26 December 1989

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1989-12-26


 * Comments
 * The third part of the 1989 Festive Fifty, backed by best of the year session repeats and records.
 * As with the remainder of the week's prgrammes, Peel's usual 1 hour 30 minutes was extended to two hours. The first fifteen minutes of this show are missing from this recording.

Sessions

 * Prong, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1989-01-22. Available on Blast Off: The Peel Sessions ((Strange Fruit).
 * Four Brothers, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1989-03-25. No known commercial release.
 * Ruthless Rap Assassins, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1989-06-04. 'Three The Hard Way' available on Manchester, So Much To Answer For (Strange Fruit).

Tracklisting

 * MC Groove: 'Drop The Pressure (12 inch-The Groove' (Sing A Song)
 * Prong: 'Decay' (Peel Session)
 * Blue Pearl: 'Naked In The Rain (12 inch-promo' (WAU/Mr. Modo)
 * (JP: 'As always, when people come and sit in the studio when I'm doing programmes, it's quite interesting to see how they react. After about ten or fifteen minutes, you can see them sitting there reading, like, three month old copies of City Limits and stuff like this, and newspapers which they would not normally read at all. It's quite amusing too to open the microphone suddenly, not all the way, and see them freeze.')
 * Four Brothers: 'Rudo Chete' (Peel Session)
 * Ruthless Rap Assassins: 'Three The Hard Way' (Peel Session)
 * Nexus 21: 'Detroit B-Boy (LP-The Rhythm Of Life)' (Blue Chip)
 * (JP: 'The children, of course, bored stiff by the programme already and their dad's appalling taste in music, have gone outside and are playing a machine in the corridor called 'Give Us A Break'. I just came up as the answer to one of the questions: I was much impressed by this, although rather less impressed by the fact that I was the wrong answer to the question.')
 * Prong: 'Senseless Abuse' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'The children have just elected a representative, Alexandra, 12, to come in and find out when the programme ends: that's how much they're enjoying it. I was just looking over to see whether the Mayo phone was ringing, and it hasn't rung once since the programme started. Either this means that nobody's listening, or that those few people who are listening think that the programme's pre-recorded anyway. If it was pre-recorded, it would be better than this.')
 * Four Brothers: 'Pasi Pano Pane Zvidzo' (Peel Session)
 * Blade: 'The Comin' Is Near (12 inch EP-Lyrical Maniac)' (Raw Bass)
 * Ruthless Rap Assassins: 'Posse Strong' (Peel Session)
 * Four Brothers: 'Wakazvarwa Seyi' (Peel Session)

John Peel's Festive Fifty 1989: Numbers 30-21

 * 30: Telescopes, 'The Perfect Needle (12 inch)' (What Goes On)

File

 * Name
 * 26th December 89
 * Length
 * 01:45:35


 * Other


 * Available
 * John Peel - Festive Fifty Radio Archive