The John Robb Tapes podcast unearths the incredible archive of old interviews that music journalist John Robb has amassed over the years, along with more recent conversations with contemporary bands, acts and figures
Episodes
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Recorded in front of a live audience at Rough Trade, Nottingham.
With its great gallery of characters, punk rock is one of those fabled eras of British pop culture full of a cast of mavericks that are deeply embedded into our cultural psyche.
Central to the story of Punk is Jordan. With her hair teased into spikes before anyone else, Mondrian face paint and wild clothes she was a wild and thrilling precursor who virtually invented punk rock as she served behind the counter of the Sex shop - the dominatrix rubber queen of the new London scene.
In this entrancing interview she tells the stories - both ribald and hilarious - of that fabled era which she shares in her book, Defying Gravity.
Swears.