The Purple Gang has been played on NTS shows including Loose Bones, with Granny Takes A Trip first played on 18 March 2013.

There are at least three artists named The Purple Gang:

English 60s psychedelic pop/rock band;

US 60s garage band;

Australian 80s punk band.

The Purple Gang are a British rock band active intermittently since the 1960s.

Although they were associated with the London psychedelic scene, they originated in Stockport, then in Cheshire, as a jugband. The band adopted the name, The Purple Gang, when they changed their image to the well-dressed, clean-cut "gangster" style in the 1960s. In London, they engaged Joe Boyd…