"Some Summer"

“Some Summer” (broadcast 7/17/15)

Billy Swan: I Can Help 
Billy Swan: Don't Be Cruel 
Billy Swan: Summer Wind 
Hillary Bratton: Times Square
Gene Casey: Guitar in the Rain 
Keith Richards: Trouble
Inner Circle: Tenement Yard [feat Chronixx] 
Quarter Street: Diferente 
John Ginty Ball Of Fire:
Eddie Cotton: Ego At Your Door
D.A. Foster: The Real Thing 
Golden Earring: Twilight Zone 
War On Drugs: Under The Pressure
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Funeral 
Paul Simon & Marc Anthony: Summer Satin Nights
Charlie Parker: Summertime
Patti Smith: Summer Cannibals
T. Rex: Summertime Blues
MX-80 Sound: Summer ’77
James Brown (w/Martha High): Summertime
Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys: Summertime is Past and Gone
Bert Jansch: Summer Heat
Love Sculpture: Summertime
The Sensible Gray Cells: English Summer
The Who: Summertime Blues (studio vers.)
The Flying Lizards: Summertime Blues
Bob Dylan: Summer Days
Audience: Indian Summer
Dion: Summertime Blues
Squackett: The Summer Backwards
Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues

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