PURE with Howard Thompson

Fish & Chips actual

The Zambonis: Let's Skate 
Slade: When The Chips Are Down 
Samantha Fish: I'll Come Running Over
Dr. John, the Night Tripper: Chippy, Chippy 
Chris Rea: Gone Fishing
David Porter: When The Chips Are Down 
Neneh Cherry: Trout (feat. Michael Stipe) 
Jack Clement: Let the Chips Fall 
The Marvelettes: Too Many Fish In The Sea 
Chuck Berry: Fish & Chips
Angelfish: Suffocate Me 
Wayne Jarrett: Chip In 
Loudon Wainwright III: Big Fish 
Kirsty MacColl: There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis 
Wynonie Harris: Fishtail Blues 
Aretha Franklin: Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (Chips Moman/Dan Penn)
The Turtles: You Showed Me (Chip Douglas)
P.P. Arnold: Angel Of The Morning (Chip Taylor)
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five: Saturday Night Fish 
Young MC: All That and a Bag of Chips (Demo) 
The Pixies: Manta Ray 
Slim Gaillard: Potato Chips 
Big Hard Excellent Fish: Imperfect List 
The Chips: Rubber Biscuit 
Robyn Hitchcock: Parachutes & Jellyfish
Fat Les: Who Invented Fish & Chips? 
The Jim Jones Revue: Fish 2 Fry
Tex Pistols: There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis 
Gary Lucas & Toni Dezso: Trout Fishing In Trump America 
Hot Chip: Huarache Lights 
Rory Gallagher: Loanshark Blues 
Alejandro Escovedo: Chip N' Tony
Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks: Bad Baby
Andre Williams & The Sadies: She's a Bag of Potato Chips 
Kevin Ayers: The Oyster And The Flying Fish (feat. Bridget St. John) 
John Hiatt: Wood Chipper
Fluke: Atom Bomb 
Canned Heat w/the Chipmunks: Chipmunk Song 
The Damned: Fish 
Isaac Hayes: Chocolate Chip (instr.) 
Groove Armada: At the River 
Norridge Mayhams & the Blue Chips: Stay on the Right Side of the Road
Travis Matte & the Kingpins: Crawfish Boogie
The Troggs: Wild Thing (Chip Taylor)
Joe Brown: Fishin' Blues 

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