The Day the World Turned Day-Glo!
X-Ray Spex, Camden, Sep 6 2008
"...some people think little girls should be seen and not heard - but I think: Oh Bondage Up Yours! 1,2,3,4..."
The sax kicked in, and for the following hour those present were treated to virtually all of the X-Ray Spex canon of material, from the 1st single through most of their classic "Germfree Adolescents" album from 1978. Although only Poly and Paul are extant from the original line-up, the band delivered a solid, spirited performance that echoed the sounds of old, possibly more.
With barely an hours worth of material, the set was over all too soon, but the capacity crowd at Camden's Roundhouse left sated from what many thought would surely never transpire - Poly Styrene once more singing socially-aware lyrics as relevant today as then:
"Identity, is the crisis can't you see? Identity, Identity!"