This was apparently the first punk single to reach the Top 20 anywhere in the world, when it reached No.17 in the Irish charts in May 1977.

The Radiators From Space are sometimes cited as Ireland’s first punk band. But they can’t have been because guitarist Philip Chevron, who was already fronting a band in Dublin, formed them after reading about a like-minded band Greta Garbage & The Trashcans.

It doesn’t take a musicologist to guess that they were a punk group, and Chevron (né) Ryan recruited their guitarist and singer, Pete Holidai (sic) and Steve Rapid for a new group, adding two more members in Jimmy Crashe and Mark Megaray.

Borne on an urgent blast of revved-up Chuck Berry riffing, Television Screen came out on the indie Chiswick label and earned the band a support slot in the UK with Thin Lizzy that same year, though Steve Rapid decided not to move here with his bandmates, so Chevron took over as singer.

It was followed by another great single, Enemies, that seems somehow to have stayed with me ever since its release, and a third before the end of ’77 called Sunday World, as well as an album, TV Tube Heart.

Soon after that they shortened their name to The Radiators (and later to The Rads and, finally, The Radiators Plan 9), and recorded a second album of powerpop tunes, Ghostown, with Tony Visconti, whose clean production didn’t bring out the best in them and whose mind may have been more on his next job – Bowie’s album Lodger.