andrewtsks:

X Ray Spex - Oh Bondage, Up Yours

This footage was shot by Don Letts at the Roxy in 1977, and included in his film The Punk Rock Movie. When I was 13 a friend of mine had a VHS copy of that film, and I borrowed it and made an audio cassette of the songs on it, using my dad’s stereo to dub from the audio track of our VCR to a cassette deck. This was the first version of “Oh Bondage, Up Yours” that I ever heard, and still the one I’m most used to. It’s the original lineup playing here, with Lora Logic on saxophone, before she left to form Essential Logic and was replaced by Rudi Thomson. This version is raw and not fully formed, but I’ve always loved its energy, and have never really gotten used to the more technically proficient studio version from the later single. That shit is good too, don’t get me wrong, but this is just awesome.