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The Three Johns

Hello there, look who Marc has in session! Only the blooming Three Johns, that's who!

Hello there, look who we have in session tonight! Only the blooming Three Johns that's who!

Jon Langford, John Hyatt and Phillip "John" Brennan are currently back with a five date tour around the UK, the first live dates since 2006. The Leeds based band that formed back in 1981, just before the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Diana, were totally different to Langford's main band The Mekons.

The Three John's were a silly/serious bunch at the height of Thatcher's Britain who played pure pop punk with a left leaning and were often seen as a socialist band. But as they were once quoted saying; "We're not a socialist band. We're a group of socialists who are in a band. It's a fine distinction but an important one".

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Tue 8 May 2012 19:00
麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • The Three Johns

    Death Of The European

  • The Table

    Do the Standing Still

    • 1 2 3 4.
    • Universal.
    • 015.

  • Milk Maid

    Do Right

    • Fat Cat.

  • King Creosote

    Double Underneath

    • I Learned From The Gaels.
    • Domino.

  • Laurel Aitken

    Rudi Got Married - 麻豆官网首页入口 Session 28/04/1980

  • The Three Johns

    Coals To Newcastle

  • The Travellers

    Teenage Machine Age

    • Mad Daddy's Maddest Spins.
    • Righteous Recordings.
    • 019.

  • Hank Williams

    Settin' the Woods on Fire

    • 24 Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury Nashville.
    • 017.

  • Xerox Teens

    Darlin'

    • Big Billy Records.

  • Charlie Boyer

    You Haven't Got A Chance

    • Blank Editions.

  • Vivian Stanshall

    Sir Henry at Rawlinson End part 2 May 11th 1977

  • The Three Johns

    Secret Agent

  • The Three Johns

    World Of The Workers

  • Euros Childs

    Shithausen

  • Ween

    Voodoo Lady

    • Chocolate and Cheese.
    • Flying Nun.
    • 010.

  • Jess Roberts

    Voodoo Woman

    • Static Caravan.

  • The Magnetic North

    Rackwick

    • Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North.
    • Full Time Hobby.
    • 005.

  • Crass

    Shaved Woman - John Peel session 28/03/1979

  • The Royal We

    All The Rage

    • Geographic.

  • Veronica Falls

    My Heart Beats

    • Bella Union.

  • Caravan

    In The Land Of Grey And Pink

  • Cate Le Bon

    Falcon Eyed

  • Iggy and The Stooges

    I Need Somebody

    • Raw Power.
    • Legacy.
    • 006.

  • North Atlantic Oscillation

    Chirality

    • Fog Electric.
    • Kscope.
    • 002.

  • Dr. John

    Locked Down

  • Carl Perkins

    honky tonk gal/babe (alt 4)

  • Perfume Genius

    Dark Parts

    • Matador.

Broadcast

  • Tue 8 May 2012 19:00
    麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 6 Music

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