lost in hedonistic pleasure. But we hope the beautiful smokiness of the x-rays also conveys a feel of tender eroticism, intimacy and love between men in the midst of the epidemic.
Robin and I collaborated as an art duo for 15 years (1989 - 2004) and even completed an MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art as a double act in 2001.
More x-rays to be posted soon, but in the meanwhile you can see the full set at www.barrett-forster.com
Robin Forster and I are excited to be sharing our newly restored x-ray series for the first time in over 20 years. View the full set at www.barrett-forster.com - Details about purchasing limited edition prints are available there too.
They were exhibited in several high profile venues, particularly the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ground-breaking Art in the Age of AIDS exhibition (1994), and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Graphic Responses to AIDS (1996). We also made an experimental video using the x-rays which was screened at numerous international museum events and LGBTQ+ film festivals.
Robin and I collaborated as an art duo for 15 years (1989 - 2004) and completed a Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art as a double act in 2001.
The alternative Queen's silver, golden and diamond jubilee concerts
This is the less-detailed, overview graph of everything we listened to in 2009. The resolution is 1439x788; about 1 megapixel, versus the 27.7 megapixel detail graph.
Basically, the Top 15 bands I listened to in 2009 are graphed at 2 week intervals, and normalized so the shape is approximately rectangular. I then hand-edited the labels to make them easier to read.
Most of our music habits were influenced by the 10 shows bands we saw in 2009, and you can actually correlate the graph with the dates of the shows we went to. When we get tickets for a concert, we throw that band's discography into our playlists until the concert. When the concert is over, it comes out of the playlist. This is very visible on the graph.
Major concerts this year included:
Kreator
Nine Inch Nails/Jane's Addiction
The Church
KMFDM
Pixies
And yes, I realize that all 5 of those concerts are pretty much completely different genres. [The closest 2 bands are KMFDM and NIN.]
P.S. Forgive the January discontinuity; a Winamp upgrade made my www.last.fm/user/ClintJCL plugin stop working, and I had to start using their 3rd party utility to log my tracks. It took me 2-4 weeks to notice I wasn't logging my songs.
www.last.fm/user/ClintJCL, bands, chart, music graph.
music: Agent Orange. music: Alex Skolnick Trio. music: Gwar. music: Hanson Brothers. music: KMFDM. music: Kreator. music: Nine Inch Nails. music: NoFX. music: Pixies. music: Screeching Weasel. music: The Church. music: Tiamat. music: Ween. music: X-Ray Spex.
top 15.
December 31, 2009.
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Robin Forster and I are excited to be sharing our newly restored x-ray series for the first time in over 20 years. Here’s one of our favourites, with a beautiful sensuous shadow of puckered lips. View the full set at www.barrett-forster.com - plenty of info about available prints there too.
They were exhibited in several high profile venues, particularly the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ground-breaking Art in the Age of AIDS exhibition (1994), and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Graphic Responses to AIDS (1996). We also made an experimental video using the x-rays which was screened at numerous international museum events and LGBTQ+ film festivals.
Robin and I collaborated as an art duo for 15 years (1989 - 2004) and completed a Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art as a double act in 2001.
Another mix...this one made while the novelty of being able to burn a CD was wearing off. (I made a mix about food once and put it in a sandwich bag between two pieces of white bread with a color copy of lettuce glue sticked onto the CD surface) This one had some sort of "spy theme" that lent itself to cassette...I think I had gotten a handful of fake "kids mustaches" at a yard sale and used them as an excuse to make spy packaging for a mix.
