As part of the city wide festival, celebrating all things punk! The untold stories of UK punk in the late 70s and beyond. Leicester and Britain’s role in punk . . .
Friday 18th August, upstairs at Firebug we have Lora Logic!!
Lora Logic (also spelt Laura Logic; born Susan Whitby c. 1960) is a British saxophonist, singer and songwriter from Wembley, London.[1] Logic was a founding member of London punk band X-Ray Spex, and wrote the saxophone parts for their debut album, Germfree Adolescents.[2] After leaving X-Ray Spex, Logic founded her own band, Essential Logic, which released one full-length album in 1979. Logic has been called “one of post-punk’s most notable atypical girls.”
“Susan Whitby was 15 years old and had been playing saxophone for a little more than six months when she joined her friend Marion Elliot (aka Poly Styrene) and formed the great English punk band X-Ray Spex. At this juncture, Whitby renamed herself Lora Logic and brought her honking and squawking to X-Ray Spex’s guitar-propelled punk rock, staying in the band long enough to record the seminal feminist-punk single “Oh Bondage, Up Yours!” Prior to the recording of their debut album, Logic abruptly left the band to follow her own quirky songwriting muse and formed the wonderfully named Essential Logic. Eschewing fast and loud guitars for off-kilter rhythms, “bluesy” sax playing, and forays into dissonance and atonality, Essential Logic created some of the most liberating, exciting music of the early post-punk era. Along with her primitive, exhilarating sax playing, Logic displayed a wildly imaginative vocal style that conflated the subtle eroticism of Patti Smith with the epiglottal spasms of Yoko Ono. Singing, braying, and screeching her implicitly (at times explicitly) feminist lyrics while her backing band crashed and bashed in the background, this was almost a punk version of that most despised of genres, art rock. And while the subjects of most of her songs were serious (alienation, sexism, poverty, urban isolation), there was a bratty tongue-wagging raffishness to Logic (and band) that placed them a cut above the rest.” (John Dougan, Rovi)
Listen: https://youtu.be/c8AYff-uytU
Firebug is pleased to host the legendary Essential Logic for this celebratory event as part of the Punk Festival Weekender.
More info about Punk: Rage & Revolution and Punk Festival Weekender can be found at: https://rageandrevolution.co.uk/
Tickets: https://bit.ly/3KArLwk
WEBSITE: https://www.essential-logic.co.uk/
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/logic_essential
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/essentiallogicofficial/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/loralogicofficial/
YOUTUBE: @essentiallogicofficial
“…fresh, complex, and irresistible. Indirectly, Lora and her brand name changed the world. If you’ve never heard this incredible group, you have definitely been hearing echoes for the past 20 years. And now you get the real thing.” – David Nichols , author , historian
Tix here: https://www.gigantic.com/essential-logic-feat-lora-logic-xray-spex-w/-jesuscarfish-boilers-tickets/leicester-firebug/2023-08-18-20-00
