27 December 1988

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1988-12-27


 * Comments
 * Start of show: 'D'you know, I don't think I've ever heard Cliff sounding better than he did tonight on Radio 1 FM.'
 * The usual best of year session repeats and the fourth part of the year's Festive Fifty. As indicated below, the show is nearly complete, but is shared at two different sources: the first with the session repeats, the second with the chart rundown.
 * The first shared file of the programme ends halfway through an Ameyenge track: it is possible that one or two other session songs may have been played, as some five minutes of the show appear to be missing.

Sessions

 * Overlord X, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1988-08-02. No known commercial release.
 * Pixies, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1988-05-03. Available on Pixies At The BBC (4AD).
 * Billy Bragg, #6 (repeat). Recorded 1988-08-30. No known commercial release.
 * Amayenge, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1988-07-05. Available on Strange Fruit LP (SFPS067).
 * King Of The Slums, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1988-04-12. No known commercial release.
 * Dub Sex, #3 (repeat). Recorded 1988-06-05. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting

 * Overlord X: 'The Hardcore' (Peel Session)
 * Pixies: 'Levitate Me' (Peel Session)
 * Billy Bragg: 'The Short Answer' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'I think one of the nicest outings the Peel family had this year was travelling to a tent in Oxford to hear Amayenge.')
 * Amayenge: 'Free Nelson Mandela' (Peel Session)
 * King Of The Slums: 'Big Girl's Blouse' (Peel Session)
 * Dub Sex: 'Caved-in' (Peel Session)
 * (trailer for Radio 1's programme 'The Top Ten Of The Top Tens')
 * Overlord X: 'X Posse' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'One or two people have written to me over the Christmas period asking when there's gonna be a new Radio 1 calendar. I'm sorry to have to tell you that there isn't going to be one for 1989. Not quite sure why this is: I suggested to them a kind of John Peel calendar, pictures of me lying like a beached whale on a number of the world's most glamorous beaches, but there wasn't a lot of interest in it.')
 * Billy Bragg: 'Valentine's Day Is Over' (Peel Session)
 * Pixies: 'Hey' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'A much sought-after session, this one. One or two people have written in again asking whether it's going to be issued by Strange Fruit on an EP, and I would imagine that the problems involved in putting out sessions by American bands would be insurmountable, well not far from it.') It would not be available for another ten years.
 * Amayenge: 'Chibuyubuyu' (Peel Session)
 * King Of The Slums: 'Venerate Me Utterly' (Peel Session)
 * Overlord X: 'The Dedication' (Peel Session) (a large number of namechecks, including Peel and Walters)
 * (JP: 'Not nearly enough mentions of me in that.')
 * Dub Sex: 'I Am Not Afraid' (Peel Session)
 * Billy Bragg: 'She's Got A New Spell' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'I had one of those embarrassing experiences when a friend of mine came into the studio earlier this evening for the first time, and I always say to people, and I've said it on countless occasions, watching somebody doing a radio programme is not terrifically...actually, if you watch Steve Wright, it's spectacular because he does a lot, you know, but watching me is rather like watching somebody typing, and I always know that within a few moments, after about twenty minutes or so, people are going to begin looking around the studio, and sure enough, within about twenty minutes, he was reading Bruno Brookes' Christmas cards stuck up on the windows around here and so forth. He's gone now, I'll be a sadder and a wiser man.')
 * Pixies: 'In Heaven (The Lady In The Radiator Song)' (Peel Session)
 * King Of The Slums: 'Leery Bleeder' (Peel Session)
 * (trailer for Newsbeat Review Of The Year)
 * Ameyenge: 'Munise Munise' (Peel Session) (first file ends here)

File

 * Name
 * a) 27th December 88
 * b) 1988 (Complete) Radio Version Files 31-40
 * Length
 * a) 01:05:13


 * Other


 * Available
 * a) John Peel - Festive Fifty Radio Archive
 * b) John Peel Torrent Compilation 2 of 17