"7"

"7" (broadcast 5/15/26)

Kamasi Washington: Seven Prayers
Warren Storm: Seven Letters
Blackberry Smoke: Lucky Seven
David Bowie: Seven (Marius de Vries mix)
Roseanne Cash: Seven Year Ache
Luna: Seven Steps To Satan
Egg: Seven Is A Jolly Good Time
June Tabor & the Oyster Band: Seven Curses
Charlie Haden Family (ft. The Haden Triplets): Seven Year Blues
David Greenberger/the Huckleberries: All Together 7
Iain Matthews: Seven Bridges Road 
Rory Gallagher: Seven Days
Genesis: Seven Stones
Prince Fatty: Seven Nation Army Dub (ft. Alice Russell & Dennis Alcapone)
J.J. Cale: Seven Day Woman
Love Spit Love: 7 Years
Culture: Two Sevens Clash
Billy Hands & George Cork Maul: Documenting Number Five And Seven
Gary Lucas: The Seven Faces Of Dr. Lao
Polyrock: #7
Tito Rodríguez: The Magnificant Seven
Mose Allison: The Seventh Son
The MRCYFKS: Seven Point Eight Three Hurts
Billy Strings: Seven Weeks In County
The Quireboys: Seven O' Clock 
Spielgusher: Seven Seas Of Love
Ronnie Wood: Seven Days
Hank Williams III: 7 Months, 39 Days
Elvis Costello: Seven Day Weekend 
Ramones: 7-11
The Heroes: Seven Day Week-End
Audience: Seven Sore Bruises
Traveling Wilburys: 7 Deadly Sins
Love: Seven & Seven Is
MX-80 Sound: Summer 77
Hamell On Trial: 7 Seas 
Nick Lowe: 7 Nights To Rock
Dr. Feelgood: Lucky Seven 
Wah! Heat: Seven Minutes To Midnight
The Clash: The Magnificent Seven
Toots & the Maytals: Six And Seven Books Of Moses 
Desmond Dekker: 0.0.7 (Shanty Town)
Baba Brooks Band w/Lynn Taitt: Skalarama (The Magnificent Seven Theme)

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