Motors

The Motors were a British pub rock band, formed in London in 1977 by former Ducks Deluxe members Nick Garvey and Andy McMaster together with guitarist Rob Hendry (who was replaced in May 1977 by Bram Tchaikovsky) and drummer Ricky Slaughter. Their biggest success was with the McMaster penned song "Airport", a number 4 UK hit single in 1978. Garvey and McMaster dissolved the band in 1982. (more on wikipedia)

Links To Peel
The Motors' debut live performance was at the Marquee Club in March 1977,and they recorded three songs for John Peel's weekly BBC Radio One show the same month (22 March 1977). By May they had been signed to Virgin Records, and recorded material for another John Peel session on 12 September of that year.==Festive Fifty Entries==
 * 1977 Festive Fifty: Bringing In The Morning Light #56
 * 1977 Festive Fifty: Emergency #18
 * 1977 Festive Fifty: You Beat The Hell Out Of Me #03
 * 1977 Festive Fifty: Dancing The Night Away #01

Sessions
1. Recorded: 1977-03-22. Broadcast: 22 April 1977. Repeated: 11 May 1977 2. Recorded: 1977-09-12. Broadcast: 21 September 1977. Repeated: 20 October 1977, 28 December 1977*Phoney Heaven / Freeze / You Beat The Hell Out Of Me / Dancing The Night Away
 * Emergency / Bringing In The Morning Light / Dancing The Night Away

Other Shows Played
(The following list was compiled only from the database of this site and Lorcan's Tracklistings Archive and is certainly incomplete. Please add further details if known.)

1977 1978
 * 30 August 1977: Dancing The Night Away (LP - 1) Virgin
 * 30 August 1977: Freeze (LP - 1) Virgin
 * 30 August 1977: Phoney Heaven (LP - 1) Virgin (JP: 'And that little set also for Dave Marshall too, sorry I left your name out at the beginning, David....from their forthcoming LP, not sure of the date of it because this is a very early copy of the record, in fact it may even be slightly remixed before it gets into your homes, but get into your homes it certainly should, because I think it's an excellent record from an excellent band, and I was rather surprised by the only polite reception they got at the Reading Festival, but I enjoyed the Reading Festival anyway, although I don't think there were any amazing musical highlights. The Festival always reaffirms my faith in human nature in a way, because there were so many agreeable people there, like the lads sleeping in the van next to ours, the members of Motors in fact, and David Goughan and a whole host of other people. The list is considerable really, if you can be bothered to make one.')
 * 21 December 1977: Bring In The Morning Light
 * 21 December 1977: Emergency
 * 22 December 1977: Bringing In The Morning Light FF #56
 * 26 December 1977: Emergency FF #18
 * 27 December 1977: You Beat The Hell Out Of Me FF #03
 * 27 December 1977: Dancing The Night Away FF #01
 * tbc