When I was in The Fiction our manager was a guy called Nigel Rennard. He was quite well off and when the Live at The Roxy album came out he asked the guy at Readings Record Shop in Carlton to keep him a copy of every record that came out from the bands featured on the album. The Readings guy just came over to me and said "Your manager was in earlier and he ordered all these punk albums that haven't been released yet!" One of them of course was X Ray Spex. I didn't have the money to buy stuff without hearing it and actually I didn't have the money to buy new albums. I was on the dole and living in a run down share house in Oakleigh. I was forever scouring second hand bins for the latest albums. I couldn't even afford the new Clash album when it came out. I did pick up a cheap copy of the Roxy album but the only tracks I liked were the Adverts, Buzzcocks and Wire. Hated Bondage, Up Yours.
One day I was in a second hand store in Moorabbin and they had the X Ray Spex dead cheap. An old friend of mine's sister had brought the album back from the UK and she hated punk but loved the album. So I thought I'd give it a go. It was cheap. I didn't really get round to listening to it properly though until we started having a Mod disco support us at our gigs in 1980. Peter Crosby our regular DJ would put on Warrior in Woolworths and I I thought it was great. So I went back and listened to the album more. And I just loved the sound. Fantastic. The highlight being this track. The album became one of my favourites.
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