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Not many punk rock songs are written about seagulls stealing boyfriends but the B-52s managed to do it in 1980 for the Wild Planet LP. Who needs boy meets girl when you can have boy kidnapped by bird ?
Also tonight there's one of the lesser singles by the Buzzcocks - I say lesser advisedly because 'Harmony In My Head' wasn't a Pete Shelley song. Steve Diggle wrote it and sang it and when they appeared on Top Of The Pops Mr Shelley looked a bit lost in his role as supporting player. Of course, he sometimes looked lost when he was out front singing as well. It was the only time I ever met the Buzzcocks, during that TOTP appearance. I say 'met' when it was really a quick 'hello'. The Undertones were also performing that day - can't remember our song but I suspect it was Here Comes The Summer, it being the summer of 1979. Damian O'Neill and I used the occasion to be part of the Top Of The Pops audience, avoiding being run over by cameras and being herded from one fake plastic stage to the other. A careful study of video footage of the Buzzcocks performance reveals a seconds worth ofÌýthe back of my head while another extract shows Damian straining his neckÌýin search of a camera to look into. TVÌýdoes strange things to impressionable people.

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B 52s - Give Me Back My Man
Buzzcocks - Harmony In My Head
The Wind - Wonder Track
Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul pt 1
MC5 - Shaking StreetÌý
Tiny Town - Know Better
Nerves - Hanging On The Telephone
X - Poor Girl
Rudi - Without You
Dictators - Whats Up With That ?
Human League - You’ve Lost That Lovin Feelin’
Girls At Our Best - Warm Girls
Fleshtones - The Girl From Baltimore
Wolfhounds - Anti Midas Touch
Dils - Mr BigÌý

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