"Rockers" (fill-in for Rockers Arena)

"Rockers" (fill-in for Rockers Arena, broadcast in May 2021)

Sly & Robbie: Taxi Connection
Zap Pow: This Is Reggae Music
Eek A-Mouse: Wa-Do-Dem 
Pluto Shervington: Dat 
Toots & The Maytals: Louie Louie 
George Faith: In The Midnight Hour / Ya Ya
Yellowman: Body Move
Glen Washington: Rockers (No Crackers)
Culture: Love Shine Brighter
Errol Dunkley: Please Stop Your Lying
Barrington Levy: Love the Life You Live
The Heptones: Hypocrite
Gregory Isaacs: Mr Cop
Worl-A-Girl: No Gunshot
Worl-A-Girl: No Gunshot PSA 
Sister Nancy: Bam Bam 
Maxine & Jahnet: One Light, Four Wheels 
The Slits: Cry Baby
Hollie Cook WPKN ID 
Hollie Cook: Ari Up
Lady Ann: Informer (Murderer)
Revelation: With You Boy 
J.C. Lodge: Someone Loves You Honey
Sade: By Your Side (reggae mix) 
Aswad: Finger Gun Style
Tappa Zukie: M P L A
Bob Marley & The Wailers: Exodus
Bunny Wailer: Dream Land
Fred Locks: Black Star Liner 
Burning Spear: Slavery Days
Dr. Alimantado: Born For A Purpose / Reason For Living 
Junior Murvin: Cool Out Son
Ijahman Levi: Africa 
Ijahman Levi: Afrodub
Joe Gibbs & The Professionals: Dub Three
The Upsetters: Corn Fish Dub
Augustus Pablo: King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown
African Head Charge: Take Heed & Smoke up Your Collyweed (ft King Cry Cry)
U-Roy: Chalice In The Palace
Jah Lion: Columbia Colly 
Mungo's Hi Fi: I Need Weed (feat Soom T)
Reggae Roast: Sensi Skank Reloaded (feat. Ruben Da Silva) 
Sugar Minott: Riddim
Sugar Minott: Rub-A-Dub Sound

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