Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché

[Gimmix]

I'm a big fan of Poly and X-Ray Spex and have been waiting years for this to be released.

It's on Sky Arts (Freeview channel 11) on Saturday 6th March at 9pm.

Can't wait

p.s. the film's website says it's airing on the 5th but all the TV schedules say the 6th.

https://www.polystyrenefilm.net/

[Dr. Medulla]

I'm a big fan of Poly and X-Ray Spex and have been waiting years for this to be released.

It's on Sky Arts (Freeview channel 11) on Saturday 6th March at 9pm.

Can't wait

p.s. the film's website says it's airing on the 5th but all the TV schedules say the 6th.

https://www.polystyrenefilm.net/

Awesome. I'd started to believe that it wasn't going to come to pass. If you haven't checked out the biography of Poly (co-authored by her daughter), it's very illuminating and often heartbreaking.

[Gimmix]

I'm a big fan of Poly and X-Ray Spex and have been waiting years for this to be released.

It's on Sky Arts (Freeview channel 11) on Saturday 6th March at 9pm.

Can't wait

p.s. the film's website says it's airing on the 5th but all the TV schedules say the 6th.

https://www.polystyrenefilm.net/

Awesome. I'd started to believe that it wasn't going to come to pass. If you haven't checked out the biography of Poly (co-authored by her daughter), it's very illuminating and often heartbreaking.

Thanks for the tip off, I'll check it out.

[revbob]

I need to catch up on some of these. Gotta see this and the MacGowan one. The HR one was quite good.

[Kory]

Saw the trailer for this on Sunday, anxiously awaiting a way to watch it in the states.

[JennyB]

I'm a big fan of Poly and X-Ray Spex and have been waiting years for this to be released.

It's on Sky Arts (Freeview channel 11) on Saturday 6th March at 9pm.

Can't wait

p.s. the film's website says it's airing on the 5th but all the TV schedules say the 6th.

https://www.polystyrenefilm.net/

Awesome. I'd started to believe that it wasn't going to come to pass. If you haven't checked out the biography of Poly (co-authored by her daughter), it's very illuminating and often heartbreaking.

Thanks for the tip off, I'll check it out.

Thank you for this tip off. Also, I echo Doc's rec on the Poly bio. It's also visually stunning.

[Silent Majority]

Set the digital vcr to record this on Saturday. Poly plays an integral part in my novel, good to catch the doc for some background while I'm the revisions stage.

[Dr. Medulla]

Set the digital vcr to record this on Saturday. Poly plays an integral part in my novel, good to catch the doc for some background while I'm the revisions stage.

If she's actually a time-travelling alien sent to kill Hitler in 2020, you stole my idea, you bastard!

[Gimmix]

Thank you for this tip off. Also, I echo Doc's rec on the Poly bio. It's also visually stunning.

Pleasure. The bio on my reading list, I can look forward to that as well as the docu now!

Set the digital vcr to record this on Saturday. Poly plays an integral part in my novel, good to catch the doc for some background while I'm the revisions stage.

Intriguing, can you tell us more?

Set the digital vcr to record this on Saturday. Poly plays an integral part in my novel, good to catch the doc for some background while I'm the revisions stage.

If she's actually a time-travelling alien sent to kill Hitler in 2020, you stole my idea, you bastard!

If SM's novel isn't based around your idea then I look forward to reading your novel too. Oh no, hang on a minute...

[Dr. Medulla]

If SM's novel isn't based around your idea then I look forward to reading your novel too. Oh no, hang on a minute...

It won't be written until 1895 …

[Silent Majority]

Thank you for this tip off. Also, I echo Doc's rec on the Poly bio. It's also visually stunning.

Pleasure. The bio on my reading list, I can look forward to that as well as the docu now!

Set the digital vcr to record this on Saturday. Poly plays an integral part in my novel, good to catch the doc for some background while I'm the revisions stage.

Intriguing, can you tell us more?

Yeah it's an exciting project, man. It's about a modern day working class woman in her forties who gets a record player which allows the listener to go back in time to whenever the music was recorded for the 22 minutes of the side. One time. She uses it to try and save her sister who died of a drug overdose twenty years before. The first accidental trip back, a bit of fun before the story absolutely batters her, is an X Ray Spex bootleg and she attends the gig that she'd long loved. It's a section that's all about the fun of live music and sets up the rules.

The other half of the narrative is in mid twentieth century New Orleans, by the way, the tale of the African American music producer genius who built the magic player. I'm dead proud of it.

