0:00:26 > 0:00:30'Identity is the crisis, can't you see?
0:00:30 > 0:00:33'When you look in the mirror, do you see yourself?
0:00:33 > 0:00:36'Do you see yourself on the TV screen?
0:00:36 > 0:00:39'Do you see yourself in the magazine?
0:00:39 > 0:00:42'When you see yourself, does it make you scream?
0:00:42 > 0:00:45'When you look in the mirror, do you smash it quick?
0:00:45 > 0:00:48'Do you take the glass and slash your wrists?
0:00:48 > 0:00:51'Did you do it for fame, did you do it in a fit?'
0:00:51 > 0:00:58# Did you do it before you can write about i-i-it?
0:01:01 > 0:01:03# Identity
0:01:03 > 0:01:05# Is the crisis
0:01:05 > 0:01:07# Can't you see?
0:01:07 > 0:01:10# Identity
0:01:10 > 0:01:19# Identity-y-y-y
0:01:19 > 0:01:21# Yeah! #
0:01:25 > 0:01:28CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:01:31 > 0:01:34CHANTING: We want Poly! We want Poly!
0:01:34 > 0:01:39I chose the name Poly Styrene because it's a lightweight, disposable product.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42'Art-i-ficial!'
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Yeah, it sounded all right
0:01:44 > 0:01:48because I thought it was a send-up of being a pop star,
0:01:48 > 0:01:52like a little figure, not me, being polystyrene.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Just plastic, disposable.
0:01:55 > 0:02:02That's what pop stars all meant to me and so therefore, I thought I might as well send it up.
0:02:03 > 0:02:09'In the last half century, science has devised an entirely new family of materials - plastics.'
0:02:09 > 0:02:13# I know I'm artificial
0:02:13 > 0:02:16# But don't put the blame on me
0:02:16 > 0:02:19# I was reared with appliances
0:02:19 > 0:02:22# In a consumer society
0:02:25 > 0:02:28# Existence is elusive
0:02:28 > 0:02:31# The kind that is supported
0:02:31 > 0:02:35# By mechanical resources
0:02:37 > 0:02:39# Existence is elusive
0:02:39 > 0:02:42# The kind that is supported
0:02:42 > 0:02:46# By mechanical resources... #
0:02:48 > 0:02:54At one stage, I mean, I was much more absorbed by being Poly Styrene and playing that role
0:02:54 > 0:02:58because I liked the character and I thought it was fun,
0:02:58 > 0:03:01but now I'm much more like just Marianne Elliott.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05# In a consumer society
0:03:05 > 0:03:11# In a consumer society
0:03:14 > 0:03:17# I wanna be instamatic
0:03:17 > 0:03:20# I wanna be a frozen pea
0:03:20 > 0:03:23# I wanna be dehydrated
0:03:23 > 0:03:27# In a consumer society
0:03:27 > 0:03:30# In a consumer society
0:03:30 > 0:03:37# In a consumer society-y-y... #
0:03:39 > 0:03:43# Just bring a little Sunlight into everything! #
0:03:43 > 0:03:47'New Sunlight Lemon Liquid for that bright and happy sparkle!'
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Hello. Now I'm testing the Electrolux Automatic 345.
0:03:52 > 0:03:59'My mind is like a plastic bag that corresponds to all those ads.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03'It sucks up all the rubbish that is fed in through my ear.
0:04:03 > 0:04:09'I eat Kleenex for breakfast and use soft, hygienic Weetabix to dry my tears.'
0:04:09 > 0:04:13'Whatever you're buying for your home, look in Yellow Pages first.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17'You'll find what you're looking for so much quicker.'
0:04:17 > 0:04:19I got my name from the Yellow Pages.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22# Let your fingers do the walking... #
0:04:22 > 0:04:26Can that be limper? Can we try it just a bit more...?
0:04:27 > 0:04:29'I am a poseur and I don't care.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32'I like to make people stare.'
0:04:32 > 0:04:34And just again here.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39'When I was about five or six,
0:04:39 > 0:04:44'I used to have a big trunk and all the clothes in there used to come from jumble sales.
0:04:44 > 0:04:50'And I used to play dressing up. And I used to make up with my powder paints.'
0:04:50 > 0:04:54Where's the happiness in your life gone? That's good.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57Right, down to the light. Good.
