24 December 1980

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1980-12-24


 * Comments
 * Third of five shows featuring the 1980 Festive Fifty.
 * Only the Festive Fifty rundown is currently available.

Sessions

 * Dexy's Midnight Runners, the Undertones and Splodgenessabounds

Tracklisting
22:30 1980 Festive Fifty:  22:33 Adam and the Ants: "Kings of the Wild Frontier" (Kings of the Wild Frontier, 1980) Epic 26:40 The Damned: "Love Song" (Machine Gun Etiquette, 1979) Chiswick Records 28:58 The Only Ones: "Another Girl, Another Planet" (The Only Ones, 1978) Columbia 32:28 Stiff Little Fingers: "Wasted Life" [single version] ("Suspect Device" 7" single, 1978) Rough Trade / Rigid Digits ??? 35:59 The Fall: "How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'" (7" single, 1980) Rough Trade
 * "Now this, after a lot of competition and a lot of soul seaching and agony, personal agony, in the middle of the night sitting up in bed staring at the ceiling, I decided that this was probably my favourite single of the year, so I'm very pleased to see it at #26 in the Festive Fifty. [...] I'm gonna try and play that in the course of DLT's Yuletide DJ dinner tomorrow evening, tomorrow afternoon rather, on Radio One, starting at 12:35. Will they play the whole record, I wonder? We will see."

40:30 Sex Pistols: "God Save the Queen" (Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, 1977) Virgin Records 43:44 Stiff Little Fingers: "Suspect Device" [single version] (7" single, 1978) Rough Trade / Rigid Digits ??? 46:30 Sex Pistols: "Pretty Vacant" (Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, 1977) Virgin Records 49:52 Joy Division: "She's Lost Control" [12" version] (12" single, 1980) Factory 54:18 The Fall: "Totally Wired" (7" single, 1980) Rough Trade 


 * 57:42 [closing music] Grinderswitch: "Pickin' the Blues" (Macon Tracks) Capricorn Records