Radio - Sunday, July 27th, 2014

The Angelic Upstarts are one of my all time favourite punk bands. My brother had a copy of "Angel Dust" when we were kids that I listened to the grooves out of. When I found out they were coming to town I worked every angle I knew trying to get an interview. Even on the day of I still wasn't sure that the interview would happen. The Prowlers and AFA brought the upstarts here at the end of May this year and the promoter (Ewan) had told me when to show up to the club and wait around. he was a huge help in introducing us to Mensi and Mensi agreed to a sit down that was recorded. I was super nervous about meeting this singer that I have so much respect for and have held onto many of his lyrics so it was a dream to be able to ask him about songs that I had only ever wondered about. For the show I live mixed in songs from the Upstarts back catalogue that get asked about in the interview. Hope you enjoy this retrospective look at these fascist fighting oi boys from the north who dared to stand up to Thatcher and her tory vendetta to break the miners. 

ANGELIC UPSTARTS - I'm an Upstart (Warner Brothers)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - South Shields: Born and Bred (Insurgence)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - We gotta to get outta this place (Warner Brothers)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Kids in the Street (EMI)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Teenage Warning (Warner Brothers)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - England (EMI)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Liddle Towers (Warner Brothers)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Police Oppression (Warner Brothers)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - I Understand (EMI)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Machine Gun Kelly (Picasso)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Never 'ad Nothin' (Warner Brothers)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Two Million Voices (EMI)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - King Coal (Warner Brothers)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Heath's Lament (EMI)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Flames of Brixton (EMI)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Rude Boy (Picasso)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Joe Where are you know (Gas Music Limited)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Capital City (Warner Brothers)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Nazi BNP
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Student Power (Warner Brothers)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Guns for the Afghan Rebels (EMI)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Blood on the Terraces (Chameleon)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Soldier (EMI)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Interview (CIUT)
ANGELIC UPSTARTS - Still Fighting

We have already said our thanks to Ewan Exall for stickhandling things at the gig, but we also want to thank Sylvain from the Prowlers for booking the Upstarts in the first place. And if it wasn't for the technical work of Lenora Taylor and Mike Gorman we would have had a crappier audio file which you can download here.