0:04:57 > 0:05:01Now you've got that naughty look, you see.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05You see, that's what I was after.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09Now, if you could stop and stamp and turn and face me...
0:05:09 > 0:05:12'I am a poseur and I don't care.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14'I like to make people stare.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17'My facade is just a fake.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20'Shock, horror, no escape.'
0:05:27 > 0:05:32# I know you're antiseptic, your... #
0:05:32 > 0:05:34BACKING TRACK PLAYS
0:05:36 > 0:05:40Can you hear anything? I can't hear myself.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43I can a bit now, but I couldn't then.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46- FAINT: - Can you hear me now?- Yeah.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52# Her phobia is infection... #
0:05:52 > 0:05:56Can you turn the track down a bit for me on my headphones?
0:05:57 > 0:06:01- Do you want everything all down? - Yeah, it's just too loud.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03BACKING TRACK CONTINUES
0:06:07 > 0:06:10# She's a germ-free adolescent
0:06:10 > 0:06:14# Cleanliness is her obsession
0:06:14 > 0:06:18# Cleans her teeth ten times a day
0:06:18 > 0:06:22# Scrub away, scrub away, scrub away the SR... #
0:06:26 > 0:06:32'I wanted to have a total obsession about synthetic things in the modern world,
0:06:32 > 0:06:34'so therefore, I dressed to, you know, fit.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38'It went with the name and the songs and everything.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40'I just wanted it to be inter-related.'
0:06:54 > 0:06:57'Clothes are never really you.
0:06:57 > 0:07:02'That's why people wear them because you can just create an image with clothes.
0:07:02 > 0:07:08'They're just part of a facade which is good fun to play with sometimes.'
0:07:14 > 0:07:17It's got holes all over it.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22Oh, come on, darling. I mean, you know, this is Hollywood.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24SHE GIGGLES
0:07:24 > 0:07:27Put that on. Try it on. Even I might too.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31- Yeah, you should try it on. - No, it's your movie, hon.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34This is your life.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40ELECTRIC GUITAR INTRO: "I Can't Do Anything" - X-Ray Spex
0:07:55 > 0:07:58# I can't read and I can't spell
0:07:58 > 0:08:01# I can't even get to hell
0:08:01 > 0:08:04# I can't love and I can't hate
0:08:04 > 0:08:08# I can't even hesitate
0:08:08 > 0:08:11# I can't dance and I can't walk
0:08:11 > 0:08:14# I can't even try to talk...
0:08:27 > 0:08:29# Freddy tried to strangle me
0:08:29 > 0:08:32# With my plastic popper beads
0:08:32 > 0:08:35# But I hit him back
0:08:35 > 0:08:39# With my pet rat
0:08:39 > 0:08:42# Yeah, I hit him back
0:08:42 > 0:08:45# With my pet rat... #
0:08:48 > 0:08:50PLAYS GENTLE NOTES
0:08:54 > 0:08:58There are certain times when you just want to hide.
0:08:58 > 0:09:03You don't want people to start looking at you or see you or anything like that.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05You just want to be on your own.
0:09:07 > 0:09:14I mean, it isn't normal for people to be surrounded with people telling them that they're great.
0:09:14 > 0:09:18That isn't a normal situation. Most people do not get that.
0:09:18 > 0:09:23It isn't normal to be up on stage and people jumping all over you and ripping your clothes off.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26That isn't a normal thing for anybody to take.
0:09:26 > 0:09:32And then you get people coming backstage as well and then you get people coming to your house.
0:09:32 > 0:09:37Then you get people trying to break in and then you get people surrounding you all the time.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41You just are never on your own and that is just not normal,
0:09:41 > 0:09:44so you just say, "Go away, I don't want to see anybody."
0:09:44 > 0:09:46And because they think you are a performer
0:09:46 > 0:09:52and you are supposed to be this thing that does all these... entertains everybody,
0:09:52 > 0:09:58they think that you must be having a nervous breakdown because you don't want to see anybody.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01But you're not. You're just being perfectly normal,
0:10:01 > 0:10:05just saying, you know, "I want to be by myself."
0:10:11 > 0:10:14'My mind is like a switchboard
0:10:14 > 0:10:16'with crossed and tangled lines.
0:10:16 > 0:10:20'Contented with confusion that is plugged into my head.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23'I don't know what's going on.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26' "It's the operator's job, not mine," I said.'
