Footprints of Love: Vaisakhi 1699 with The Cockney Sikh and Bilber Kaur (29/03/2025)

Punk fans may remember Suresh Singh as the drummer from the band Spizzenergi, who toured with Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Cure in 1979. In this charming playlist Singh shares his love for music and his Sikh immigrant parents and his childhood in Spitalfields, east London, Singh proves himself to be a candid writer and a canny curator of material that crosses family biography with postwar cultural history. His youth is filled first with National Front racism, then punk music and rebellion. He reflects the changing faces of his family and the evolution of one corner of the capital. Combined with Singh’s words and selection of music he loves, it is a timely reminder of all that modern Britishness encompasses.
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