25 August 1990 (BFBS)

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel's Music On BFBS


 * Station
 * BFBS (Germany)


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1990-08-25


 * Comments
 * From Peel 155 (BFBS) & Peel 156 (BFBS).

Sessions

 * None

Tracklisting
File a
 * (Ex) Cat Heads: 'Nothing (LP-Our Frisco)' (Twitch City)
 * (JP: 'And I think that's enough loveliness for the time being.') There then follows one second of what sounds like a grindcore track, not recorded


 * Surreal Madrid: 'In Dreams You Stay Mine (12"-Now It's You...)' (Rottweiler)
 * Bocca Juniors: 'Raise (12")' (Boy's Own Recordings)
 * Heart Throbs: 'Calavera (LP-Cleopatra Grip)' (One Little Indian)
 * John reads out a letter from the following band

File b
 * Frog Sandwich: 'Senility And Me (12"-Quadratic Kiss)' (not on label)
 * Zitany Neil: 'Maladie Des Quatre Coins (LP-L'Embarras Du Choix)' (Editions Kaluila)
 * Sonny Terry: 'Going Down Slow' (Oriole)
 * Snuff: 'Do Nothing (Compilation LP-Now Thats Disgusting Music)' (Too Pure) also played on 20 August 1990
 * Toadstool: 'The Last Utopian (LP-The Sun Highway)' (Twin/Tone)
 * Steel Pole Bath Tub: 'Lime-Away (12"-Lurch)' (Tupelo Recording Company) (JP: '...which is as stupid a name as any band ever had, in my view...Why couldn't they have called themselves something like the Beatles, or the Rolling Stones, or the Kinks? Steel Pole Bath Tub really is an awful name.)
 * Pre-recorded: John looks forward to his holiday in France, whilst acknowledging that by the time his listeners hear next week's show, he will already have returned


 * Fugazi: 'Turnover (LP-Repeater)' (Dischord)
 * Howlin' Wolf: 'Killing Floor (CD-Moanin' And Howlin')' (Chess)
 * Moutouari Michel: 'Mon Ami Et Ma Femme (LP-Mon Ami Et Ma Femme)' (Production C. Guillaume)
 * Prudes: 'Glad (12")' (Imaginary)
 * Teenage Fanclub: 'Eternal Light (LP-A Catholic Education)' (Paperhouse)
 * Thee Headcoats: 'A Town Named Squaresville (LP-The Kids Are All Square - This Is Hip!)' (Hangman)

File

 * Name
 * a) Peel 155
 * b) Peel 156


 * Length
 * a) 00:47:03
 * b) 00:45:53


 * Other
 * Many thanks to Dirk.


 * Available
 * Pending


 * Footnotes