[Gimmix]

Thank you for this tip off. Also, I echo Doc's rec on the Poly bio. It's also visually stunning.

Pleasure. The bio on my reading list, I can look forward to that as well as the docu now!

Set the digital vcr to record this on Saturday. Poly plays an integral part in my novel, good to catch the doc for some background while I'm the revisions stage.

Intriguing, can you tell us more?

Yeah it's an exciting project, man. It's about a modern day working class woman in her forties who gets a record player which allows the listener to go back in time to whenever the music was recorded for the 22 minutes of the side. One time. She uses it to try and save her sister who died of a drug overdose twenty years before. The first accidental trip back, a bit of fun before the story absolutely batters her, is an X Ray Spex bootleg and she attends the gig that she'd long loved. It's a section that's all about the fun of live music and sets up the rules.

The other half of the narrative is in mid twentieth century New Orleans, by the way, the tale of the African American music producer genius who built the magic player. I'm dead proud of it.

Interesting concept mate, I think that if I had the chance to go back in time that I'd go to a gig. It'd be a bastard to have to choose only one gig though.

[Silent Majority]

Thank you for this tip off. Also, I echo Doc's rec on the Poly bio. It's also visually stunning.

Pleasure. The bio on my reading list, I can look forward to that as well as the docu now!

Set the digital vcr to record this on Saturday. Poly plays an integral part in my novel, good to catch the doc for some background while I'm the revisions stage.

Intriguing, can you tell us more?

Yeah it's an exciting project, man. It's about a modern day working class woman in her forties who gets a record player which allows the listener to go back in time to whenever the music was recorded for the 22 minutes of the side. One time. She uses it to try and save her sister who died of a drug overdose twenty years before. The first accidental trip back, a bit of fun before the story absolutely batters her, is an X Ray Spex bootleg and she attends the gig that she'd long loved. It's a section that's all about the fun of live music and sets up the rules.

The other half of the narrative is in mid twentieth century New Orleans, by the way, the tale of the African American music producer genius who built the magic player. I'm dead proud of it.

Interesting concept mate, I think that if I had the chance to go back in time that I'd go to a gig. It'd be a bastard to have to choose only one gig though.

I would love to see some live music in the future now!

[Dr. Medulla]

Yeah it's an exciting project, man. It's about a modern day working class woman in her forties who gets a record player which allows the listener to go back in time to whenever the music was recorded for the 22 minutes of the side. One time. She uses it to try and save her sister who died of a drug overdose twenty years before. The first accidental trip back, a bit of fun before the story absolutely batters her, is an X Ray Spex bootleg and she attends the gig that she'd long loved. It's a section that's all about the fun of live music and sets up the rules.

The other half of the narrative is in mid twentieth century New Orleans, by the way, the tale of the African American music producer genius who built the magic player. I'm dead proud of it.

Holy crap, I wasn't completely off-base with the time travel joke. Have you ever read Scarlett Thomas' The End of Mr. Y? It's a novel that plays around (maybe) with the same kind of stuff you're describing.

Also, I'm intrigued by your premise in part because my long-ago abandoned novel idea—abandoned because I can't write fiction to save my life—was something I called Winterland. The idea was of a pre-slacker character attending the Pistols' Winterland show and being haunted throughout his life by the line, "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" He realizes that his life has been cheated, but can't figure it out. The novel would have been this quixotic quest for who or what had cheated his life. A very Gen X futile rage kind of thing.

[JennyB]

Thank you for this tip off. Also, I echo Doc's rec on the Poly bio. It's also visually stunning.

Pleasure. The bio on my reading list, I can look forward to that as well as the docu now!

Set the digital vcr to record this on Saturday. Poly plays an integral part in my novel, good to catch the doc for some background while I'm the revisions stage.

Intriguing, can you tell us more?

Yeah it's an exciting project, man. It's about a modern day working class woman in her forties who gets a record player which allows the listener to go back in time to whenever the music was recorded for the 22 minutes of the side. One time. She uses it to try and save her sister who died of a drug overdose twenty years before. The first accidental trip back, a bit of fun before the story absolutely batters her, is an X Ray Spex bootleg and she attends the gig that she'd long loved. It's a section that's all about the fun of live music and sets up the rules.

The other half of the narrative is in mid twentieth century New Orleans, by the way, the tale of the African American music producer genius who built the magic player. I'm dead proud of it.

James - I want to read this! When can we get our hands on it?