I dont know about anyone else but I always wondered how Poly Styrene got to Krishna from Punk but after decades of occasional wondering I've finally found out why.
Poly's road to Hari (-Hari Hari May.-that was terrible!!) Krishna began one night after an after a concert. X-Ray Spex gig when "the moment that changed me forever... was seeing a Day-glo UFO in Docaster one night.
It was a bright ball of luminouspink, made of energy -like a fireball, everyone else thought I'd lost the plot".
The band may have thought Poly "had lost the plot" because Poly was the only band member to see the UFO and it wasn't reported in any media.
Yet to Poly the experience was so realistic and made her feel like electricity was flowing through her body and it changed her, this soon put her on a road that saw the band split up, Poly diagnosed with Schizophrenia, then as Bi-Polar disorder, while this was going on Poly was putting herself on her own little Grail quest for enlightenment that eventually led her to the doors of the Krishnas where she eventually found peace and happiness.
All in all, it's not what we believe she did or didn't see that night (that the band couldn't), the important thing for Poly was that for her it was as real as going to the shops is to us.
And she was said to be happy, even putting on the odd X-Ray Spex gigs on during the 1980's and 90's, as well as the Roundhouse gig, which knowing what she was suffering from at the time makes the soundman responsible for fucking up the bands last gig even more henios than before, I hoped then that the git never got work again after he ballsed it up so incredibly badly but now I hope hes aware that he fucked up the 'living Wake' gig of a dieing person.
I aint going to speculate about what the ''UFO'' was or wasn't, I'll leave that to you.
As you may of noticed I've a big fan of X-Ray Spex for some time, I must be getting old, I haven't taken the piss, a lot.
Poly's road to Hari (-Hari Hari May.-that was terrible!!) Krishna began one night after an after a concert. X-Ray Spex gig when "the moment that changed me forever... was seeing a Day-glo UFO in Docaster one night.
It was a bright ball of luminouspink, made of energy -like a fireball, everyone else thought I'd lost the plot".
The band may have thought Poly "had lost the plot" because Poly was the only band member to see the UFO and it wasn't reported in any media.
Yet to Poly the experience was so realistic and made her feel like electricity was flowing through her body and it changed her, this soon put her on a road that saw the band split up, Poly diagnosed with Schizophrenia, then as Bi-Polar disorder, while this was going on Poly was putting herself on her own little Grail quest for enlightenment that eventually led her to the doors of the Krishnas where she eventually found peace and happiness.
All in all, it's not what we believe she did or didn't see that night (that the band couldn't), the important thing for Poly was that for her it was as real as going to the shops is to us.
And she was said to be happy, even putting on the odd X-Ray Spex gigs on during the 1980's and 90's, as well as the Roundhouse gig, which knowing what she was suffering from at the time makes the soundman responsible for fucking up the bands last gig even more henios than before, I hoped then that the git never got work again after he ballsed it up so incredibly badly but now I hope hes aware that he fucked up the 'living Wake' gig of a dieing person.
I aint going to speculate about what the ''UFO'' was or wasn't, I'll leave that to you.
As you may of noticed I've a big fan of X-Ray Spex for some time, I must be getting old, I haven't taken the piss, a lot.
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