“Painters & Paintings”

“Painters & Paintings” (broadcast 7/19/19)

Michael Marra: Frida Kahlo's Visit to the Taybridge Bar 
Status Quo: Pictures Of Matchstick Men 
The Velvet Underground: Andy's Chest
Phil Manzanera: After Magritte 
The Mighty Wah!: Hey! Mona Lisa 
Don McLean: Vincent 
Joni Mitchell: The Jungle Line 
Conway Twitty: Mona Lisa 
Ian Dury & The Music Students: Peter The Painter 
Sara Hickman: Salvador 
Terry Allen: Truckload of Art
Lou Reed & John Cale: Hello It's Me 
Anna Calvi: Swimming Pool 
Angel Corpus Christi: Dim the Lights
10,000 Maniacs: Pour De Chirico
Michael Franks: Mr. Blue
Neil Young: The Painter
The Courettes: I Wanna be Your Yoko Ono
The Modern Lovers: Pablo Picasso 
Tony Adamo & The New York Crew: Picasso At Midnite 
Adam & The Ants: Picasso Visita El Planeta de los Simios
Guy Clark: Picasso's Mandolin
Robyn Hitchcock: DeChirico Street
Steely Dan: The Caves Of Altamira 
The Hidden City Orchestra: Chagall's Window 
Carl Mann: Mona Lisa 
KRS-One: Out for Fame 
Adrian Belew: Guernica
Television Personalities: I Remember Bridget Riley 
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Run Paint Run Run 
Fast 'N' Bulbous: Dali's Car 
Philip Glass: An Artist Comes to Paint You 
Dire Straits: In The Gallery 
Bob Dylan: When I Paint My Masterpiece (demo)
Nits: Soap Bubble Box 
Felt: Primituve Painters 
Dana Gillespie: Andy Warhol 
Jay-Z: Picasso Baby (partial)

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

Apart from the occasional overnighter, fill-in or fundraiser, howard now creates shows for our Podcasts page. You’ll find over 140 archived PUREs there, and new shows will be added - check the PURE and “Strictly” pages - at least once a month.

howard loves all kinds of music and has collected records ever since his uncle gave him Rock Around The Clock as a 6th birthday present.

Disc Jockeys like Brian Matthew (BBC Light Program), Emperor Rosko (Radio Caroline), John Peel (Radio London/BBC Radio 1), Hugh Nolan (Radio Geronimo), Charlie Gillett (BBC Radio London) and Andy Dunkley (the Marquee/Lyceum) made howard’s life worth living and he now just wants to return the favor.

howard worked in the music biz so he could get free records and meet astonishing people.

howard made records with Adam & the Ants, Alan Vega, Angel Corpus Christi, Aswad, Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg, Danny Gatton, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Georgia Satellites, Hamell On Trial, Herb Alpert, Ian Hunter, John Campbell, Judy Tenuta, ManBreak, Motörhead, Peter C Johnson, the Prissteens, the Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, Rubén Blades, Sally Oldfield, Sara Hickman, Scatterbrain, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, the Slits, The Star Spangles, The Sugarcubes, Susan Fassbender, Sir Tim Smit, Tulipomania, Victor DeLorenzo, Yellowman and 10,000 Maniacs to name a few. He was the first to release records by MX-80 Sound, the Real Kids and Suicide in Europe, and th’ faith healers, the Gipsy Kings, Happy Mondays, Paul Young and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and thanks Steve di Costanzo and Peter Bochan for letting him in. Terry Hopper too, for giving up an hour of The Quest to see if it could work.

howard thinks Bob Dylan should be President, and ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach should be Vice-President