Recorded before the election - a voice from the past; when there was still hope! Tories in power is not the way I want to revisit the 80s! These tracks will be scant consolation but I hope you enjoy them anyway:
1. Glaxo Babies - This Is Your Life (1979)
2. Essential Logic - Collecting Dust (1979)
3. Happy Family - Puritans (1982)
4. John Holt - For The Love Of You
5. Scars - Adult/Ery (1979)
6. Sham 69 - I Don’t Wanna (1977)
7. Basement 5 - Last White Christmas
8. Keith & Tex - Stop That Train
9. Adam & The Ants - It Doesn’t Matter (PEEL, 1978)
10. Buzzcocks - You Tear Me Up (1978)
11. Members - Love In A Lift (1979)
12. Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves (1976)
13. Mekons - I’ll Have To Dance Then On My Own (1978)
14. Passengers - Two Lovers (1979)
15. Barrington Levy - Bounty Hunter
16. Wild Swans - Revolutionary Spirit (1982)
17. Joe Jackson - Tilt (1980)
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(Show originally broadcast on Break London Radio on 9th May 2015.)
