#2 - John Esplen (Overground records, Vinylonthe.net)

Destroy Before Listening

John Esplen has been involved in punk since the 70s and while not the vocalist in a name band he is always busy behind the scenes. There is definitely a reason Henry Rollins goes around to John's house whenever he is in Newcastle. He's been buying and selling records for decades now with vinylonthe.net being the home to his massive second hand business. He also began the Overground label in 1988 which continues to this day putting out many previously unreleased archive recordings. He also ran the One Louder label in the 1990s who were responsible for exposing Man or Astro Man? within Europe.

If this doesn't sound like enough John runs Wipeout music publishing whose top clients would be Sleaford Mods. Also to mention here is his relationship to the story of the Dickies. Top bloke!

Edit: There are some problems with the audio in places that I just cannot account for unfortunately? All I can think is that it was the height of Summer and the bandwidth was actually melting before our ears...

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Music:

Intro

Solanki - 'Bureaucracy'

Outro

Man or Astro Man? - 'Mission Into Chaos!'

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