Post Punk Britain

Fenella phone calls compilation by Post Punk Britain

This week’s show spotlights a new CD release of an 80s recording by Newcastle duo dumdum SCORE. They went back to the original analogue master tapes and ‘produced again’ the entire album. 1. dumdum SCORE - West 2. Bauhaus - Dark Entries 3. Girls At Our Best - Getting Nowhere Fast (1980) 4. Elvis Costello & Jimmy Cliff - Seven Day Weekend (1986) 5. King Tubby - Soundboy Massacre 6. Magazine - A Son...

Bands that played Newcastle in 1980... maybe they came to your town too. 1. Au Pairs - Love Song (1980) 2. Blurt - Get (1980) 3. Girlschool - Emergency (1980) 4. Devo - Girl You Want (1980) 5. Dirty Looks - Let Go (1980) 6. Tourists - Blind Among The Flowers (1979) 7. Hazel O’Connor - Monsters in Disguise (1980) 8. Any Trouble - Yesterday’s Love (1980) 9. Members - Flying Again (1980) 10. Underton...

A rather arbitrary best of my shows from 2015. 1. Josef K - The Missionary (1982) 2. A Certain Ratio - Shack Up (1980) 3. Au Pairs - Shakedown (Richard Skinner, 1982) 4. Bill Nelson’s Red Noise - Don’t Touch Me (1979) 5. Buzzcocks - Love You More (1978) 6. Gang of Four - Damaged Goods (FAST, 1978) 7. Heaven 17 - Fascist Groove Thang (1981) 8. Jam - Butterfly Collector (1979) 9. John Cooper Clarke...

Fenella Fielding and Simon McKay present their fifth Christmas show. A mixture of music and chat and some special guests: Andrew Logan, Nick Feldman and Kit from Wild & Wood Coffee. 1. Melody Kings - Lo, I Am With You 2. Sly & The Family Stone - Family Affair 3. John Betjeman - Agricultural Caress 4. Johnny Harris - Paint It Black (1970) 5. Sex Pistols - Holidays In The Sun (1977) 6. Lindisfarne -...

Includes tracks from the recently reissued debut LP by the Passions and a track from the brand new Boots For Dancing retrospective. 1. Protex - Listening In (1978) 2. Mo-Dettes - Dark Park Creeping (1980) 3. Maximum Joy - Stretch (1981) 4. Magazine - A Song From Under The Floorboards (1980) 5. Passions - Pedal Fury (1980) 6. Penetration - Movement (1978) 7. Revillos - Your Baby’s Gone (1981) 8. Bo...

The alternative clubs in early 80s Newcastle were usually in the venues nobody else wanted to go to and on the nights nobody else wanted to be out… you might have gone to similar nights in your town. This show recalls the music, the people, the venues and the feel of those nights. 1. Human League - Sound of the Crowd 2. B-52s - Give Me Back My Man 3. Bauhaus - Kick In The Eye 4. Associates - Party...

Lots of songs about 'work'! 1. Magazine - Model Worker (1980) 2. Skids - Working for the Yankee Dollar (1979) 3. Blue Orchids - Work (1981) 4. Cartoons - Lunchtime Love Affair (1980) 5. Members - Brian Was (1980) 6. Chelsea - Right To Work (1977) 7. Specials - Nite Klub (1980) 8. Clash - Julie’s Been Working For The Drug Squad (1978) 9. Elvis Costello - Welcome To The Working Week (DEMO, 1977) 10....

It's my fiftieth birthday so I'm playing exactly what I'd like to hear today. Fenella said she'd love to be on the show too so I popped round to visit her. As ever, she's on wonderful form. 1. Dusty Springfield - What’s It Gonna Be (1967) 2. Four Tops - Baby I Need Your Loving (1964) 3. Fashionable Impure - Fight Ignorance (1981) 4. Gang of Four - Damaged Goods (Fast, 1978) 5. Geo S Irving - Butle...

No theme tonight; just a mixture of late 70s and early 80s recordings. (The show previously listed - by mistake - will go up next week). 1. A Certain Ratio - Shack Up (1980) 2. Clash - Stay Free (1978) 3. Agony Column - Love In The Head (1980) 4. Cure - Play for Today (1980) 5. Beat - Stand Down Margaret (Dub, 1980) 6. Realists - I’ve Got A Heart (1978) 7. Pseudo Existers - Coming Up For Air (1979...

An hour of punk and post-punk live recordings from the late 70s and early 80s, but played where they should be played on a stage WITH A ROOF ABOVE IT! 1. Members - Sound of the Suburbs (Live 1979) 2. Magazine - Model Worker (Live, Santa Monica Civic 1980) 3. Alleycats - Nothing Means Nothing (Live, Whisky CA 1980) 4. Clash - English Civil War (Live, Lyceum 1978) 5. Specials - Rat Race (Live, Amste...

Clearly a show with a theme... 1. Adam & The Ants - Car Trouble (1978) 2. Apartment - The Car (1980) 3. Ski Patrol - Driving (1980) 4. Buzzcocks - Fast Cars (1978) 5. Billy Bremner - Loud Music In Cars (1981) 6. Gang of Four - Man With A Good Car (1984) 7. Au Pairs - Kerb Crawler (1980) 8. Undertones - Girls Don’t Like It (1979) 9. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Billericay Dickie (1977) 10. Jam - Sat...

A guide to the best of late 70s and early 80s British post-punk: 1. Gang of Four - Not Great Men (1979) 2. Magazine - Model Worker (1980) 3. Teardrop Explodes - When I Dream (1980) 4. Au Pairs - Love Song (1980) 5. Monochrome Set - He's Frank (Slight Return) (1979) 6. Neon Hearts - Popular Music (1979) 7. Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business (1979) 8. Glaxo Babies - Who Killed Bruce Lee? (1979) 9. Sli...

