For Gab Fest 5 we have picked our top 10 songs from 1978. The third year of punk, a sound evolving and ready to explode and inspire
Book of the Week – the education of an idealist
Deep down it is a story of some hope. I have opinions on foreign policy and neo liberalism. I feel a torch needs to be shone on human rights abuses and Power is helping to shine a dim light. Hopefully it is one that never fades.
Hope Show 152 – the lowdown
Hope Show 152 with punk rock, electronic but always a passion for music and change
Hope Show 151 – Gabfest 4 1977
Gabfest 4 picks 10 singles from 1977 that have stood the test of time and have influenced a musical generation or 2
Book of the Week – A Movable Feast
Classic writing from Ernest Hemingway, a memoir of his time in Paris
Book of the Week – Last Man Standing
They say you must be mad to want to be a goalkeeper and while this book humanises the people involved their madness shines right throughout the 300 pages.
Hope Show 150 – Gabfest 3 1976
So for GabFest *3 myself and Michael have decided to start where music started for us 1976. We chat about the times and the influence many of these bands had.
Book of the Week – Punk Faction BHP Fanzine
A flashback and important document of the UK punk scene in the early 1990's
Play of the day – Moral Mazes
With a back catalog of bands such as Kerosene 454, Channels, Office of Future Plans, Jawbox, Burning Airlines, The Bomb, Airstream Futures and Amusement Parks on Fire this was always bound to be a perfect guitar driven sound
Hope Show 149 – the lowdown
Tonights show. 18 slabs of punk with new songs from J Robbins, MC16, Fatherfigures, Soft On Crime, Zero Again and so many others