In the tone of it, I'm reminded of nobody so much as neurotic old Brit comedians, Kenneth Williams or Hancock, the weirdness of their emotional hygiene, the horror at the approach of their ogres. This is channel-hopping faster than eye or ear, driven by panic and punctuated with nervous jokes. There's no sense of an overarching schema, no symphony, no grand homophonic ending. But this isn't a poem containing history, it makes a point of dodging all but an immediacy flash-fried and box-fresh. The '*' refers to the 'select all' function in databases and the poem duly takes its Poundian slice of everything. * is a poem of hard surfaces – hi-shine fake oak counters, faces on monitors talking adspeak, food suffocated in its wrapper, cheap jewels, 2 nd hand software. When I read it now, I can picture Tom's face part-shadowed, reading in one of those nonspace corporate bars that we usher our lives through. It's a gesture that characterises this book-length poem, there's a haunted feel to the thing. Got a request? Requests will be considered for future episodes as long as they fit the show’s format and generally within the 1stWave era - and provided the host doesn’t harbor an intense dislike of the song.Online, if you watch the launch of Tom Jenks's new poem '*' you'll see him look off to the side as if something has spooked him. LaTour, “Allen’s Got a New Hi-Fi” (LaTour)ĬCCP, “American Soviets” (Original Mix) (American Soviets) Ramjac Corporation, “Cameroon Massif!” (Massive Mix) (Cameroon Massif!) The Mission, “1969” (Live) (The First Chapter)Įnglish Boy on the Loveranch, “Sex Vigilante” (12-Inch Mix) (Sex Vigilante) The Misfits, “Last Caress” (Collection 2) The March Violets, “Grooving in Green” (The Botanic Verses) The Damned, “Smash It Up Parts 1 & 2” (Machine Gun Etiquette) The Sisters of Mercy, “Torch” (Floodland) Joy Division, “Dead Souls” (Heart and Soul) Peter Gabriel, “Intruder” (Peter Gabriel) Slowdive, “Sugar For the Pill” (Slowdive)ĭrop Nineteens, “My Aquariaum (Second Time Around)” (Your Aquarium EP) Tones on Tail, “The Never Never (Is Forever)” (Weird Pop) Sex Gang Children, “Shattered Room” (Medea) Wolfsheim, “The Sparrows and the Nightingales” (No Happy View) Xmal Deutschland, “Incubus Succubus II” (Tocsin) Virgin Prunes, “Pagan Lovesong” (Heresie) The Smiths, “Rubber Ring” (Louder Than Bombs)Įcho & The Bunnymen, “Blue Blue Ocean” (Echo & The Bunnymen) The Psychedelic Furs, “I Wanna Sleep With You” (Talk Talk Talk) The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Some Candy Talking” (Some Candy Talking) Nitzer Ebb, “Family Man” (Jaz Coleman Mix) (Ebbhead) My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “These Remains” (I See Good Spirits, I See Bad Spirits) Lead Into Gold, “Faster Than Light” (Age of Reason) Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Sin In My Heart” (Juju)Ĭhristian Death, “Ten Thousand Hundred Times” (Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ) The Cure, “A Japanese Dream” (12-Inch Remix) (Mixed Up: Deluxe Edition) Public Image Ltd., “Penge” (End of World)
Magazine, “A Song From Under the Floorboards” (Peel Session) (The Complete John Peel Sessions) Modern English, “Swans on Glass” (Life in the Gladhouse)
Mission of Burma, “Academy Fight Song” (Signals, Calls, and Marches)īauhaus, “Rosegarden Funeral of Sores” (In the Flat Field)įields of the Nephilim, “Slowkill” (Dawnrazor) The most recent two episodes are also available to subscribers to stream on demand via the SXM app.
Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio’s 1st Wave (Channel 33). “Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m.
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