5th of March - International Women's Day/Women's History Month Special

Give this a listen on the Near FM Mixcloud or email me for a download.

Tracklist:

The Bags - Babylonian Gorgon (1978)

The Raincoats - Fairytale In The Supermarket (1979)

Kleenex - Ain't You (1978)

Patti Smith - My Generation (1976)

Patti Smith - Redondo Beach (1975)

The Bodysnatchers - Easy Life (1980)

Vital Disorders - (Let's Talk About) Prams (1981)

Poison Girls - I'm Not A Real Woman (1984)

Crass - Poison In A Pretty Pill (1981)

Lost Cherrees - Living In A Coffin (1984)

Lost Cherrees - Sexism's Sick (1984)

Poison Girls - Mandy Is Having A Baby (1982)

Chumbawamba - Fade Away (I Don't Want To Fade Away) (2005)

She/Her/Hers - Gender Is Boring (2018)

Pink Turds In Space - Teenage Kicks (1990?) ☘

Surge - Witchfinder (2016) ☘

Special Guest - The New VR Ted Bundy Biopic (2026)

M(h)aol - Gender Studies (2021) ☘

Gender Chores - Legisl8 (2019) ☘

Sissy ft. Radie Peat - Sail and Rail (2017) ☘

Notes:

I accidentally said Sail and Rail was about the "push for the 8th amendment". It is very much about the push against the 8th amendment, which enshrined the right to life of the unborn child in the Irish constitution from 1983 to 2018.

You should watch the very good music video for that song.

My comments about this episode on Mastodon.

That Guardian article reporting on the pathetic delusions of Gen Z men

"Almost a quarter (24%) of gen Z males think women should not appear too independent or self-sufficient, compared with 12% of baby boomer men. [...] Attitudes toward sexual norms also differed sharply across generations, with 21% of gen Z males thinking a “real woman” should never initiate sex [...] Thirty percent of gen Z males believed men should not say “I love you” to their friends

Under The Pavement Radio, who recently interviewed the author of a book about the Poison Girls

February 26th - LGBT+ History Month Special

Listen to this episode on the Near FM Mixcloud! If you need a download, email me and I'll send you the file.

Míle buíochas to Robin from Survival Horror, who made lots of great UK queer HC suggestions, most of which I wasn't able to fit into the show.

Track listing:

Patti Smith - Gloria

The Radiators From Space - Faithful Departed ☘

Tom Robinson Band - Up Against The Wall

Sister George - 100 x No (Glad To Be Gay)

Chant! Chant! Chant! - Quicksand ☘

Nun Attax - Looking For Words For My Book ☘

Lou Reed - America

Lou Reed - Kill Your Sons

Problem Patterns - Song For Fi ☘

Surge - Avalanche ☘

Strong Boys - Pink Death ☘

Limp Wrist - Limp Wrist

Homomilitia - Policja

Chumbawamba - Smash Clause 28!

Gender Warfare - Queers To The Front

Notes:

LOU REED: They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland County then to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page seventeen and have to go right back to page one again.

To view Eoin Freeney's lecture from the Philip Chevron Summer School, go here.

For more information about Dylan Scholinski's experience with psychiatrically-mandated conversion therapy in 1980s America, go here or here.

For more information about Sophie Gwen Williams, who I think is the subject of "Song For Fi", see the Trans Day of Remembrance website.

My comments about the episode on Mastodon.

Number of bands featured in the promotional material who appeared in the final playlist: 5/7

Number of bands I said I'd finally play this week but I didn't: 2

"I'm trying to travel too much territory here..."

February 19^th 2026: PUNC Returns

I have an mp3 recording of this episode but I haven't uploaded it anywhere yet. If you need a download, email me and I'll send you the file.

Tracklist:

☘ Problem Patterns - I Think You Should Leave (2024)

SNFU - The Devil's Voice (1986)

Downtown Boys - Monstro (2015)

Downtown Boys - Dancing In The Dark (2015/1984)

☘ Radiators From Space - Television Screen [live] (1987)

☘ Peer Pleasure - Shed Residents (2026)

☘ Peer Pleasure - Rest In Bits (2024)

Bikini Kill - Suck My Left One (1991)

Bikini Kill - Tony Randall (1996)

☘ SYMPOS - Up To Speed (2021)

☘ CHERYM - Gone Girl (2021)

MDC - Born To Die (1982)

Dogs - Gotta Tell Her (1979)

MDC - I Do Not Wish (19??)

☘ Radiators From Space - Television Screen, Encore [live] (1987)

Show notes:

I got a request for a song by Adore or the Pills but for boring technical reasons I wasn't able to play the song I picked this week. I will play it next week!

Number of bands featured in the promotional material who appeared in the final playlist: 5/9.

The live Radiators tracks are from Dollar For Your Dreams Explanded, a great 1987 live Radiators album that got rereleased in the autumn of 2024, just after I stopped doing the PUNC show for a while! I hope to play some more tracks from it in the future. There's a 7 minute version of Faithful Departed on there that's an absolute knockout.

And finally, here are some of the notes I made while I was putting together this episode:

"We have to make our own culture & we have to keep remaking it as they try to co-opt it. OK??? OK!!!"

"Why do you think the Irish government supplies so much arts funding? It's not just because the arts contribute so much €€€ to the Irish economy, although it IS to keep you thinking that the point of art is to add value to the Irish economy. It is a BRIBE to artists.

(The phrase "so much" removed because on reflection I don't know how much arts funding the Irish government supplies either per capita or in comparison with equivalent European nations)

"We're coming at 2026 with a pessimism of the intellect but an optimism of the will + a belief that we can be better and our communities can be better."

"The Irish music scene is at risk of becoming self-satisfied. It risks being complacent. It risks feeding back into + benefiting the systems it's supposedly against"

/end cod-situationist blather.