0:10:29 > 0:10:32# She wants to be a woman, wants to be a man
0:10:32 > 0:10:35# She wants to be a woman, wants to be a man
0:10:35 > 0:10:39# She wants to be a woman, wants to be a man
0:10:39 > 0:10:43# She wants to be a woman, wants to be a man
0:10:43 > 0:10:48# She wants to join the hermaphrodite clan... #
0:10:48 > 0:10:51BANGING OF DRUMS
0:10:51 > 0:10:54Yeah, OK, we're going straight into E.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56E, yes.
0:10:56 > 0:11:00Just like the beginning. Just like the beginning.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04GUITAR AND SAX INTRO
0:11:22 > 0:11:24# Inflammable, waiting to explode
0:11:24 > 0:11:28# He needs another dose of silicone
0:11:28 > 0:11:31# Wants to be a woman, wants to be a man
0:11:31 > 0:11:37# He wants to join the hermaphrodite cla-a-an
0:11:37 > 0:11:40# Influenced by the fashion pages
0:11:40 > 0:11:44# Influenced by others' phases
0:11:44 > 0:11:47# It ain't hip if you are hetero
0:11:47 > 0:11:51# You're a pseudo homo intellectual... #
0:11:52 > 0:11:55'I started writing when I was about 12.
0:11:55 > 0:12:00'I suppose they were kind of thoughts and just clearing out my thoughts.'
0:12:05 > 0:12:09- Just like the beginning.- Yeah, at the beginning, we start in E.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13I started in E, but we're in different keys.
0:12:13 > 0:12:17- You are.- So from that F then, you want to go into the E straight away?- Yeah.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20THEY PLAY INTRO
0:12:23 > 0:12:25- That's E, right?- Right.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29E, that's what I was doing, right? Then I changed. It wasn't the...
0:12:30 > 0:12:32Let's do it again.
0:12:34 > 0:12:39'Basically, I just find one word and then I write the rest around the word.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42'And Identity is just...
0:12:42 > 0:12:48'It's like everything. You don't think it's about you at the time, but then it could be about you.'
0:12:50 > 0:12:52I've got them. They're really great.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58Hang on, hang on. Let me show you.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03- Oh, wow!- Oh, terrific. - Far out.- Really nice.
0:13:03 > 0:13:08'I like writing because I can write by myself. I can just go away and write.
0:13:08 > 0:13:13'Just alone and then the rest is a series of compromises with other people.'
0:13:17 > 0:13:19They're all great.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30'At 15, I went and got a job,
0:13:30 > 0:13:34'buying clothes for the shops, but I was just sort of learning.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36'A junior.
0:13:36 > 0:13:41'Then I left home and I just went hitching all the way round England.
0:13:44 > 0:13:49'I just felt that I wanted to do something else and I didn't know what I wanted to do exactly,
0:13:49 > 0:13:53'so I thought I'd just go away and just think about things by myself.
0:13:57 > 0:14:03'Then I thought I wanted to be in a band, so I just decided to get a band together.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07'I just put an advert in Melody Maker
0:14:07 > 0:14:10'for "young punks who want to stick it together".
0:14:10 > 0:14:12'Then that's just how it started.'
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Stuck in a van...
0:14:18 > 0:14:23# Why did you ever let me down? Why did you ever let me... #
0:14:23 > 0:14:25If it's a jam like this all the way,
0:14:25 > 0:14:27all the way to Birmingham...
0:14:29 > 0:14:32- We're going to Liverpool, though. - Oh, all right.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35- RADIO: - 'That was The Buzzcocks.
0:14:35 > 0:14:41'This is X-Ray Spex and a version of the song which is on the B-side of the current single, called Age.'
0:14:41 > 0:14:43ELECTRIC GUITAR INTRO
0:14:43 > 0:14:45That's all right.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48'Well, I don't really want to go on touring for ever.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52'I would never be doing anything like this when I was old.
0:14:52 > 0:14:57'There's lots of other things I'd like to do like writing and things like that.'
0:14:58 > 0:15:01# Age, she's so afraid
0:15:01 > 0:15:03# Age, she's not the rage
0:15:03 > 0:15:05# Age, she's so afraid
0:15:05 > 0:15:08# Age, she's not the rage
0:15:08 > 0:15:10# She never seems to realise
0:15:10 > 0:15:13# Celluloid beauty never dies
0:15:13 > 0:15:16# Shivering in silhouette
0:15:16 > 0:15:19# Curtsey for the minuet... #
0:15:20 > 0:15:25'Actually to have to go out on the road, I don't particularly enjoy that,
0:15:25 > 0:15:27'especially when you just go to...
