San Giovanni Bassista has been played on NTS shows including Arp, with Hot Socks first played on 31 March 2017.

San Giovanni Bassista was a band that brilliantly expressed the humour, the freshness and New Wave energy of the “alternative Italo-Disco” that came out of Florence in the early 80s.

“Don’t Go” ,the band’s biggest hit - a maxi-single relased by Materiali Sonori in 85 - featured: “Don’t Go” on side A and “Hot Socks” and “Summer Sweat” on side B. The first 2 tracks were produced by Arlo Bigazzi, the third by Alexander Robotnick.

In 2003 Alexander Robotnick retrieved “Don’t Go” ‘s 24 original tracks and…