The Vapors – Boston – 1980 – Past Daily Lunchroom
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Category: Post-Punk
The Futureheads – Radio X -2010 – Past Daily Night Session
The Futureheads In Session 2010 I first discovered The Futureheads on Myspace around the time their second album had come out. They were gathering a good word of mouth and gigging pretty consistently. That was almost 18 years ago and a lot has happened in all that time. A
Modern English – John Peel – 1980 – Past Daily Night Session
Modern-English-Peel-Session-Nov.-11-1980 – BBC Radio 1 – Early glimpses of New Wave tonight, by way of Modern English, a band who not only pioneered a new genre in music, but also achieved hit-making cross-over status. Formed in 1979, Modern English were a four-piece from Colchester who bore a strong resemblance to
The Chameleons – John Peel – 1981 – Past Daily Night Session
The Chameleons – In Session for John Peel – June 17, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – Post-Punk/New Wave tonight from The Chameleons (or Chameleons UK), a relatively short-lived but seminal band of the early 80s, in two incarnations, with some six albums and six singles under their belts as
Wire – Bremen – 1979 – Past Daily Lunchroom
Wire – Live at Rockpalast – February 14, 1979 – WDR – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Wire this week, in concert for WDR in Germany as part of their Rockpalast series, recorded on February 14, 1979. Considered one of the pivotal bands during the transition from Punk to Post-punk,
The Auteurs – John Peel – 1996 – Past Daily Night Session
The Auteurs – in session for John Peel – Feb. 20, 1996 – BBC Radio 1 – The Auteurs for a Tuesday night. Not all that well known on this side of the Atlantic, The Auteurs were highly praised by the British music press when their debut single, Show Girl
Joy Division – Paris – 1979 – Past Daily Lunchroom
Ian Curtis of Joy Division – Cultural icon. Joy Division in concert for this Monday lunch – recorded at Les Bains Douches in Paris on December 18, 1979 for RFI – The Black Sessions. One of the pioneering bands of the Post-Punk era, Joy Division consisted of vocalist, guitarist and
The Jam In Concert – 1981 – Past Daily Brunch
The Jam – In Concert at Golders Green – December 19, 1981 – BBC In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – The Jam in concert this weekend. One of the bands that epitomized Punk and Mod revival, The Jam were huge throughout the UK and the rest of
Siouxsie And The Banshees – Cologne – 1981 – Past Daily Lunchroom
Siouxsie Sioux. – And where would the 80s be without her? Siouxsie And The Banshees this afternoon – recorded at Sartory Säle in Cologne on July 19, 1981 by West German Radio. Finding good sounding (i.e. soundboard) recordings of almost any period of Siouxsie and The Banshees concerts is difficult
The Pill – Steve Lamacq – 2025 – Past Daily Night Session
The Pill – in session for Steve Lamacq – BBC 6 Music on June 9, 2025. Making the choice not to make Monday night mellow, by any stretch of the imagination, a little high-voltage brain scrambling from The Pill. The non-conforming pop-culture website Dork had a few pithy things to