John Peel - Fire Engines

Tape

 * Name
 * John Peel - Fire Engines


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM
 * 1981


 * Another in a small but select series of Peel compilations from Mark.
 * Mark: "Lenny Henry in his Tiswas phase opens the show with a bizarre offering. Was this the start of a period when Peel asked a series of bands to record the Heaven 17 anti-fascist anthem … or is that an urban myth? Peel is name checked in The Skids session track from 1978. Is anyone compiling a list/mix of songs that mention the great man … I am a bit bemused that I have The Lucys doing No Door twice on the same tape – did he play it twice by mistake or did I record the repeat later in the month …"

Tracklisting

 * Lenny Henry: 'The Algernon Wants You to Say OK Song (7 inch)' (Jet)
 * (JP: 'A thing of rare beauty … someone told me it was the Beat providing the backing music.')


 * Girls At Our Best: 'Getting Nowhere Fast – 7” on Record Records (RR1).
 * Fire Engines – Candy Skin [session #1]
 * (JP: 'I had to leave home earlier this evening drive away from the mountain fastness of Peel Acres with the flood waters lapping at the door but this is the price you have to pay if you are in show business… so this is for the pig who is stuck there probably by now the flood waters are up to the second storey.')


 * 7th Extension – Youth Man
 * Comsat Angels - Eye of the Lens 7" 1981, Polydor
 * Fire Engines – (We don’t need this) Fascist Groove Thang [session#1]
 * Wild Boys – Last One of the Boys
 * Bow Wow Wow – "W.O.R.K. (N.O. Nah, No No My Daddy Don't)" (EMI 5153) 7”
 * (JP: There’s more work on this show than there is on Merseyside.')


 * Blue Orchids – Work Rough Trade 7” RT067
 * Penetration – Movement [Session #1 from 1978]
 * Bauhaus – Kick in the Eye [beggars banquet 7”]
 * (JP: 'Destined for number one in the pale and interesting chart, I think.')


 * G Davey Crockett – Look Out Mabel {Charlie Records]
 * Lucys – No Door [Session]
 * Wall Of Voodoo – The Passenger [Wall of Voodoo EP on Restless records]
 * Eno & Byrne – Come With Us from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts LP Sire 6093
 * (JP: 'You know, I’m secretly rather glad that these old music hall songs are coming back again.')


 * Raincoats – Shouting Out Loud [NME/Rough Trade C81]
 * Frames – Play It By Fear [Session]
 * Lines – Nerve Pylon [7” Red Linear Records RL 007]
 * (JP: 'There are few things that irritate me more and I expect you are the same than people who come on the radio and use long words and say things like laburnum and then say whatever that means the assumption being that they don’t want to embarrass their audience by appearing cleverer then them this seems to me to be to patronizing in the extreme I say all this as I have to confess that I am not exactly sure what Zeitgeist means even though I have had it explained to me on a number of occasions – probably something like the isness of being.')


 * Zeitgeist – Shake Rake 7” Enchain Enc1
 * Dome – Ritual View from LP Dome2 [a wire side project by Graham Lewis & Bruce Gilbert
 * Aerial Effects – So Hard [7”Square Records]
 * Skids – TV Stars [session #1 from 1978]
 * (JP: 'I think we’ll rebook those boys.')


 * Lucys – No Door [session]
 * Scars – All About You [7” on Charisma]
 * Out On Blue Six – Mogadon Sunday 7” Hungry Rooms
 * Lucys – Lost Animal [Session]
 * Colors Out Of Time – Mambo Girls Mambo 7” on Monsters In Orbit
 * Lucys - Right man [Session] incomplete

File

 * Name
 * John Peel - Fire Engines
 * Length
 * 01:31:15


 * Other
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 * Many thanks to Mark.


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