0:15:27 > 0:15:32'You travel all that way, all those miles to go to some really small, little club
0:15:32 > 0:15:36'and only about a hundred people sort of are there,
0:15:36 > 0:15:42'which is OK if you really enjoy it, but once you've done it a few times, it's just boring.'
0:15:42 > 0:15:46- I think you can take a short cut here.- You can't go down there.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49- Ask the taxi driver. - That's a good idea.
0:15:49 > 0:15:55Liverpool Street, I think it's called. Or London Street. I know it begins with an L.
0:15:55 > 0:16:00- Excuse me. Do you know where Eric's is?- We don't know where we are. That's the point.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Lost in Liverpool!
0:16:02 > 0:16:05- Where's the station? - The station is over there.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09It's that way, that way, that way or just down there.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11To the left.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14- Are these the lights you remember? - Yeah, this looks...
0:16:14 > 0:16:18This one here, look. You see where it says...? Yeah, right here.
0:16:20 > 0:16:25You come down the hill and it's down here on the left or on the right.
0:16:25 > 0:16:30- Oh!- What?- It's all right.- There was a dog running out.- I thought it was going to get run over.
0:16:30 > 0:16:36- Where is it? Is it over there? - No, it's up there.- It's up here! - All right, all right.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39One of these dingy doors.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44What's all this then? Are they expecting a riot?
0:16:45 > 0:16:47- Where's Steve?- This is great.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52PLAYS A FEW NOTES
0:16:52 > 0:16:55ELECTRIC GUITAR JOINS IN
0:16:58 > 0:17:03- Steve, we'd better go and take Poly to the hotel. - Hello, monitor check, one, two.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05It's Elliott and Stuart.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07OK, thanks.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10- Where is it?- It's just through the fire door there.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14- It's the police!- Is this better?
0:17:14 > 0:17:19- Yeah, hang on a minute, lads, while we get a few more in here. - Hold on. We're stuck!
0:17:19 > 0:17:20LAUGHTER
0:17:21 > 0:17:26'Properties of the "polys" like polyethylene and polyester
0:17:26 > 0:17:29'or polyvinyl chloride puts the "hi" in "hi-fi".'
0:17:30 > 0:17:33What's this? Tomorrow's World or something?
0:17:33 > 0:17:37I don't know what programme it is. I just turned it on.
0:17:43 > 0:17:48I want one of those. You see shops in town where they've got all those fancy telephones.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51No, I haven't seen that shop.
0:17:51 > 0:17:56There's one amazing one. It's got all the workings of a telephone inside this huge glass dome.
0:17:56 > 0:18:02You plunge your hand in and pull out the receiver and when you dial, you can see all the bits inside.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07He now wants us on at 11, so I said he'd have to wait...
0:18:07 > 0:18:12'I'm like an actress, so on stage I'm one thing and off stage I'm something else.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14'But most people are not.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17'They just perform all the time.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21'I just consider myself as a person first
0:18:21 > 0:18:25'and anything else what anybody else might call you,
0:18:25 > 0:18:28'well, they're just names, really, aren't they,
0:18:28 > 0:18:33'just given to trends and people and things like that.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39'It's dark and eerie and it's really late.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43'Come on, kids, don't hesitate.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45'We're going down to the underground.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48'The subterranean is a bottomless pit.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51'The vinyl vultures are after it.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54'Molten lava, sulphur vapours,
0:18:54 > 0:18:56'smoulder on to obliterate us.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00'If you've got the urge, come on, let's submerge.'
0:19:00 > 0:19:02CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:19:06 > 0:19:08SHOUTING
0:19:10 > 0:19:13CHEERING
0:19:21 > 0:19:24Art-i-ficial!
