10 July 1978

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1978-07-10


 * Comments
 * Plays Blast Furnace & The Heatwaves (who have a session the following night) and also comments on a recent review of the Rich Kids single by the band’s lead singer (NME writer Charles Shaar Murray).

Sessions

 * Desperate Bicycles #1 First broadcast of only session. Recorded 1978-07-04. No known commercial release.
 * Penetration #1 First broadcast. Recorded 1978-07-05. Available on Penetration (Griffin, 1995).

Tracklisting

 * (cuts in)


 * Status Quo: Mean Girl (single) Pye
 * (JP: “There were a lot of Quo buffs at a gig that I did on Saturday night in Derby. Unfortunately there were also a great number of John Travolta fans there as well, so it was kind of a mixed gig.”)


 * Desperate Bicycles: Smokescreen (session)
 * Blast Furnace & The Heatwaves: Can’t Stop The Boy (EP) Nighthawk
 * Steel Pulse: Prodigal Son (single) Island
 * Unwanted: Withdrawl/1984 (LP - Oh No It's More From Raw) Raw
 * (JP: “Another track from the album later in the programme.”)


 * Lurkers: It’s Quiet Here (LP – Fulham Fallout) Beggars Banquet
 * (JP: “A record that Kate Bush liked very well on Roundtable last Friday. I wasn’t that keen meself, but I thought if she likes it, it must be good, eh?”)


 * Robert Palmer: Best Of Both Worlds (single) Island
 * Neon: Bottles (maxi single) Sensible
 * Penetration: Stone Heroes (session)
 * Dennis Walks & I-Roy: Combination Drifter (single) Afro
 * (Peel says the programme gets around 30 demos a week and apologises for the huge backlog.)


 * Cars: I’m In Touch With Your World (LP – The Cars) Elektra import
 * Desperate Bicycles: Teacher’s Prayer (session)
 * Real Kids: All Kindsa Girls (single) Sponge
 * Hieronymus Bosch: Rockin’ Rachmaninov (single) Aerco
 * (cuts out)

File

 * Name
 * 1978-07-10 (Desperate Bicycles, Penetration)


 * Length
 * 52.50


 * Other
 * File created from T170 of 400 Box.
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 * Many thanks to Lol and the original taper.


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