X-RAY SPEX - Oh Bondage... Up Yours! 7'' 1977

This is an unofficial release from Art-I-Ficial Products (2016) of the bands debut 7Inch with two, I think, different versions as on the original record and came in three different vinyl colors in a limited edition. X-Ray Spex were formed 1976 in London and during their first incarnation (1976–1979), they released five singles and one album. Their 1977 single Oh Bondage Up Yours! and debut album Germfree Adolescents (1978) are widely acclaimed as classic Punk releases. (Today, the 7Inch is regarded as their most enduring artefact, both as a piece of music and as a sort of Proto-Grrrl catchphrase. Opening with the spoken/screamed line, "Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard but I think oh, bondage, up yours!", the song could be interpreted as a premonition of the Riot Grrrl movement fifteen years later, although Styrene herself insists it was more intended as an anti-consumerist/anti-capitalist jingle, and was not exclusively feminist in nature). After singer Poly Styrene left in 1979 to pursue other interests the band auditioned for a new singer and changed their name to Classix Nouveaux.

In 1991, X-Ray Spex reformed for a surprise sell-out gig at the Brixton Academy, where Poly appeared in a blue foam dress with an army helmet (to her regret). The group reformed again in 1995 with a line-up of Styrene, Dean and Logic to release a new album Conscious Consumer. Although heralded as the first in a trilogy, the album was not a commercial success. Styrene later explained that touring and promotional work suffered an abrupt end when she was run over by a fire engine in central London, suffering a fractured pelvis. The following year X-Ray Spex played at the 20th Anniversary of Punk Festival in Blackpool minus PolyStyrene, overcoming her last-minute decision to withdraw by recruiting a replacement female singer named Poly Filla. The band disbanded, but later releases include a compilation of the group's early records, a live album, and an anthology of all the aforementioned. The band including original bass player Paul Dean, played what was described as a raucous comeback gig and in front of an audience of 3000 full at the Roundhouse in London on 6 September 2008. The gig consisted of Germfree Adolescents in its entirety, with the exception of "Plastic Bag". PolyStyrene died of spinal and breast cancer on 25. April 2011 in East Sussex at the age of 53. X-Ray Spex were one of the most inventive, original and genuinely exciting groups to during the early British Punk era. (source: wikipedia)

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