35 years ago the other day … our good friends Violent Femmes were discovered (sort of) by James Honeyman-Scott, guitarist with UK new wave act The Pretenders. “I would say the thing about the Pretenders that was inspiring at the time was that these great international touring musicians recognized that we were interesting, whereas the people in Milwaukee thought we were losers. We knew that our music was great.” – Brian Ritchie. Read all about it… http://diffuser.fm/violent-femmes-pretenders/