The Radiators from Space, in my opinion, are up there with The Blades and The Atrix as being one of the best bands ever to come out of this city. Their two albums TV Tube Heart (1977) and Ghost town (1979) are played at least once a week on my Ipod, laptop or CD player.
I was lucky enough to catch them supporting The Pogues in The Point in December 2006. The internet has been awash with excitement ever since Mr. Chevron announced back in August that a new Radiators “album and an accompanying television film” were in the pipeline.
Anyway, earlier in the week I had an epiphany. While humming the (classic) opening chords of The Radiators from Space’s first single Television Screen, I soon found myself singing the chorus of Nut Rocker, the 1962 instrumental from B. Bumble and the Stingers.
I think they share a pretty similar tune. What do you think?
I’m talking about the score at 0:23.
The Radiators’ intro is faster and rougher (and has no piano) but is essentially the same tune? Perhaps Chevron and the boys were more influenced by rock n roll than I thought originally?
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Donal
Ciarán
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Come Here To Me! 
If you listen to early punk bands a lot of them play standard 12 bar rock n roll riffs. listen to the riff after the start of new rose by the damned, listen to pistols songs, listen to born to lose by johnny thunders, listen to johnny moped etc, 50’s rock n roll influenced these bands
bitzy
Your right Bitzy. People sometimes forget that. All they think of is the media sensationalised punks vs. Teds Kings Road fights.
My ma and uncle were going to punk gigs as well as rockabilly gigs in the late 1970s/early 1980s. It’s an obvious statement but there would be no punk without rockabilly/rock n roll.
It funny that you mention this!
If you listen closely to the album version of Television Screen,you will hear a toy piano playing the Nut Rocker riff
“da da da dada, da da, da da” on the intro