Keith Levene sadly passed away in his home in Norfolk on 11 November 2022, aged 65.  He had been battling liver cancer. He was a hugely influential figure on the early London punk explosion.  What set him apart from many of his peers, was in a scene based around a DIY- play three chord ethos, Keith really could play. A gifted guitarist, he liked to experiment and push the envelope. In the summer of 1976, he was a founding member of The Clash.  However, shortly after recruiting Joe Strummer, Keith left the band. After the Sex Pistols imploded in 1978, John Lydon asked Keith to jo ..read more

In 1977 Horace Panter was recruited by fellow art student Jerry Dammers, at Coventry’s Lanchester Polytechnic to join his band The Automatics.  The band became The Specials. They led the British ska revival of the late 1970s and created the highly influential 2 Tone Record label. Their hybrid of old school Jamaican dance music, punk attitude, ant-racism stance and social awareness made them one of the most revered bands in the history of popular music. Horace Panter is still playing bass with The Specials who reformed in 2008 after the band acrimoniously imploded in 1981 when their classi ..read more

SPIZZENERGI are best known for the punk anthem ‘Where’s Captain Kirk’ which became the first record to top the UK Independent Singles Chart when it launched in January 1980.  They were also known for changing the name of the band every year.  Front man Spizz looks back on a 45 year career in punk rock including touring with Siouxsie and the Banshees, working back stage for The Clash and finally meeting his hero William Shatner ..read more

Paul Holloway's second guest on Fuzzcast is Wilko Johnson. Wilko made his name as guitar player and songwriter with Dr Feelgood. Hailing out of Canvey Island the band are widely acknowledged as the best band on London’s pub rock scene in the mid 70’s which heavily influenced the birth of punk rock. The band were riding high after their live album Stupidity topped the UK charts in 1976 but Wilko left the Feelgood’s after a spectacular bust up with frontman Lee Brilleaux whilst recording the band’s fourth album Sneaking Suspicion the following year. Wilko was later invited to join the Blockheads ..read more

Welcome to Fuzzcast, episode one -  The Sound of the Suburbs with JC Carroll from The Members. Guitarist JC was one half of the principal songwriting partnership in the band with front man Nicky Tesco. JC & Nicky both originally from the leafy Surry commuter town of Camberley but the band made it’s name in and around West London. Best known for the punk anthem ‘Sound of The Suburbs’, The Members were a key part of the London punk explosion released three studio albums in the band’s first spell together between 1976-83. They were signed by legendary label Stiff Records, then Virgin, th ..read more

In the long hot English summer of 1976, a spark was lit that would change the face of popular music, forever. British punk started as an alternative underground live music scene in sweaty clubs and pubs around London’s west end and Camden town. Spearheaded by The Sex Pistols and The Clash and inspired by the New York punk scene, London’s pub rock circuit and a learn three chords and do it yourself ethos - that spark became a flame which spread like wildfire all cross the nation. Paul Holloway is a radio presenter who  in 2008 I launched a late night  show called Fuzzbox on Pure Radio ..read more

Welcome to Fuzzcast A podcast which talks to some of the musicians at the centre of the punk, new wave and ska explosion which in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s changed the face of popular music, forever and for better. This extended teaser includes audio from the Fuzzbox radio show archives including clips with Pauline Black (The Selecter), Jah Wobble (PiL & Invaders of the Heart), Hugh Cornwell (ex-Stranglers), Wilko Johnson (Dr Feelgood, Blockheads, Game of Thrones), Buster Bloodvessel (Bad Manners), John Cooper Clarke, Ranking Roger (The Beat), Jake Burns (Stiff Little Fingers), Sir ..read more