UKNY For July 23
Ultimate Painting's James Hoare and Jack Cooper (photo by John Sturdy, PR)
This week's FUV Essentials artist is the Ramones who were as important to Britain as they were to New York. Forty years ago this month, on July 4, 1976, the Ramones played the biggest show of their life at London's Roundhouse on a bill with Flamin' Groovies and the Stranglers. That same evening in Sheffield, the Clash played their very first gig at the Black Swan pub, opening for the Sex Pistols. The next day, on July 5, 1976, the Clash's Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, and Paul Simonon, along with members of the Sex Pistols, the Damned and other British punk bands, saw the Ramones play Dingwalls in Camden to catch the Ramones play another set. Said Strummer, "Had that [first] Ramones album not existed, I don't know that we could have built a scene here. It fulfilled a vital gap, if you like, between the death of the old pub rocking scene and the advent of punk."
On UKNY at 11, a set dedicated to those historic two days of British and American punk history, plus new releases from Ultimate Painting (pictured), M.I.A., Manchester's Whyte Horses, and the return of Skunk Anansie, bound for Brooklyn's Afropunk Festival this August.
Missed the show? You can catch up to UKNY in the FUV Weekend Archives for two weeks after broadcast.
Songs played:
1. Whyte Horses, “Promise I Do,” Pop or Not
2. Escapade, “Stepping Stones,” Stepping Stones EP
3. Ultimate Painting, “Bills,” Dusk
4. M.I.A., “Go Off,” A.I.M.
5. Wild Beasts, "Celestial Creatures," Boy King
6. Skunk Anansie, “Without You,” Anarchytecture
7. James Blake feat. Justin Vernon, “I Need A Forest Fire,” The Colour in Anything
8. Ramones, “Havana Affair,” Ramones
9. Sex Pistols, “Pretty Vacant,” Never Mind the Bollocks: Here’s the Sex Pistols
10. Joe Strummer discussing the Ramones (a brief excerpt from End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones)
11. The Clash, “I’m So Bored with the U.S.A.,” The Clash
12. Commonwealth Cut (Auckland, New Zealand): The Naked and Famous, “Higher,” Simple Forms
13. Commonwealth Cut (Toronto, CA), Holy F**k, “Shivering,” Congrats
14. Michael Kiwanuka, “Place I Belong,” Love & Hate
15. Radiohead, “True Love Waits,” A Moon-Shaped Pool
