Two Hours of Punk Coming Up on BBC4 at 9.pm

[vixen1700]

Just a heads up if it's your bag.

Could be good.

[mickyh7]

Thanks for that. I would have missed them.
Both on record now.

[rjfp1962]

So far so good...!

[vixen1700]

Just watched the first one. Nothing I hadn't seen before but still some good stuff if a little 'new wave' biased.

Poly Styrene - Always brings a tear to my eye, first band I saw at the age of 12 in 1978.

Siouxsie - She was just like that seeing them the same year.

Stiff Little Fingers - A firm fave.

The Gang of Four - Never got them at the time, but can really listen to them now.

Joy Division on Something Else - Timeless.

Patti Smith doing Horses - Such a great album

Devo - Auto Modown still blows me away 42 years after first hearing it.

Homosapien - Pete Shelley, never tire of playing the 12" version.

Looking forward to part two.

[Ultuous]

Loving the second one - first one was solid enough, but this one's more varied IMHO!

[vixen1700]

Not a lot of Punk to be honest in the second one. Also some very odd choices, King Crimson?

Sixteen Again - Buzzcocks, my fave of theirs.

John Foxx - Could have found some old Ultravox footage like Young Savage

Adam and the Ants - Should have found some pre-CBS stuff. Marco Pironi playing guitar in Rema Rema months before he joins the Ants: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uafFMC_Y8vA Heard this in the Beggar's Banquet shop as a demo when I was a kid and it blew me away.

The Ants a year earlier: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eaMAHIv__tw

Needless to say I would have done the two hours completely differently !