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

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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[@benday1218]

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!

[@grahamcole1539]

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!

[@jlc7841]

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

[@alankilroy04]

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

[@KatiePuckrikSmells]

Music is my special sauce.

[@jameswarner5809]

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]

One of my finest moments.

[@jameswarner5809]

@@KatiePuckrikSmells ❤🤩

[@jameswarner5809]

@@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.

[@danieladams9950]

❤

[@robwillcox2307]

Beautiful Katie. Thanks.

[@KatiePuckrikSmells]

Thank YOU

[@SubTroppo]

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

[@MrBrindleStyle]

Viva BrisVegas!

[@MrBrindleStyle]

Has 🌟 The dodgey Star Entertainment Group opened yet?

[@peteandrews3172]

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

[@KatiePuckrikSmells]

I love this!!!

[@15loucanova]

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

[@KatiePuckrikSmells]

Thank ye!

[@cyclesgoff9768]

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

[@KatiePuckrikSmells]

If ya don't use it ya lose it!

[@barryomahony9031]

A real joy

[@KatiePuckrikSmells]

Ta!

[@danieladams9950]

Katie so mellifluously erudite. Loved this.

[@KatiePuckrikSmells]

Thanking you mellifluously.

[@danieladams9950]

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

[@garyrigby21]

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

[@jlc7841]

Great band👍

[@KatiePuckrikSmells]

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

[@garyrigby21]

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

[@garyrigby21]

@@KatiePuckrikSmells the singer from The Fuzztones

[@Fvejo]

13:38 Not sure that’s the one she’s talking about but anyway, what a side effect find _Suburban Lawns’ Janitor_ kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2Opn4ChaZmmd8kfeature=shared

[@KatiePuckrikSmells]

WOW Su Tissue kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6rMfXeClKp-Y8k