Tag: The Drains

• 11 May 2021Fragments videos

  Episode 7 : Some Chicken: Jess Chicken hears a lost tape of Nottingham’s first punk group

  It’s 1977 and punk is making its mark. The Sex Pistols were prominent, especially after their headline-grabbing f-word TV interview with Bill Grundy that previous December. It was a wonderful […]

• 20 March 2021Fragments videos

  ‘Extravaganza’ will be celebrating its Golden Anniversary. But how should Ashley and John mark it?

  On Saturday morning, 2nd October 1971 schoolboy, Ashley Franklin and BBC tea boy, John Holmes walked into BBC Radio Nottingham’s Studio 1 and launched what was to become the legendary weekly […]