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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché (Courtesy of Poly Doc Ltd.) Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché SXSW screening: Tuesday, March 16, 10-11:36am SXSW panel: Tuesday, March 16, 8:30-9pm X-Ray Spex singer and punk maverick Poly Styrene (born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said) intended to publish a book of diary entries in her final years. Following her death from cancer in 2011, daughter Celeste Bell inherited management of her mother's pioneering legacy, leading to the 2019 coffeetable read Dayglo!: The Poly Styrene Story. The artwork, writings, and family ties now coalesce in Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, debu...

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“3 July 1976, Hastings Pier. It’s my birthday and I’ll party if I want to.” Marianne Joan Elliott-Said is attending a Sex Pistols gig on her 19th birthday. “I stand centre point in an almost empty ballroom; three Swedish babes stared at Johnny.” Inspired by Rotten and co, the teenager decides to form her own band and places an ad in Melody Maker: “Young punx who want to stick it together,” she writes. She adopts a new moniker from the Yellow Pages – a send up of popstar attributes (plastic, disposable) – and shortly after, Poly Styrene and her band X-Ray Spex are playing ...

TV Editor Tonight's top telly includes Tommy Tiernan (of course!), Dave Allen, Ant & Dec, Carly Simon, Poly Styrene and some cracking movies . . . Pick of the Day Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, 7.00pm, Virgin Media One It’s not the same as it used to be - sure, what is? - but this show is still a fun lift of a Saturday evening. Comedian and actor Rob Delaney is this week's guest announcer, TV presenter Davina McCall (below) is the latest victim of Get Out of Me Ear, and singer Tom Jones is in the studio for an End of the Show Show with a difference.

You didn’t pick your mother’s biggest hit, “Oh Bondage Up Yours!” Celeste Bell: There are so many gems that are lesser-known. So instead, you’ve chosen that single’s B-side. Celeste Bell: There’s a bit where it goes, “Yama, yama, yama, yama, yama, yama, boredom, boredom, boring boredom”. She was probably like, “This is fucking boring” as she was writing the song, and just put that in. I think it’s genius in how rushed it is, and how little thought went into it. In the documentary, your mother talks about how, around this time, as a mixed-race woman, she felt like an ...