0:19:26 > 0:19:28THRASHING GUITAR INTRO
0:19:45 > 0:19:48# I know I'm artificial
0:19:48 > 0:19:51# But don't put the blame on me
0:19:51 > 0:19:54# I was reared with appliances
0:19:54 > 0:19:57# In a consumer society
0:19:57 > 0:20:03# In a consumer society
0:20:04 > 0:20:07# My existence is elusive
0:20:07 > 0:20:10# The kind that is supported
0:20:10 > 0:20:14# By mechanical resources... #
0:20:15 > 0:20:20'When you get an audience going hysterical or screaming or things like that,
0:20:20 > 0:20:24'that's not a sort of normal thing to do.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28'It's like an exaggerated peak period
0:20:28 > 0:20:33'and a series of places in a certain period of time
0:20:33 > 0:20:38'and you just go from one lot of hysterical people to the next lot of hysterical people
0:20:38 > 0:20:42'to the next lot of hysterical people to the next lot,
0:20:42 > 0:20:46'which is just, you know, just too much.'
0:20:46 > 0:20:50# I-i-in a consumer society
0:20:54 > 0:20:57# I wanna be instamatic
0:20:57 > 0:21:00# I wanna be a frozen pea
0:21:00 > 0:21:03# I wanna be dehydrated
0:21:03 > 0:21:07# In a consumer society
0:21:07 > 0:21:11# In a consumer society
0:21:11 > 0:21:15# I-i-i-n a consumer society! #
0:21:21 > 0:21:27'These mice are taking part in an experiment that promises to be one of the most explosive issues
0:21:27 > 0:21:33'of the future. For the last four years, Prof John Maynard Smith has been working on a technique
0:21:33 > 0:21:38'that could dramatically extend the lives not only of mice, but men.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40'Back in 1994...'
0:21:40 > 0:21:45'They can deliberately upgrade the intelligence of animals now if they want.
0:21:45 > 0:21:49'They could sort of genetically engineer people for certain jobs.'
0:21:49 > 0:21:53'..the eggs were fertilised... and these mice were born.'
0:21:53 > 0:21:57'In the wrong hands and used the wrong way, it's terrible.
0:21:57 > 0:22:02'I find that quite frightening that we won't have much control.'
0:22:02 > 0:22:08'The question now is should we do it with human beings. We can't do it for adults,
0:22:08 > 0:22:14'but should we do it with an egg? Should we do it for an unborn human being?'
0:22:14 > 0:22:17# It's so very tempting
0:22:17 > 0:22:20# Will biologists resist
0:22:20 > 0:22:23# When he becomes the creator
0:22:23 > 0:22:29# Will he let us exi-i-i-st? #
0:22:29 > 0:22:33'It's so very tempting, Will biologists resist?
0:22:33 > 0:22:38'When he becomes the creator Will he let us exist?
0:22:39 > 0:22:43'Genetic engineering could create the perfect race
0:22:43 > 0:22:48'Could create an unknown life force That could us exterminate.'
0:22:48 > 0:22:50# It's so very tempting
0:22:50 > 0:22:53# Will biologists resist?
0:22:53 > 0:22:57# When he becomes the creator
0:22:57 > 0:23:05# Will he let us exi-i-i-ist? #
0:23:15 > 0:23:18'When you feel that you're not an individual,
0:23:18 > 0:23:21'then it seems more important.
0:23:21 > 0:23:27'Maybe you're just one person in a great big, great big organisation
0:23:27 > 0:23:29'and you just think, "How boring."
0:23:29 > 0:23:35'Then you think, "Wouldn't it be great to be an individual?" But people recognise you.
0:23:35 > 0:23:41'Then you think, "Oh, God. Why can't I be just, you know, walking along like everybody else?"
0:23:41 > 0:23:47'Nobody stops them and they can just get on with what they're doing and nobody says anything.'
0:23:51 > 0:23:56- The blue one's probably the next one round, actually.- Yeah.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58OK, here.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01136 and 134.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17- Is that going to be all right? - Yeah, I think so. It's fine.
0:24:22 > 0:24:29We'll be rehearsing with you very shortly now. If you'd like to go into the studio and wait around.
0:24:31 > 0:24:37Mike, can you just have a word with her and ask her if she will go through the next numbers
0:24:37 > 0:24:42as she's going to do it on the show tonight? She's going to talk now. I believe.
0:24:43 > 0:24:49- No, I'm not going to do any chatting between this one. - Well, someone was lying.
0:24:49 > 0:24:55- Never mind.- No, I don't mind no chat, but someone just told me that she was going to chat.
0:24:56 > 0:25:02- It starts on lead guitar. Four... - # I live off you
0:25:02 > 0:25:05One, two, three, four!
