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Shonen Knife

The hardest-working ladies in pop punk are back in session! Must be Shonen Knife!

The hardest working ladies in pop punk are back in session tonight! Must be Shonen Knife!

Shonen Knife started out back in 1981 in Osaka, Japan, at a time when all-female punk groups weren't common place.

Taking their influences from 1970s punk/pop/new wave, Naoko Yamano, Ritsuko Taneda and Emi Morimoto, describe their sound as "oo-oo-ultra-eccentric-super-cult-punk-pop-band-shonen-knife". It is a sound that has attracted a lot of attention over the years from the likes of Kurt Cobain, Fugazi, BMX Bandits and John Peel all being fans.

With so many releases they could open a Shonen Knife record shop (latest is Pop Tune on Damnably), their last session was loud and exciting and we've no reason to suspect this one will be any different.

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Tue 2 Oct 2012 19:00
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    Napoleon Loves Josephine

  • Golden Fable

    Chill pt1

  • Radiohead

    Maquiladora (Evening Session session 14.9.1994)

  • Mark Lanegan

    Hit the City

    • bubblegum.
    • Beggars Banquet Records Ltd.
    • 002.

  • Bob Mould

    Fugue State

    • silver age.
    • edsel recordings.
    • 006.

  • Johnny Otis

    Watts Breakaway

    • Land of a Thousand Dances.
    • Kent.

  • The Who

    The Good's Gone (Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ session 22.11.1966)

  • Micachu & the Shapes

    Holiday

    • Never.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 007.

  • Killing Joke

    Chop-Chop

  • Dutch Uncles

    Fester

    • Memphis Industries.

  • Denim

    Summer Smash

    • EMI.

  • John Barry

    Midnight Cowboy

    • The Best of John Barry.
    • Polydor.
    • 009.

  • Joni Mitchell

    Raised on Robbery

    • hits.
    • SONY/ATV MUSIC PUBLISHING.

  • Sheep, Stealing

    The Garden

    • Into the Diamond Sun.
    • Heavenly.
    • 001.

  • Thee Hypnotics

    Soul Trader - Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Session 28/03/1989

  • The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

    Devil Look Like Angels

  • Caitlin Rose

    Lately I've Let Things Slide

    • The Songs Of Nick Lowe.
    • Fiesta Red.
    • 001.

  • Cornershop

    Butter The Soul - Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Session 06/05/1998

Broadcast

  • Tue 2 Oct 2012 19:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music

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