Dancing in the Rubble

Pete Fulwell, co-founder of Eric's nightclub, documents the second wave of Liverpool music and the cultural, political and social influences of the early 1980s that fuelled it. The story includes major and minor artists of the time, from Echo and the Bunnymen and Wah! to Cook Da Books and Send No Flowers, and illustrates how this second generation's music rejected the legacy of The Beatles.

Peter Hooton, who is interviewed here as co-editor of fanzine The End, later formed pop band The Farm, whose biggest hit, All Together Now, featured backing vocals from Pete Wylie.

↗ Originally broadcast 29 October 1982

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