0:25:05 > 0:25:07And go into the guitar, Ron.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13See the sax, Three.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19Out you come, Two.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22Oh, all right. Out you come, Three.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26- See her, Two, thank you. - # I live off you
0:25:26 > 0:25:30- # You live off me... # - Use you as a cutaway, Ron.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32Once you've viewed One, get him out.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41It's the other hand, yeah. It's the other hand.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Out you come now, Ron.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48Actually, it's not bad.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59Using you for that, Three.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07Well, let's get Three out now.
0:26:07 > 0:26:11Well, he can go across. Take one.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14Up you go to the sax, One.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Three to the desk.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Is that it?
0:26:24 > 0:26:27And back to the desk on Three.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33So we're going to do a dress rehearsal?
0:26:33 > 0:26:37- So, Mike, if Poly and X-Ray Spex can liaise...- OK, thank you.
0:26:38 > 0:26:43I could remember what Oh Bondage Up Yours came out on, originally.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45- Virgin.- It was Virgin?!- Yeah.
0:26:45 > 0:26:50- Was it? I knew it wasn't EMI. - No, it was Virgin.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53- But...- This is an example of the new EMI image!
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Are you the man responsible?
0:26:59 > 0:27:00Yes!
0:27:00 > 0:27:03You've got to say that, anyway, I suppose.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15MUSIC: "Old Grey Whistle Test" THEME
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Luther, quickly. 28 seconds.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33Close up on Three.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35Eight. Seven. Six.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38Five. Four. Three.
0:27:38 > 0:27:42- Two. One. Zero. - Cue her.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47'Now the relaxation sequence.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51'Relax.
0:27:51 > 0:27:55'Relax. The whole of my body relaxed.
0:27:55 > 0:28:01'This man says he survives the outer chaos because he can create his own inner calm.'
0:28:03 > 0:28:06'If you just are yourself most of the time
0:28:06 > 0:28:12'and you just act out this other character just another part of the time,
0:28:12 > 0:28:14'then it's OK, I suppose.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17'Not forever, but...
0:28:20 > 0:28:26'Cos there's just things that you wanna do on your own, you know, which you never get time to do
0:28:26 > 0:28:32'cos you get totally absorbed by all the performance and everything that goes with it,
0:28:32 > 0:28:37'so you neglect a lot of things that you'd probably do otherwise.'
0:28:37 > 0:28:41RECORDING: Here are the songs of some of the birds of London parks and gardens.
0:28:41 > 0:28:45We start with the wood pigeon and robin.
0:28:45 > 0:28:51'I still wouldn't mind furthering my education properly, finishing it off when I'm a bit older.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54'Science interests me quite a lot.
0:28:54 > 0:28:57- SHE LAUGHS - 'Science and biology.
0:28:57 > 0:29:02'Basically, cos of the future possibilities of those areas.'
0:29:02 > 0:29:04BIRDSONG
0:29:04 > 0:29:07# I'm a cliche, I'm a cliche I'm a cliche
0:29:07 > 0:29:11# I'm a cliche I'm a cliche you've seen before
0:29:11 > 0:29:15# I'm a cliche that lives next door I'm a cliche, know what I mean
0:29:15 > 0:29:17# I'm a cliche, pink is obscene
0:29:19 > 0:29:23- # Yama yama yama - Yama yama yama boring boredom
0:29:23 > 0:29:28# Yama yama yama, yama yama yama Boring boredom, boring boredom... #
0:29:29 > 0:29:35'I'm a cliche in the sense that I've got two feet, two hands, tem fingers...!
0:29:35 > 0:29:38'Two eyes, hair.
0:29:38 > 0:29:44- LAUGHS - 'Brain. Whether that counts or not in cliches, I'm not sure.
0:29:44 > 0:29:46'But...
0:29:47 > 0:29:51- 'And a body and two legs, so, yeah, I'm a cliche! - SHE GIGGLES
0:29:52 > 0:29:57# Yama yama yama, yama yama yama Boring boredom, boring boredom
0:29:57 > 0:30:01# Yama yama yama, yama yama yama Boring boredom, boring boredom
0:30:01 > 0:30:05# Yama yama yama, yama yama yama Boring boredom, boring boredom
0:30:05 > 0:30:10# Yama yama yama, yama yama yama Boring boredom, boring boredom. #
0:30:18 > 0:30:22'"I drove my polypropylene car On wheels of sponge
0:30:22 > 0:30:26'"Then pulled in to a Wimpy Bar To have a rubber bun
0:30:28 > 0:30:32'"I clambered over mounds and mounds of polystyrene foam
0:30:32 > 0:30:36'"Then fell into a swimming pool Filled with Fairy Snow
0:30:36 > 0:30:40'"And watched the world turn Day-Glo."
