U-Men has been played on NTS in shows including The Athenian Marketplace , featured first on 20 July 2015. Songs played include Bad Little Woman, Dig It A Hole and Dig It A Hole.

The U-Men was an American proto-grunge band, formed in Seattle, Washington in 1981 and active until 1989. They toured extensively across the United States and even had a song by the Butthole Surfers named in their honor. Their musically "dirty" sound was a forerunner for the later grunge bands to come out of Seattle.

Fronted by the enigmatic vocalist John Bigley, the U-Men (whose members also included Tom Price, Charlie "Chaz" Ryan,…