Thank you Poly Styrene, and X-Ray Spex
"The inimitable Poly Styrene, real name Marian Said-Elliot, is now at peace after her battle against cancer, leaving us for a higher place at the age of just 53 on Tuesday [April 25, 2011]"
thequietus.com/articles/06171-poly-styrene-obituary
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSrOJ1ig6tI
I clambered over mounds and mounds
Of polystyrene foam
And fell into a swimming pool
Filled with fairy snow
And watched the world turn day-glo
you know you know
The world turned day-glo you know
I wrenched the nylon curtains back
As far as they would go
And peered through perspex window panes
At the acrylic road
I drove my polypropolene
Car on wheels of sponge
Then pulled into a wimpy bar
To have a rubber bun
The X-rays were penetrating
Through the latex breeze
Synthetic fibre see-thru leaves
Fell from the rayon trees
from Street Talk fanzine, issue #1 (1977)
stillunusual.tumblr.com/post/170411793956/street-talk-fan...
Robin Forster and I are so excited to be sharing our newly restored x-ray series for the first time in over 20 years. Here’s one of our favourites, with a beautiful sensuous shadow of puckered lips. View the full set at www.barrett-forster.com - plenty of info about available prints there too.
They were exhibited in several high profile venues, particularly the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ground-breaking Art in the Age of AIDS exhibition (1994), and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Graphic Responses to AIDS (1996). We also made an experimental video using the x-rays which was screened at numerous international museum events and LGBTQ+ film festivals.
Robin and I collaborated as an art duo for 15 years (1989 - 2004) and completed a Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art as a double act in 2001.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch
X-Ray Spex, ‘Germ Free Adolescents’, 1978. Led by Poly Styrene this was sharp, poppy punk. With saxophone. Poly had a wail of a voice. Mixed race, bipolar and female, (with teeth braces). Not the usual Rock, Punk, or anything really, front person. In 1978 she freaked people out. She was a true one off. Dressed in charity shop garb she looked unique. She designed all the graphics for the band’s posters and record sleeves. Her lyrics spoke about identity, genetic engineering, the media and consumerism, often namechecking real products like Kleenex, but sugared the pill with infectious tunes, usually in under 3 minutes – classic pop. This wasn’t Clash rant.
The guitar is almost Black Sabbath riffage, the saxophone adds an extra layer of punch, but it’s Poly’s voice that seals the deal. Songs like ‘I Am Poseur’ and ‘Art-I-ficial’ look at image and media scrutiny. ‘Plastic Bag’ goes from slow to fast with big guitar whilst Poly describes her confusion at the world (“I dreamed I was Hitler”). ‘The Day the World Turned Day-Glo’ with a crunching riff, a proto Environmental protest about modern life and the rubbish it creates. ‘Warrior in Woolworths’ almost ska, sings about shopping and rebellion. ‘Let’s Submerge’ another riff about going underground and dropping out. ‘I Can’t Do Anything’ with handclaps and Glitter Band stomp about being useless in the eyes of the world. ‘Identity’ another heavy riff about, well, identity and media manipulation – every Media Studies student should be made to listen to it. ‘Genetic Engineering’ about, yes, you guessed it. This is years before Monsanto and cloning and Dolly the sheep, mind. ‘I Live Off You’ almost poppy about exploitation, with the best ‘la-la-la-la’ in Rock History, ever. ‘Germ Free Adolescents, the single, is slow with brooding sax, locking into teenage fear of their bodies and not fitting in.
Some of these songs cracked the Top 30 and the band made ‘Top of the Pops’, which was a big deal. Despite the lyrical content the songs smuggled in more punk thought and feeling than, say, a Sham 69. Poly Styrene sadly died of cancer aged 53 but, you wait, her stock will rise again as kids find her on Youtube. She looks and sounds like nothing else before or since. She helped shape the modern world just by being herself.
Robin Forster and I are excited to be sharing our newly restored x-ray series for the first time in over 20 years. View the full set at www.barrett-forster.com - Details about purchasing limited edition prints are available there too.
They were exhibited in several high profile venues, particularly the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ground-breaking Art in the Age of AIDS exhibition (1994), and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Graphic Responses to AIDS (1996). We also made an experimental video using the x-rays which was screened at numerous international museum events and LGBTQ+ film festivals.
Robin and I collaborated as an art duo for 15 years (1989 - 2004) and completed a Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art as a double act in 2001.