
I am a Cliche: The Life and Identity of Poly Styrene
By Beth Reeves I remember the exact moment I fell in love with the X-Ray Spex. Somewhere back in the late 90’s sitting there in my grandparents’s living room, my neighbor Chris DiTommaso came over to hang out after school. He, so very much like myself, found salvage in music and especially our fast and ever growing love for punk rock. I’ll never forget as right then he opened his backpack and pulled out a tape and put it on and pushed play. Over my stereo came the first words