‘I’d wear a mac on stage because of all the spitting’: Lora Logic on punk, prayer and Poly Styrene

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As Essential Logic release their second album 43 years after their first, their founder talks squats, scary gigs and her tempestuous relationship with her X-Ray Spex bandmate

t was the summer of 1977 when Lora Logic discovered she was no longer the saxophonist with X-Ray Spex. “I called our manager, Falcon, to find out when our next rehearsal was,” she says. “He said, ‘Oh, didn’t you know? We found a new sax player.’”

. The pair of releases reveal her gift for the unexpected to be wonderfully undimmed by the passage of time.Born Susan Whitby, Logic grew up in Wembley, her childhood soundtracked by John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. “My father wasn’t well, always in pain,” Logic says, speaking from her home in Hertfordshire. “But the sound of the saxophone soothed him.” At 13, he bought her a tenor sax: it was love at first honk.

Falcon, meanwhile, “had pound signs in his eyes when he saw this second young girl for the group, with her massive tenor saxophone”, she says.

 

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