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DIARY OF THE SEVENTIES BY POLY STYRENE ©2005
-No.4-
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"DAY SEVEN"
The infamous ROXY club in Neal Street, Covent Garden, London WC1.
Jon Savage, X-RAY SPEX manager Falcon Stuart and I drop in to
check out the ‘talent’, names that scream out, Billy Idol & Generation X, The Buzzcocks,
Siouxsie & The Banshees, Captain Sensible & The Damned, Johnny Moped & Chrisie Hynde,
Patti Palladin & Judy Nylon, Ari-Up & The Slits, Knox & The Vibrators, Dee Generate,
Alternative TV, Gaye Advert & The Adverts, Bruno Wizard and the Rejects.
A cutting edge show case to an audience of spiky tops with studded dog collars
and girls on leashes in ripped & torn fishnet stockings, school blazers and vamp make-up.
Stuart and Savage chat to Andy and Susan the proprietors of the ROXY, while I go to the loo.
Tracy a sales assistant from Seditionaries crouches on the floor
in a corner of the ladies powder room scratching, slashing her wrists with a razor.
Dazed and confused I return to the dance floor to meet Savage, Stuart, Susan and Andy.
Poly Styrene & X-RAY SPEX are booked for the following week.
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IDENTITY
IDENTITY
IS THE CRISIS
CAN’T YOU SEE
INDENTITY IDENTITY
WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR
DO YOU SEE YOURSELF
DO YOU SEE YOURSELF
ON THE TV 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 FOR FAME
DID YOU DO IT IN A FIT
DID YOU DO IT BEFORE
YOU READ ABOUT IT
Poly Styrene (c) 1977
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"DAY EIGHT"
HEAVEN soul club under the arches at Charring Cross, London.
New Years Eve Party! Party!
Party girls in jelly shoes, black plastic bin liners slashed at the bottom,
to create a neck line, worn as a party dress with added tinsel boa.
I felt stiff, by comparison in damson cotton velvet,
drain pipe jeans, white fluffy mohair jumper and fifties retro stiletto’s.
Met Sophia Horgan, young fashion student, looked like she just stepped out of a Space Odyssey,
we become friends. Sophie designs my first punky haute couture foam zip dress,
I picked up some goggles, from army surplus store,
Lawrence’s Corner and borrowed one of Stuart's toys, a green tin army helmet.
Couldn’t be better for my first stage performance.
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PLASTIC BAG
1977 AND WE ARE GOING MAD
IT’S 1977 AND WE’VE SEEN TOO MANY ADS
1977 AND WE’RE GONNA SHOW THEM ALL
THAT APATHY’S A DRAG
MY MIND IS LIKE A PLASTIC BAG
THAT CORRESPONDS TO ALL THOSE ADS
IT SUCKS UP ALL THE RUBBISH
THAT IS FED IN THROUGH BY EAR
I EAT KLEENEX FOR BREAKFAST
AND USE SOFT HYGIENIC WEETABIX
TO DRY MY TEARS
MY MIND IS LIKE A SWITCHBOARD
WITH CROSSED AND TANGLED LINES
CONTENTED WITH CONFUSION
THAT IS PLUGGED INTO MY HEAD
I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON
IT’S THE OPERATOR’S JOB
NOT MINE, I SAID
MY DREAMS I DAREN’T REMEMBER
OR TELL YOU WHAT I’VE SEEN
I DREAMT THAT I WAS HITLER
THE RULER OF THE SEA
THE RULER OF THE UNIVERSE
THE RULER OF THE SUPERMARKETS
AND EVEN FATALISTIC ME
Poly Styrene (c) 1977
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