The Consumers has been played on NTS shows including Sara A, with Ballad To The Son Of Sam first played on 30 June 2023.

The Consumers are a punk rock band from Phoenix, Arizona. Back in Phoenix, The Consumers were originally just three guitar players with no rhythm section, including Paul Cutler and Mikey Borens, plus lyricist-lead singer, the late David Wiley, all bonded by love of psychedelic Euro-prog jazz like Henry Cow, Gong, and Robert Wyatt, who'd stopped listening to rock 'n' roll after Bowie's Spiders from Mars came out around 1972. By '77 our guys had re-discovered rock through Britpunk…