"The Women Pt. 2" (80s & 90s)

“The Women, Pt. 2 (80s & 90s)” (broadcast 11/7/25)

Laurie Anderson: O Superman
Nico: Sixty Forty 
Kirsty MacColl: There’s A Guy Who Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis
Divinyls: Elsie
Monsoon: Ever So Lonely
Romeo Void: Never Say Never 
Waitresses: I Know What Boys Like
Tracey Ullman: They Don't Know
Cristina: Smile
Angel Corpus Christi: Dream Baby Dream
Sophia George: Girlie Girlie
10,000 Maniacs: Daktari
Kate Bush: The Big Sky
Sinéad O'Connor & The Edge: Heroine (Theme From ‘Captive')
Vanessa Paradis: Joe Le Taxi
Mary Margaret O’Hara: Body's In Trouble
The Heart Throbs: Here I Hide
Lita Ford: Kiss Me Deadly 
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts: I Hate Myself for Loving You
Sara Hickman: Simply
Sugarcubes: Planet
Julee Cruise: Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart
Sonic Youth: Kool Thing
Orchestra JB: Come Alive
The New York Loose: Bitch
The Pretenders: Night In My Veins
Patti Smith: Summer Cannibals
Stereolab: Wow And Flutter
Neneh Cherry: Kootchi
Morcheeba: Tape Loop (Shortcheeba Mix)
Sneaker Pimps: 6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Mix)
Moloko: Fun For Me
Lori Carson: Something’s Got Me
Garbage: Push It (partial, faded early)

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