07 October 1999

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1999-10-07


 * Comments
 * A part of the show in which Peel broadcast live performances from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, pre-recorded on 01 October, featuring Lonnie Donegan and Half Man Half Biscuit. Only the latter performance was recorded.
 * The uploader, to whom many thanks, is user Dr. Mango, who commented: 'Here's a 22 minute segment of the show from Thursday 7th October 1999, which featured live recordings by Lonnie Donegan and Half Man Half Biscuit, recorded the previous Friday (1st October) at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the Southbank. I can't remember the reason for the event, but I'm sure somebody can enlighten me. This is a recording of Half Man Half Biscuit's 7 songs, with Peel bookends. There's also the start of the next track in the programme after the live music, but this fades off. Note that the fade is on my original tape! I had no memory of recording this, so was pleasantly surprised to find it on an unmarked tape in my collection a little while ago. I do remember hearing Lonnie Donegan's set though, and being rather impressed. Naturally, I'm disappointed that I didn't record all / more of this show. What's galling now is to point out that I started recording at the beginning of the tape and promptly stopped after HMHB, when I could at least have left it running until side A ran out... So it goes.'
 * Peel hopefully adds that there are other songs waiting to be broadcast by HMHB, which he will do at a later date.

Sessions

 * None

Tracklisting

 * Half Man Half Biscuit: 'Uffington Wassail'
 * (Nigel Blackwell: 'Here's a song that was rejected by Marilyn Manson's people.')
 * Half Man Half Biscuit: 'Improv Workshop Mimeshow Gobshite'
 * (NB: 'This is a song about the laughable respect given to feedback.')
 * Half Man Half Biscuit: 'Look Dad No Tunes'
 * Half Man Half Biscuit: 'You're Hard'
 * (NB: 'We sold the keyboards, we can't do it. Wish I had one of their guitars.')
 * Half Man Half Biscuit: 'Paintball's Coming Home'
 * Half Man Half Biscuit: 'See That My Bike's Kept Clean'
 * (JP: 'Well, I have to say, if I did the lottery, which I don't do, but if I won it, I should set aside a great sum of money to ensure that Half Man Half Biscuit never had to worry about money again, and could just go on making records: really for the rest of my life, and hopefully for the rest of theirs as well.')
 * Doctor Scissors: (unknown)

File

 * Name
 * John Peel 1999-10-07.mp3 (31.1 MB) 192 kbps
 * Length
 * 022:39


 * Other
 * Approximately 1 hour 38 minutes yet to appear of the remaining two hours.


 * Available
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