PURE with Howard Thompson

PURE Presents Peter Hamill (broadcast 11/21/25)

(intro) Van Der Graaf Generator: Theme One
Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill: Aguirre
Kazue Sawai, Takahashi Ayuo, Peter Hammill, Sarah Jane Morris, James Warren & Guy Evans: A Song to Fallen Blossoms
Wolfram Huschke: Black Rose
Peter Hammill: Favorit
Herbert Grönemeyer: Airplanes in My Head
Peter Hammill: Jour Apres Jour
PFM: Sea Of Memory
Alice: Now and Forever
Saro Cosentino: The Joke (feat. Peter Hammill)
Tim Bowness: We Feel
Tim Bowness & Peter Chilvers: Sleeping Face
Nic Potter: A Whiter Shade of Blue
Echo City: A Shirtful of Ice
David Jackson Aloerotic
Hugh Banton: Neptune
Peter Hammill & Guy Evans: Bounced
Roger Eno & Peter Hammill: Fall
Gary Lucas & Peter Hammill: Spinning Coins
Robert Fripp: Chicago
Peter Gabriel: Digging In the Dirt
Random Hold: Silver Spoons Golden Tongues
Notopia: Connect (feat. Peter Hammill)
The Pale Orchestra (conducted by David Thomas): Morbid Sky
Ayuo Air
Peter Hammill w/the Orchestre National de Lille: Traintime
Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill: The Day Is Done

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