Katie Puckrik - being Iggy Pop, dancing for the Pet Shop Boys and a ‘set-up’ with David Cassidy

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  • Katie Puckrik moved from the East Coast to the UK in 1984, becoming a dancer on a Pet Shop Boys tour and presenter of Channel 4’s The Word with Mark Lamarr and Terry Christian in 1991. She’s now a broadcaster and singer, playing the part of Iggy Pop in the band Lust For Life she formed with Clem Burke and Glen Matlock. She talks here about the first records and bands she loved …
    … the song she wrote on discovering female Beatle fans thought Jane Asher was “the devil”.
    ... interviewing Demi Moore and Barry White, one charming, the other prickly.
    … playing a Rod Stewart single to a fourth-form teacher who wore patent leather ankle boots.
    … why TV show The Word was “a petri dish for every trend we now understand in the world of social media”.
    … the full, up-close impact of David Cassidy’s “perky little hindquarters in a denim dungareed outfit”.
    … playing Iggy pop in the Lust For Life band: “the filth and the fury of a middle-aged woman tackling the testosterone-fuelled bratty rage of a 29 year-old man”.
    … singles bought at the Penguin Feather record store in Virginia.
    … XTC, the Au Pairs, Buzzcocks, the Damned and other bands she loved as an NME-reading 100 per cent Anglophile.
    … “17 Broadway shows rolled into one”: life and things worn as a dancer on the Pet Shop Boys Performance tour.
    … seeing the Police play the Atlantic Bar in DC in ‘77 to an audience of 25.
    … and Kingdom Come, her new band playing PJ Harvey, Magazine, Gang of Four, Hole and Television.

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  • @grahamcole1539
    @grahamcole1539 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Wonderful to catch up with Katie, i had quite a crush on her when she appeared on UK TV on programmes such as The Word. She is still delightful, bright, smart and attractive...nearly 62, just a few years less than me. Thanks for this guys!

  • @benday1218
    @benday1218 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My Katie memory is her bursting on to my screen on Friday nights on 'The Word'. A programme that felt you were hip with the cool kids even if you were watching on the sofa at home with your mum!

  • @jlc7841
    @jlc7841 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Still one of the sexiest voices I’ve ever heard. Katie that is. 😊

  • @alankilroy04
    @alankilroy04 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Love this. KP's love of music shines through ❤

  • @jameswarner5809
    @jameswarner5809 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    I fell in love with Katie when she was doing an outside broadcast for The Word at some unsuspecting member of the public's home. She was running along their front path while talking to camera, tripped over a cable, went arse-over-tit, did a perfect roll, bounced back up again and without a pause said "I do my own stunts too". What a pro!

    • @KatiePuckrikSmells
      @KatiePuckrikSmells 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      One of my finest moments.

    • @jameswarner5809
      @jameswarner5809 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@KatiePuckrikSmells ❤🤩

    • @jameswarner5809
      @jameswarner5809 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@KatiePuckrikSmells ❤On the subject of your yacht rock compilation, did you know Joni Mitchell sailed into the yacht rock harbour on her Dog Eat Dog album? Check out Shiny Toys and her duet with Michael MacDonald, Good Friends.

  • @robwillcox2307
    @robwillcox2307 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Beautiful Katie. Thanks.

  • @15loucanova
    @15loucanova 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Katie is still looking lovely and she is as engaging as she always was.

  • @cyclesgoff9768
    @cyclesgoff9768 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    KT is remarkably well preserved. That’s dancing for you.

  • @danieladams9950
    @danieladams9950 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

  • @SubTroppo
    @SubTroppo 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    I hope that Katie and the band are coming to Brisbane, Australia - specifically the Tivoli [a small venue].

    • @MrBrindleStyle
      @MrBrindleStyle 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Viva BrisVegas!

    • @MrBrindleStyle
      @MrBrindleStyle 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Has 🌟 The dodgey Star Entertainment Group opened yet?

  • @barryomahony9031
    @barryomahony9031 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    A real joy

  • @peteandrews3172
    @peteandrews3172 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    bloody hell ...within the first 3 minutes she dragged me back about 56/57 years. The Stax compilation This Is Soul was the first record I ever bought and played it to death on my older sister's new Dansette record player

  • @danieladams9950
    @danieladams9950 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Katie so mellifluously erudite. Loved this.

    • @KatiePuckrikSmells
      @KatiePuckrikSmells 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Thanking you mellifluously.

    • @danieladams9950
      @danieladams9950 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@KatiePuckrikSmells Is Kingdom Come limited to '77 - '80 or is there wriggle room? Fascinated.

  • @garyrigby21
    @garyrigby21 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Suburban Lawns - Janitor? is that the record you bought Katie?

    • @jlc7841
      @jlc7841 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Great band👍

    • @KatiePuckrikSmells
      @KatiePuckrikSmells 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Not that one, it was Punk Rock Janitor by Tina Peel - it's a novelty namecheck cash-in.

    • @garyrigby21
      @garyrigby21 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@KatiePuckrikSmells cool I know it! I have Fifi goes pop

    • @garyrigby21
      @garyrigby21 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@KatiePuckrikSmells the singer from The Fuzztones

  • @Fvejo
    @Fvejo 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    13:38 Not sure that’s the one she’s talking about but anyway, what a side effect find _Suburban Lawns’ Janitor_ th-cam.com/video/u2FnMk44sAg/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared

    • @KatiePuckrikSmells
      @KatiePuckrikSmells 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      WOW Su Tissue th-cam.com/video/IyiLDL_EK-g/w-d-xo.html