24 December 1979

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1979-12-24


 * Comments
 * The second of five shows featuring the 1979 Festive Fifty.
 * Partially available as half-hour mp3 (see below) and Festive Fifty compilation (see 1979 Festive Fifty).

Sessions

 * Repeats of the year's best sessions, including (but not necessarily limited to):
 * The Cure (originally transmitted 16 May 1979 )
 * The Damned (originally transmitted 29 October 1979 )
 * Secret Affair (originally transmitted 26 November 1979 )
 * Steel Pulse (originally transmitted 13 August 1979 )


 * Ken Garner also lists a new session from Viv Stanshall . None of this is included - or even referred to - in the mp3.
 * In fact, there is no actual confirmation, beyond the filename, that these sessions are from the 24 December show. I guess this could be any of this year's Festive Fifty shows.

Tracklisting
Probably incomplete. Times taken from recording below, which doesn't begin at the start of the show.


 * 00:00 The Cure: "Grinding Halt" (Peel session)
 * 02:57 The Damned: "Smash It Up" [parts 2 & 3?] (Peel session)
 * The Damned's first track of the evening


 * 07:48 Secret Affair: "Get Ready" (Peel session)
 * "first one from Secret Affair" this evening. Temptations cover.


 * 11:12 The Cure: "Desperate Journalist in Ongoing Meaningful Review Situation" (Peel session)
 * "if that sounded like "Grinding Halt", which you heard earlier on, well, it really was, but with different words." In reponse to [|this review].


 * 14:20 The Damned: "Liar" (Peel session)
 * 18:36 Steel Pulse: "Reggae Fever" (Peel session)
 * "The first from Steel Pulse"


 * 23:31 Secret Affair: "New Dance" (Peel session)

1979 Festive Fifty:

These were presumably all played. #34-33 & 31 are featured on the compilation.  The Fall: "Rowche Rumble" (7" single, 1979) Step-Forward Gary Numan + Tubeway Army: "Are 'Friends' Electric?" (Replicas, 1979) Beggars Banquet Siouxsie and the Banshees: "Switch" (The Scream, 1978) Polydor Skids: "Into the Valley" (Scared to Dance, 1979) Virgin Records The Specials: "Too Much Too Young" (Specials, 1979) 2 Tone Siouxsie and the Banshees: "Icon" (Join Hands, 1979) Polydor David Bowie: ""Heroes"" ("Heroes", 1977) RCA The Dead Kennedys: "California über Alles" (7" single, 1979) Optional Music The Who: "My Generation" (My Generation, 1965) Brunswick The Undertones: "Jimmy Jimmy" (The Undertones, 1979) Sire 

File

 * Name
 * BBC Radio 1 - John Peel Show 791224 - 02 - Cassette One Side B.mp3


 * Length
 * 27:56 (not complete show)


 * Other
 * 39,319 kB; 192 kbps


 * Available
 * John Peel Torrent Compilation 8 of 17 (1967-1993)


 * Other Files
 * There are two other mp3s on Torrent Compilation 8. Unfortunately, these contain the same segment of the show.
 * BBC Radio 1 - John Peel Show 791224 - 01 - Cassette One Side A.mp3 is identical, except that it plays the first 00:43 before restarting at 00:00, and ends with 04:08 of silence.
 * RADIO 1 24 12 79  JOHN PEEL.MP3 contains exactly the same amount of the show (i.e. is from the same radio recording), but distorts & flanges in places.