25 December 1984

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1984-12-25


 * Comments
 * (Introduction to show, mood of Peel, interesting comments, etc)

Sessions

 * Mighty Wah!, #3 (repeat). Recorded 1984-08-22. Originally released on Strange Fruit (SFPS035).
 * Syncbeat, one and only session. Recorded 1984-09-15. No known commercial release.
 * Die Zwei At The Rodeo, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1984-05-23. No known commercial release.
 * Yip Yip Coyote, #3 (repeat). Recorded 1984-07-12. No known commercial release.
 * Bronski Beat, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1984-09-25. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting
John Peel's Festive 50 1984: Numbers 30-21


 * 30: Cult, 'Spiritwalker (LP-Dreamtime)' (Beggars Banquet)
 * 29: Billy Bragg, 'The Saturday Boy (LP-Brewing Up With Billy Bragg)' (Go! Discs)
 * 28: Smiths, 'Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (LP-Hatful Of Hollow)' (Rough Trade)
 * (JP: 'I wanted a video camera, but I didn't get one.')
 * 27: Very Things, 'The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes (LP-The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes)' (Reflex Records)
 * (JP: 'Walters thinks that the Shend on that sounds as if his vocals are influenced by the Goons. For those of you who don't remember the Goons, they were an extremely influential comedy programme in the Fifties, I suppose it must have been, who now sound to me acutely embarrassing.')
 * 26: Unknown Cases, 'Masima Bele (12 inch)' (Rough Trade)
 * 25: Frankie Goes To Hollywood, 'Two Tribes (12 inch-Carnage Mix)' (ZTT)
 * (JP: 'I rather fear that 1985 may turn out to be the year when everybody pretends they never really liked Frankie Goes To Hollywood at all. I'm still with them, I must admit, although I wasn't too keen on the third single.')
 * 24: Smiths: 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (LP-Hatful Of Hollow)' (Rough Trade)
 * 23: Smiths: 'William It Was Really Nothing (LP-Hatful Of Hollow)' (Rough Trade)
 * 22: Cocteau Twins, 'Donimo (LP-Treasure)' (4AD)
 * 21: This Mortal Coil, 'Kangaroo (LP-It'll End In Tears)' (4AD)

File

 * Name
 * ff84 Part 3
 * Length
 * 00:45:55


 * Other
 * Some slight static interference present towards the end of this good quality mono recording.


 * Available
 * John Peel - Festive Fifty Radio Archive