0:30:41 > 0:30:46'It is just like a fantasy, it's like a daydream.
0:30:46 > 0:30:51'It was like I was clambering over the mounds and mounds of polystyrene.'
0:30:52 > 0:30:56It's a nice table, this one. It's got some nice features on it.
0:30:56 > 0:31:01'Everything's real. Even if it's unreal, it's still real because it exists
0:31:01 > 0:31:08'and you can see it and you can touch it and it can also be a figment of your imagination.
0:31:08 > 0:31:14'It's like somebody said, "Are you Poly Styrene?" And I said, "No, I'm real. I'm a person."'
0:31:14 > 0:31:18# The X-rays were penetrating
0:31:18 > 0:31:20# Through the latex breeze
0:31:20 > 0:31:24# Synthetic fibre see-thru leaves
0:31:24 > 0:31:26# Fell from the rayon trees
0:31:26 > 0:31:30# The day the world turned Day-Glo
0:31:30 > 0:31:34# You know, you know The world turned Day-Glo
0:31:34 > 0:31:38# You know, you know The world turned dayglo
0:31:38 > 0:31:42# You know, you know The world turned Day-Glo
0:31:42 > 0:31:44# You know... #
0:31:46 > 0:31:47Oh!
0:31:48 > 0:31:50Good night.
0:31:54 > 0:32:00What kind of things do you think of when you talk about Day-Glo and polystyrene?
0:32:00 > 0:32:06They mean more to me than somebody just saying "plastic". What kind of images do they bring to your mind?
0:32:06 > 0:32:07Em...
0:32:08 > 0:32:11Well, it's difficult to explain, really.
0:32:11 > 0:32:17I mean, it is plastic, but sort of products, disposable things, throwaway things.
0:32:17 > 0:32:23Day-Glo is just, you know, bright colours. A lot of people think it's drug-influenced, but it's not.
0:32:23 > 0:32:29It's just about plastics and fantasy and the world just around plastics.
0:32:29 > 0:32:32Sometimes they sound sad to me. This may just be my ears.
0:32:36 > 0:32:39'Every time we play, people go mad
0:32:39 > 0:32:43'and jump all over the stage and things get wrecked.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46'It's exciting, but it's like a neurosis, really.
0:32:46 > 0:32:52'It's bound to have some side effect on you. You just blank out, you just cut off.
0:32:52 > 0:32:58'You don't want to be this thing that they've come to see and say, "No, I can't do it any more."
0:32:59 > 0:33:03'It's a novelty, people coming backstage all the time.
0:33:03 > 0:33:07'It's quite flattering, but after a while you think, no.
0:33:07 > 0:33:10'You just don't want to see any new people.
0:33:10 > 0:33:16'If they want to see me, they should see me onstage because they're fans, they're not really friends.
0:33:16 > 0:33:22'It's not really good for you because you just start to adopt more and more this stage personality
0:33:22 > 0:33:27'for them. That's what they're expecting, so you just act it out.'
0:33:27 > 0:33:33- Somebody said to me that your teeth braces, somebody said it was just a device, you know.- No.
0:33:33 > 0:33:38- A stage prop.- It can't come off. - Can't it?- No, not yet, anyway.
0:33:38 > 0:33:42- Is it screwed in? - No, it's cemented on.
0:33:42 > 0:33:48- What sort of questions do you ask yourself all the time? - None any more.
0:33:48 > 0:33:52- There's no in-fighting going on? - No.- It's all over.
0:33:55 > 0:34:00I was going to say, what did you think of the crowd last night? Were you surprised?
0:34:00 > 0:34:04- I thought it was good. - Were you frightened?- No.
0:34:04 > 0:34:10Do you rely on Falcon for sort of, like, psychological protection?
0:34:10 > 0:34:15- No.- He's not like a buffer zone between you and all the bad vibes?
0:34:16 > 0:34:17No.
