Friday, 2 September 2016

PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit 180 – Post-Punk Postcards

Strange Fruit is a unique two-hour radio show exploring the world of underground, strange and generally neglected music. All shows are themed and all shows set out to give the most hardened of sound-hounds some new delight to sample. The show is also unique in providing homework for undergraduate students on North West Kent College’s Foundation Degree in Professional Writing (who dig up many of the odd facts featured in the links between tracks). The show is broadcast on Miskin Radio every Sunday from 10-00-midnight.

Every other week the show is now presented by Jeremy Smith and as the two promotional pictures that he sent consisted as one of him covered in mud and the other of him covered in guinea pigs he is obviously mad as a bagful of cheese, which means he will fit in here just fine!

He writes: I’ve been a huge music fan ever since my parents bought me a transistor radio and I would listen to the sixties pirate music stations at nights under the covers. This love of live music has stayed with me to this day and I still love standing in a small club like the Borderline in London with some mates and watching a band with a pint in my hand. With the Strange Fruit radio show, I want to continue the trend of doing themed shows and playing the music I love z

Strange Fruit 180 – Post-Punk Postcards

Songs by artists influenced by Punk but slightly more melodic. Well in most cases! 
 
Featured Album:  Echo and the Bunnymen: Crocodiles
 
Tracks: 
1  A Teardrop Explodes: Reward
2  The Cramps: Goo Goo Muck
3  Wire: Map Ref. 41 Degrees N 93 Degrees W
4  Half Man Half Biscuit: Joy Division Oven Gloves
5  Joy Division: Transmission
6  Echo and the Bunnymen: Going Up
7  Echo and the Bunnymen: Stars are Stars
8  Orange Juice: Rip It Up
9  Theatre of Hate: Rebel Without a Brain
10  The Monochrome Set: Letter from Viola
11  Rip Rig and Panic: Storm the Reality Asylum
12  John Foxx: No One Driving
13  The Cure: A Forest
14  Magazine: Rhythm of Cruelty
15  Killing Joke: Love Like Blood
16  That Petrol Emotion: Can't Stop
17  The Fall: Rebellious Jukebox
18  Television: See No Evil
19  Pere Ubu: Non-Alignment Pact
20  Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance
21  Echo and the Bunnymen: Rescue
22  Echo and the Bunnymen: Villiers Terrace
23  Echo and the Bunnymen: Crocodiles
24  The Soft Boys: I Wanna Destroy You
25  Tracey Thorn: Small Town Girl
26  The Psychedelic Furs: India
27  The Psychedelic Furs: Sister Europe
28  The Smiths: Hand in Glove
29  Big Country: In a Big Country
30  Alternative TV: Viva La Rock'n'Roll


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