Closest Thing To Heaven (North East Bands) by Post Punk Britain

Closest Thing to Heaven Radio Show December 2020
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1. Angelic Upstarts - Teenage Warning (1979)
2. Carpettes - Radio Wunderbar (1977)
3. Noise Toys - Pocket Money (1979)
4. Daintees - Look Down (EP 1986)
5. Fashionable Impure - Fight Ignorance (Demo, 1981)
6. Darkness & Jive - Tarzan (1982)
7. Hostages - Pretend You're American
8. Hurrah! - Saturday's Train (Radio Session 1982)
9. Monoconics - Exit Stage Left (Single 1980)
10. Murder The Disturbed - Captain Zero (1978)
11. Prefab Sprout - Don't Sing (1984)
12. Neon - Don't Eat Bricks (1978)
13. Punishment of Luxury - Brain Bomb (1979)
14. Penetration - Come Into The Open 1979
15. White Heat - Nervous Breakdown (1979)
16. Arthur 2 Stroke & The Chart Commandos - Who Who Song (Single 1980)-
17. Treatment Room - Shapes (Single 1980)
This show is a tie-in to 'The Closest Thing To Heaven' by Mie Fielding and Simon McKay - a photobook about north east bands who played Newcastle between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s. It's published by Tyne Bridge Publishing. It costs £7.99 and can be ordered from https://www.northern-heritage.co.uk/product/the-closest-thing-to-heaven-music-scene-in-newcastle-70s-80s

Also available in Newcastle Waterstones and can be ordered at other branches.
All royalties from the book are being donated to the Young Musicians Charity
https://www.communityfoundation.org.uk/givingandphilanthropy/collective-giving/young-musicians-fund/

Tim Jones, who is terrific at remastering i.e. beefing up audio recordings can be contacted here:
http://www.aural-innovations.com/stonepremonitions/contact.html
Find former Hurrah! members https://paulhandyside.com and Taffy, https://thegirlwiththereplaceablehead.bandcamp.com

This show is dedicated to the late Fenella Fielding who continues to be my love and my great inspiration.