bec-2-03-logoSydney Fileen returns Friday at 3 PM with a brand-new episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat on The AIR. You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on this embedded radio player…

Back in fighting trim after the recent flu outbreak at Haversham Recording Institute, Fileen presents two hours of terrific New Wave-era music. There may even be a subtle theme to this week’s show. Check out the playlist:

The Clash  “Know Your rights”
M  “Official Secrets”
Elvis Costello  “Two Little Hitlers”
Theatre of Hate  “Do You Believe in the Westorld”
The Plugz  “Mindless Contentment”
Hazel O’Connor  “Big Brother”
The The  “The Beaten Generation”
New Model Army  “No Rest”
Joe Jackson  “Right And Wrong”
Laibach  “Sympathy For The Devil”
The Sex Pistols  “Holiday In The Sun”
Stiff Little Fingers  “Guilty As Sin”
Talking Heads  “Burning Down The House”
Boomtown Rats  “Banana Republic”
DEVO  “Freedom of Choice”
Depeche Mode  “People Are People”
Spear of Destiny  “Never Take Me Alive”
Kate Bush  “Army Dreamers”
The Buggles  “Living In The Plastic Age”
The Beat  “Whine and Grind/Stand Down Margaret”
The Specials  “Racist Friend”
Gang of Four  “To Hell With Poverty”
The Stranglers  “No More Heroes”
Funboy Three “The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum”
Tom Robinson Band  “Up Against The Wall”
The Vapors  “Cold War”
The Dead Kennedys  “Kill The Poor”
The Dickies  “Paranoid”
The Police  “When The World Is Running Down”

Sydney’s Big Electric Cat can be heard Friday at 3 PM on The AIR, with replays Saturday at 2 PM, Sunday at 6 PM, Monday at 7 PM, and Tuesday at 8 PM. Look for a special Toy Fair Preview edition of The PopCulteer this afternoon.