This is Spectator Radio and you're listening to Life and Arts with Dominic Green for Spectator USA.

Hello, I'm Dominic Green. I'm Life and Arts editor of Spectator USA, and I'd like to welcome you to the Green Room, our weekly Life and Arts podcast.

This week, I'm casting the pod with Pete Shelley,

lead singer and principal songwriter for Buzzcocks. Buzzcocks formed in Manchester, England in

1976, they broke up in 1980, reformed in 1988, and are still going strong. Their first two albums have just been reissued by Domino Records.

Pete Shelley, welcome to Spectator USA.

Thank you.

So the occasion is the reissue of the first two Buzzcox albums,

and now the music in Different Kitchen, and Love Bites.

When you heard them, how did they

sound to you? Well, it's usually a long while in between me actually listening to me,

back catalog, so to speak. And normally when I listen, it's just almost his background.

But I had listened to them before because I just had a book of lyrics published,

so I had to go and check everything.

I'd been listened to him about six months ago,

as I was compiling the lyrics for my lyric book.

I wasn't really paying attention to it.

But when they first started sending over

the 24-bit masters from the costume room, it took a while to get used to how it sounds,

because I suppose everything's heard differently now. Either hear it on earbuds or headphones, and it's very rarely that you actually sit down and listen to

something and it's full splendor. When I hear that music I still feel, I mean to quote one of your

lyrics almost like I'm 16 again, but is it the same for you having made these recordings, hearing them again, as you're

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