0:34:17 > 0:34:22- Do you live in a basement flat in his house?- Er, why?
0:34:22 > 0:34:27- I was just asking.- Oh.- I'm not trying to imply you had an affair.
0:34:27 > 0:34:33- No, I'm not saying that you are, but I just wondered what the... - What the significance of it was?
0:34:33 > 0:34:38Well, I think... Well, it's sort of like there he can look after you,
0:34:38 > 0:34:45- like a patriarch, you know? Do you know what I mean? - Er, well, no, not really.
0:34:45 > 0:34:49We want to go inside because it's really raining very heavily.
0:34:49 > 0:34:53- Shall I take these? - Are these really for me?- Yeah.- Oh!
0:34:53 > 0:34:55Come on.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58It's terribly wet.
0:35:05 > 0:35:11- Hello.- Oh, hello.- Welcome to EMI Records. My name is Geoff Webb. Would you like to sign our VIP book?
0:35:11 > 0:35:17'Plastics play an essential role in reproducing sound and vision and in recording it.'
0:35:19 > 0:35:25Hello. This is Radio EMI and today visiting the factory will be X-Ray Spex featuring Poly Styrene.
0:35:25 > 0:35:31In the charts this week at Number 22 is their latest single, Germfree Adolescents.
0:35:40 > 0:35:44- Hello.- Hello.- This is Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex.- Yes, I know.
0:35:44 > 0:35:50- We've come to see what you're doing. - Are your teeth genuine?- Pardon? - Are your teeth genuine?- Yeah.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52Oh.
0:35:52 > 0:35:57No, I was saying on telly, you look as if you've got steel teeth.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59Very nice.
0:36:10 > 0:36:14It's my great pleasure this morning to introduce you to the lead singer Poly Styrene.
0:36:14 > 0:36:17- Good morning, Poly.- Hello.
0:36:17 > 0:36:22I want to start off by asking you, Poly Styrene is an unusual name. How did it come about?
0:36:22 > 0:36:26Well, I found that name by looking through Yellow Pages.
0:36:26 > 0:36:31And it's a plastic, so I just chose that name.
0:36:31 > 0:36:34- Different, isn't it?- Well...
0:36:34 > 0:36:36What's your real name?
0:36:36 > 0:36:39- You ain't going to tell me, are you? - No.
0:36:39 > 0:36:44- 'So you're the sole songwriter? - Well, you could say that, yeah.
0:36:44 > 0:36:49'With the release of your first album, how do you see your music developing?'
0:36:49 > 0:36:53I can't really put into words how I see the music developing.
0:36:53 > 0:36:58Maybe it will turn into the sound of a Hoover.
0:37:03 > 0:37:06# Oh bondage, up yours
0:37:06 > 0:37:09# Oh bondage, up yours
0:37:09 > 0:37:12# Oh bondage, up yours...
0:37:14 > 0:37:18# Bind me, tie me Chain me to the wall
0:37:18 > 0:37:21# I wanna be a slave to you all
0:37:21 > 0:37:23# Oh bondage, up yours
0:37:23 > 0:37:26# Oh bondage, no more
0:37:26 > 0:37:29# Oh bondage, up yours
0:37:29 > 0:37:32# Oh bondage, no more
0:37:32 > 0:37:35# Oh bondage, up yours
0:37:35 > 0:37:38# Oh bondage, no more
0:37:38 > 0:37:41# Oh bondage, no more! #
0:37:41 > 0:37:46- Give us a kiss!- Good night. - Give us a kiss!- On the cheek.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48Get off!
0:38:07 > 0:38:09PRACTICE PLAYING
0:38:29 > 0:38:34'It sort of depends on what you class as shutting yourself off.
0:38:34 > 0:38:39'To demand a certain amount of privacy I think is definitely something I'll always do,
0:38:39 > 0:38:41'but, er...
0:38:43 > 0:38:49'I've never been the type of person to have lots of people around me in any case.
0:38:49 > 0:38:53'When you're working, that's something else,
0:38:53 > 0:38:57'but when you're sort of by yourself I don't like it. I'm quiet.
0:38:57 > 0:39:02'I'm not the only one that's quiet. The others are quiet, too. Jak hates crowds,
0:39:02 > 0:39:09'Paul likes to be by himself. He likes living in St Albans. He wouldn't live anywhere else!'
0:39:15 > 0:39:17Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd