1988
- 02/01/88 The Pogues
- 09/01/88 Renegade Soundwave
- 16/01/88 Red Hot Chili Peppers
- 23/01/88 Sweet Tee
- 30/01/88 70s special
- 06/02/88 The Wedding Present
- 13/02/88 Morrissey
- 20/02/88 Sting
- 27/02/88 Bomb the Bass
- 05/03/88 The Madness
- 12/03/88 Iron Maiden
- 19/03/88 T'Pau
- 26/03/88 James Brown
- 09/04/88 The Wonder Stuff
- 16/04/88 Harry Enfield (as Loadsamoney)
- 23/04/88 Terence Trent D'Arby
- 30/04/88 Nasty Rox Inc
- 07/05/88 Derek B
- 14/05/88 Liverpool F.C.
- 21/05/88 The Housemartins
- 28/05/88 Billy Bragg
- 04/06/88 UB40
- 11/06/88 Pop Will Eat Itself
- 18/06/88 Roddy Frame and Joe Strummer for Amnesty International
- 25/06/88 Gary Glitter and The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
- 02/07/88 The Pogues
- 09/07/88 Pink Floyd
- 16/07/88 Acid house
- 23/07/88 Hothouse Flowers
- 30/07/88 The House of Love
- 06/08/88 The Psychedelic Furs
- 13/08/88 Nick Cave
- 20/08/88 The Proclaimers
- 27/08/88 The Primitives
- 03/09/88 Björk of The Sugarcubes
- 10/09/88 That Petrol Emotion
- 17/09/88 Mark E. Smith
- 24/09/88 The Mission
- 01/10/88 Bananarama
- 08/10/88 Public Enemy
- 15/10/88 Pet Shop Boys
- 22/10/88 U2
- 29/10/88 Sinéad O'Connor
- 05/11/88 Todd Terry
- 12/11/88 Zeke Manyika
- 19/11/88 Acid House crackdown
- 26/11/88 Napalm Death
- 03/12/88 Neneh Cherry
- 10/12/88 Various artists ("Work Is A Four Letter Word - the dodgy pasts of your favourite artists")
- 17/12/88 Bros
- 24/12/88 Harry Enfield
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