"'Avin' It Large"

“'Avin’ It Large” (broadcast 3/7/25)

Charlatans: Nine Acre Dust (Chemical Brothers remix)
Yello: Vicious Games
Stereo MC’s: Step It Up
Cornershop: Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook remix)
The Shamen Ebeneezer Goode (Beatmasters mix)
Inspiral Carpets: Commercial Reign
Sleaford Mods: West End Girls
Alabama 3: Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness
Moloko: Fun For Me 
Flowered Up: It’s On (Sonia)
Electronic: Get The Message (extended mix)
The Chemical Brothers: Hey Boy Hey Girl
The Psychedelic Furs: Pretty in Pink (dub mix)
Leftfield & John Lydon: Open Up (full vocal mix)
Garbage: When I Grow Up [Danny Tenaglia's club mix]
Primal Scream: Loaded
Happy Mondays: W.F.L. (Think About The Future mix)
Lo-Fidelity Allstars: Battleflag (feat. Pigeonhed)
Intastella: Manchester
Fatboy Slim: Praise You
Fluke: Atom Bomb (Atomix 3) 
Underworld: Born Slippy
Republica: Ready To Go [original extended mix]
The Cure: Why Can't I Be You? (extended mix 1987)
The Prodigy: Firestarter (Alvin Risk remix)
Sneaker Pimps: 6 Underground (Nellee Hooper mix)
Blur: On Your Own (Crouch End Broadway mix)
Dub Pistols: Mucky Weekend (feat. Rodney P) 
Wildchild: Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim old skool mix - partial)

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

Airing twice a month on WPKN 89.5FM Bridgeport!

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

howard worked in the music biz so he could get more free records and meet wondrous 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, 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, the Sisters Of Mercy, and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and is grateful to 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