Sweder Wrote:Was this a collection of Whistle Test/ Later performances?
I clocked that too, and yes it was related in as much as BBC4 are having/ just had a New York season. Although I have no great affinity with the city I found the programs fascinating. For one thing they exploded the myth that the punk movement was an entirely British invention.
Yes, that was the one. Interesting stuff, especially to someone like me who missed out on the punk thing. I was well into my blues and ragtime period in the late 70s....
I mentioned in an entry that I belatedly discovered The Clash. Mick Jones is a big QPR fan and used to sit along from me, but he lapsed the season before I did. Glen Matlock's another figure sometimes seen at Loftus Road. Much of it is a bit too hard-core for me. That's not disapproval, just an observation that you probably had to be there at the time. Trying to belatedly enjoy Siouxsie & the Banshees or The Damned from this 49 year old tower isn't that easy.
I did get quite excited by the stuff that came afterwards -- The Jam and The Stranglers (am thinking about catching the Wellerless Jam at a Reading gig coming up soon) but I wasn't quite in the right place at the right time for the heavy duty earlier stuff.
