Alternative Colchester
Alternative Colchester is where football rivalry meets punk rock passion.
Join Tim Young (Labour councillor, former Colchester mayor, and die hard Ipswich Town fan) and Steve Green (Special Duties founder and long suffering Colchester United supporter) as they prove that two blokes who disagree about football can agree that 1977 changed everything.
They were both in the room when Stiff Little Fingers supported Tom Robinson Band at Essex University in 1978 - they just didn’t know it until 2023. Now they’re bringing that shared punk spirit to the airwaves with fierce football debate, classic tracks from 1976 -1980, and the kind of authentic banter that can only come from forty-plus years of living the life they’re talking about.
One show. Two teams. Five decades of passion. No nostalgia without nuance. This is Alternative Colchester - because like the best punk songs, local football deserves to be loud, honest, and impossible to ignore.
Alternative Colchester
Alternative Colchester #4
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Joining Steve Green and Tim Young in this week’s episode is David Philp of Automatics fame. David has lived in Los Angeles since the early 80’s and Steve was visiting him so it made sense for Tim and producer Luke Fitch to record as usual from the University of Essex media department in Colchester and hook up with Steve and David in LA. The wonders of modern technology hey!
This episode of Alternative Colchester is an extended one in order to find out what David is doing musically these days and to hear stories of his time in London in the late 70’s. It is 48 years since the classic, Steve Lillywhite produced “When The Tanks Roll Over Poland Again” was released on Island Records and although we touch on that of course, we also discuss their brand new “Britannia” album which is available now on splatter coloured vinyl via Label 51.
Also in this episode are the usual 10 punk nuggets from 1976-1980, Col U and Ipswich football banter and even a bit of cricket thrown in for good measure.
