The late Poly Styrene (Marianne Joan Elliott-Said), who sang with the British punk act X-Ray Spex, probably hasn’t gotten the credit she’s deserved. A feminist punk icon before there were feminist ...

In March 2017, Celeste Bell, the daughter of late punk trailblazer Poly Styrene, along with writer Zoë Howe and director Paul Sng, launched a crowdfunding campaign to create a documentary about ...

The film, co-directed by Paul Sng and named after the song "I Am A Cliché" — a single originally released alongside "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" that appeared on the 1991 re-release of the band's 1978 debut ...

Celeste Bell, the daughter of X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene, opens her documentary “Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche” with a simple question: Was her punk rock icon mother a good parent? It comes as no ...

In point of fact Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour to front a pop band in the UK. So in spite of X-Ray Spex only ever releasing one album Poly Styrene's influence on pop music can't be ...

“My mother was a punk rock icon,” Celeste Bell intones offscreen as her mum watches herself on a wall of televisions in the first few seconds of her unique and affecting new documentary, Poly Styrene: ...

Poly Styrene was the UK’s first woman of color to front a rock band. “The world is playing catch-up with Poly Styrene — not the other way around,” a fitting line from Celeste Bell, daughter of the ...

Male fans and the music press wanted her to be a punky sex kitten thrashing around on stage, but she was always more thoughtful in her lyrics, which touched on slavery, gender stereotypes, genetic ...

In this new documentary, Poly Styrene’s daughter grapples tenderly with the legacy of her punk rock mother. By Lisa Kennedy When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our ...

How do you make a documentary about your own mother? And how do you tell that story when you grew up in an unstable environment, with a fractured relationship? That’s the challenge that Celeste Bell ...

Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011), known by the stage name Poly Styrene, was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex. She was ...