"The Women Who Play"

“Women Who Play”

Enya: Pax Deorum
Nico: It Has Not Taken Long 
Joni Mitchell: Shadows And Light 
Chicken Shack: I’d Rather Go Blind 
Björk: Álfur Út Úr Hól 
Kim Deal: Are You Mine
Delia Derbyshire: Dr. Who Theme
Anne Müller: Serenade at 2 
Julia Holter: Hello Stranger
Kathryn Tickell & The Side: Penguin Notes
Laura Nyro: Up On the Roof 
Molly Lewis: Whistling in the Dark
Juana Molina: Sin Dones
Tori Amos: I Don’t Like Mondays 
Moe Tucker: Heroin
Victoria Williams: Sweet Jane (w/Lou Reed)
Dean & Britta: Not A Young Man Anymore (My Robot Friend Remix) 
Tom Tom Club: Femme Fatale
Angel Corpus Christi: The Day John Kennedy Died
Rickie Lee Jones: Walk On The Wild Side
The Velvet Underground: Foggy Notion
Laurie Anderson: Sharkey’s Day
Josephine Foster: I’m a Dreamer
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women: Downey Girl
Bridget  St. John: Nice
Bonnie Raitt: Love Has No Pride
The Cramps: Hard Workin' Man
Kate St. John: Don’t They Know You've Gone
Anoushka Shankar: Lasya
Rachelle Garniez: My Sister and I 
Bela Fleck & Evelyn Glennie: Presto in G Minor after Bach
Kate Bush: Eat the Music
Frank Zappa & The Mothers: The Dog Breath Variations/Uncle Meat 
Sheila E: Leader of the Band (feat. Prince & The E Family) Samantha Fish: Runaway 
The Deadly Nightshade: No Chicken Today
Macy Gray: Let You Win 
Viv Albertine: If Love
Wet Leg: Don’t Speak
The Slits: Typical Girls
Mary Lattimore: Your Birthday at the Huntington
The Bangles: Bitchen Summer (Speedway)
The She Trinity: He Fought The Law
Sonny & Cher: The Beat Goes On 
The Liverbirds: Talking About You 
Anna Calvi: Ghost Rider 
Lita Ford: Kiss Me Deadly
The B-52’s: Love Shack 
The Cramps: Human Fly
Talking Heads: Psycho Killer
The Courettes: Better Without You 
The Prissteens: Are You Ready
The 5.6.7.8s: Roadrunner (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