Celeste Bell of Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

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.

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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 Cliche
X-Ray Spex - "Plastic Bag" from Germfree Adolescents (EMI, 1978)
X-Ray Spex - "Identity" from Germfree Adolescents (EMI, 1978)

Intro/background music clips:
Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache"
Render Useless - "The Second Flight of Icarus"

Contact host Jason Schreurs - screamtherapypodcast@gmail.com