X-ray Spex - Live at The Roundhouse London 2008 (signed CD)
The first release on Future Noise Music's imprint Year Zero, Live At The Roundhouse is a brand new CD/DVD from seminal Punk band X-Ray Spex recorded at the band's sell out comeback concert in 2008.
Includes a complete performance of their classic album, Germ Free Adolescents.
A limited signed edition is also available.
“One of the most inventive, original and genuinely exciting groups to emerge during punk”. The Virgin Encyclopaedia of Popular Music
1 Oh Bondage Up Yours! (3.04)
2 Art-i-ficial (3.09)
3 Obsessed With You (2.39)
4 Warrior In Woolworths (2.51)
5 Crystal Clear (4.16)
6 Let’s Submerge (3.14)
7 I Am A Cliché (1.58)
8 I Can’t Do Anything (2.50)
9 Identity (2.29)
10 Melancholy (3.44)
11 Genetic Engineering (2.13)
12 Highly Inflammable (2.20)
13 I Live Off You (2.21)
14 I Am A Poseur (3.02)
15 Germ Free Adolescents (3.17)
16 Junk Food Junkie (2.56)
17 Bloody War (2.26)
18 Cigarettes (2.23)
19 The Day The World Turned Day-Glo (3.05)
20 Encore – Oh Bondage Up Yours! (3.49)
Notes
X-Ray Spex first live outing since 1979, this performance saw original members Poly Styrene and bassist Paul Dean joined by friends Sid Truelove (Rubella Ballet, Flux of Pink Indians), Gt. Saxby (Poptones) and Flash (Rip Rig & Panic, Jah Wobble, The Slits) at London’s legendary Roundhouse on 6th September 2008.
In 1976 X-Ray Spex were formed by Poly Styrene placing an ad in NME and Melody Maker for “Young Punx Who Want To Stick It Together”. The combination of tough, razor sharp riffs, kooky sax lines and Poly Styrene’s eccentric voice and lyrics were perfect. Their 1978/79 career was all too brief - a handful of memorable hit singles, (Oh Bondage, Up Yours!, The Day The World Turned Day-Glo), followed by the anthemic Identity, the atmospheric Germ Free Adolescents and the final spring 1979 release, Highly Inflammable. Versions of all these songs are featured on Live At The Roundhouse, alongside previously unreleased track new track Bloody War.
X-Ray Spex transcended punk, influencing a whole new scene of indie bands and post- Riot Grrrl rockers like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Gossip. The band’s innate strangeness and crafted song-writing makes them as relevant now as they were then.
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"Poly Styrene's vocals have the same flash and attack they did when X-ray Spex first release Germ Free Adolescents." - DVD Blue Ray Review
"The old ingredients present, correct & delivered with a well drilled precision" - Record Collector
"Offers a visceral thrill" - Classic Rock
"Poly Styrene sounds great throughout" - Artrocker
