Bad Copy

Host Jason Schreurs welcomes Celeste Bell, co-director of the documentary film Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché and daughter of the influential X-Ray Spex singer. We discuss Poly’s life with bipolar and how it informed her music and writing in the London punk scene and beyond.

Featured song clips:
X-Ray Spex – “I Am a Cliché” from Germfree Adolescents (Caroline Records reissue, 1991)
X-Ray Spex – “Oh Bondage Up Yours!” from Germfree Adolescents (Caroline Records reissue, 1991)
1978 TV interview clip from Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
X-Ray Spex – “Plastic Bag” from Germfree Adolescents (EMI, 1978)
X-Ray Spex – “Identity” from Germfree Adolescents (EMI, 1978)