500 Box

Background

 * This is a collection of somewhere between 500-530 mostly complete John Peel Shows ranging from 1988-2004. In August 2008, inspired by the interest shown in the 400 Box, Peel Mailing List member Colin Bray requested help with digitising the tapes, all of which came from his own personal collection and had been partially tracklisted by him (indeed, all tapes seen so far contain handwritten tracklistings on the cover). As a result of this initial plea, he came to an arrangement with Newsgroup member So It Goes to begin the loaning and transfer of the material. Colin despatched a list of the tapes in table form to Steve (So It Goes), Steve (saipanda), Richard and Rocker.


 * Two factors immediately appeared to compromise the work to be done on this. Firstly, a large proportion of Colin's dates appeared to be inaccurate, listing days when there were no shows broadcast. Secondly, some of the shows had already been circulated via the group and the 17-DVD Torrent compilation. Nevertheless, the importance of having a large, previously unavailable slice of Peel's autumn and winter years was too good an opportunity to pass up. Colin suggested 'cherry-picking' the collection as a way of getting started, and Steve (SIG) chose a group of tapes mainly from 1995, an area under-represented by already available material.


 * Consequently, the first batch of 17 tapes arrived at Steve's home in South Korea on 2008-09-18, [[Image:500_Box-_the_first_17.jpg|thumb|250px|The first 17 tapes arrive at SIG's house]]and the initial batch is now complete: the tapes were returned to Colin on 2009-01-25. The second arrived on 2008-10-30 and was completed on 2009-02-14. Batch three arrived on 2009-02-10. All shows are ripped to high quality mp3 transfer for sharing. They are very good quality FM mono and stereo recordings, with very few instances of tape dropout or distortion.

Tape And Date Pages

 * Tape ID numbers will be assigned in the order ripped with CB numbers, starting with the first available show from 1988-09-26 (CB001). Tracklistings will be readily available from the date pages as they are ripped: this has been facilitated by Colin's methodical cataloguing.

Tapes

 * Below are the tapes received. This section is intended to give an overview of tape status, plus links for information on the tapes themselves and the dates they cover.

CB001: 26 September 1988 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

CB002 and CB003: 07 April 1995 SIG SHARED

CB004 and CB005: 14 April 1995 SIG Already shared at. To avoid unnecessary duplication, these will not be shared.

CB006 and CB007: 21 July 1995 SIG SHARED

CB008 and CB009: 08 September 1995 SIG SHARED

CB010 and CB011: 10 November 1995 SIG SHARED

CB012: 28 May 1997 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

CB013: 20 January 1999 SIG SHARED

CB014, CB015, CB016 and CB017: 26 December 2002 SIG SHARED

CB018: 07 February 1990 SIG SHARED

CB019: 24 May 1990 SIG SHARED

CB020: 28 October 1990 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

CB021: 18 November 1990 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

CB022 and CB023: 01 March 1992 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

CB024: 05 December 1992 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

CB025 and CB026: 17 March 1995 SIG SHARED

CB027 and CB028: 24 March 1995 SIG SHARED

CB029 and CB030: 31 March 1995 SIG SHARED

CB031 and CB032: 28 April 1995 SIG SHARED

CB033 and CB034: 19 May 1995 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

CB035 and CB036: 24 December 2003 SIG SHARED

CB037 and CB038: 25 December 2003 SIG SHARED

CB039 and CB040: 09 May 1992 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

CB041 and CB042: 05 June 1992 SIG SHARED

CB043 and CB044: 06 June 1992 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

CB045 and CB046: 20 June 1992 SIG SHARED

CB047 and CB051: 03 July 1992 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

CB048 and CB049: 17 July 1992 SIG SHARED

CB050: 24 October 1992 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

CB052 and CB053: 31 July 1992 SIG SHARED

CB054: 04 September 1992 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

CB055: 05 September 1992 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

CB056: 08 September 1991 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

CB057: 25 September 1992 (incomplete show) SIG SHARED

Shows Shared In Date Order
1988

26 September 1988

1990

07 February 1990 / 24 May 1990 / 28 October 1990 / 18 November 1990

1991

08 September 1991

1992

01 March 1992 / 09 May 1992 / 05 June 1992 / 06 June 1992 / 20 June 1992 / 03 July 1992 / 17 July 1992 / 31 July 1992 / 04 September 1992 / 05 September 1992 / 24 October 1992 / 05 December 1992

1995

17 March 1995 / 24 March 1995 / 31 March 1995 / 07 April 1995 / 28 April 1995 / 19 May 1995 / 21 July 1995 / 08 September 1995 / 10 November 1995

1997

28 May 1997

1999

20 January 1999

2002

26 December 2002

2003

24 December 2003 / 25 December 2003