Best of the Post Post Britain shows from 2013. Cure - Play For Today (1980) Cabaret Voltaire - Nag, Nag, Nag Au Pairs - Intact (Session, 1981) Big Youth - Cool Breeze Clash - Janie Jones (Demo, 1977) Echo & The Bunnymen - Pride (1980) Essential Logic - Music Is A Better Noise (1980) Members - End of Term Jam - Saturday's Kids (1979) Lesley Woods - Say Peace (2013) Scotty - Draw Your Brakes (1971)...

A Stiff Records special based on Richard Balls' book 'The Stiff Records Story'. Nick Lowe - So It Goes (1976) Tyla Gang - Styrofoam (1976) Damned - New Rose (1976) Adverts - One Chord Wonders (1977) Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives (1977) Ian Dury - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (1978) Lene Lovich - Home (1978) Wreckless Eric - Broken Doll (1980) Kirsty MacColl - They Don’t Know (1979) Rea...

Recorded before the election - a voice from the past; when there was still hope! Tories in power is not the way I want to revisit the 80s! These tracks will be scant consolation but I hope you enjoy them anyway: 1. Glaxo Babies - This Is Your Life (1979) 2. Essential Logic - Collecting Dust (1979) 3. Happy Family - Puritans (1982) 4. John Holt - For The Love Of You 5. Scars - Adult/Ery (1979) 6. S...

A show from before the general election: 1. Heaven 17 - Fascist Groove Thang (1981) 2. Magazine - Light Pours Out Of Me (1980) 3. A Certain Ratio - Shack Up (1980) 4. John Cooper Clarke - Suspended Sentence (1977) 5. Cabaret Voltaire - Nag, Nag, Nag (1979) 6. Gladiators - Chatty Chatty Mouth (1977) 7. Young Marble Giants - Wurlitzer Jukebox (1980) 8. Department S - Is Vic There? (1980) 9. Lora Log...

Fenella & Simon present a selection of fantastic Motown tracks... big names, but not necessarily the songs you'd expect to hear. (This show was first broadcast on Break London Radio as a May Special in 2012)

Recorded seven days before the general election, this week's Post Punk Britain features songs and comments that I think are very relevant today: 1. Specials - It’s Up To You (LIVE, 1979) 2. The Imposter AKA Elvis Costello - Pills & Soap (1983) 3. Barry Brown - Politician 4. Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty (1981) 5. Stiff Little Fingers - Breakout (1979) 6. Clash - Something About England (1980...

A small taste of what the post-punk generation were listening to in the early 80s. 1. Josef K - The Missionary (1982) 2. B Movie - Remembrance Day (1982) 3. XTC - This Is Pop (1978) 4. Jackie Edwards - Too Experienced 5. Joe Jackson - I’m The Man (1979) 6. John Cooper Clarke - Psycle Sluts (1977) 7. Bill Nelson - Do You Dream In Colour (1980) 8. Essential Logic - Quality Crayon Wax OK (1980) 9. Ta...

A small taste of what the post-punk generation were listening to in the early 80s. Tonight's show includes a reference to Julien Temple's excellent documentary, shown on the BBC at New Year, about the Clash's performance at the first night of the Roxy Club in Covent Garden. Full track-listing for the show: 1. Buzzcocks - Love You More (1978) 2. Bill Nelson’s Red Noise - Furniture Music (1979) 3. J...

A small taste of what the post-punk generation were listening to in the early 80s: 1. Cure - Jumping Someone Else’s Train (1979) 2. Bauhaus - Kick In The Eye (1981) 3. Magazine - Give Me Everything (1978) 4. Sly Dunbar - Unmetered Taxi (1982) 5. Gas - Ignore Me (1981) 6. pragVEC - Bits (1978) 7. Slits - Vindictive (PEEL, 1977) 8. Mick Farren - Let’s Loot The Supermarket (1977) 9. Derrick Harriott...

1. Clash - Clampdown (1979) 2. Gang of Four - Why Theory? (1980) 3. Wire - Lowdown 4. Big Youth - Screaming Target 5. 999 - Feeling Alright With the Crew (1978) 6. Cartoons - Lunchtime Love Affair (1980) 7. Dennis Brown - Lovers of Paradise 8. Realists - I’ve Got A Heart (1978) 9. Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device (1978) 10. Slits - Love and Romance (PEEL, 1977) 11. Barry Ford Band - Rebel (`1...

A small taste of what the post-punk generation were listening to in the early 80s. 1. Stranglers - Something Better Change (1977) 2. Ruts - H-Eyes (1979) 3. Any Trouble - Turning Up The Heat (1980) 4. Eyeless In Gaza - Sunbursts In (1982) 5. Black Uhuru - Abortion (1979) 6. Essential Logic - Wake Up (1979) 7. Flys - Name Dropping (1979) 8. pragVEC - Existentialist (1978) 9. Gang of Four - Love Lik...

The usual mix of late 70s and early 80s sounds including tracks from Patrik Fitzgerald's recent CD anthology and a couple of tracks recorded for John Peel. 1. Gang of Four - Tourist (PEEL, 1979) 2. Mekons - I’ll Have to Dance Then (1978) 3. Essential Logic - Collecting Dust (1979) 4. Scotty - Unbelievable Sound 5. Scritti Politti - Scritlocks Door (1979) 6. Patrik Fitzgerald - Buy Me Sell Me (1977...