Nightingales


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Festive Fifty Entries
No entries during Peel's lifetime.


 * Post-Peel
 * 2006 Festive Fifty: Born Again In Birmingham #25
 * 2006 Festive Fifty: Black Country #26
 * 2007 Festive Fifty: What No Blog? #14
 * 2007 Festive Fifty: Eleven Fingers #17
 * 2007 Festive Fifty: Plenty Of Spare #46
 * 2009 Festive Fifty: I Am Grimaldi #6

Sessions
Eight sessions. Official session releases:

- The Nightingales EP (Peel Sessions EP) (Cherry Red Rec.,12 Cherry 44 - 09/1982)

- Flexi with How To Age & Heroin (Vindaloo VILP 2) Sept. 1985

- On Various Artists: Winters of Discontent: The Peel Sessions CD, 1991 (Strange Fruit, SFRCD 204) 


 * 1) 1. Recorded: 1980-10-01. First broadcast: 13 October 1980. Repeated
 * Start From Scratch / Butter Bricks / Torn / 12 Years
 * 1) 2. Recorded: 1981-07-06. Transmitted: 07 July 1981 Repeated: 10 September 1981.
 * Return Journey / (One) Mistake / Bush Beat / Inside Out
 * 1) 3. Recorded: 1982-03-03. Transmitted: 18 March 1982. Repeated: 19 April 1982, 15 December 1982.
 * Give 'Em Time / Which Hi-Fi / My Brilliant Career / The Son Of God's Mate
 * 1) 4. Recorded 1982-07-28. First broadcast: 28 July 1982. Repeated: 16 August 1982, 12 October 1982.
 * Joking Apart / It Lives Again / OK Chorale/The Crunch / Blood For Dirt
 * 1) 5. Recorded: 1983-03-28. Transmitted: 04 April 1983. Repeated:
 * Urban Ospreys / Yeah It's Okay / The Bending End / The Whys Of Acknowledgement / Only My Opinion
 * 1) 6. Recorded: 1983-12-05. Transmitted: 12 December 1983. Repeated: 09 January 1984.
 * Look Satisfied / All Talk / This / Not Man Enough
 * 1) 7. Recorded: 1985-03-03. Transmitted: 11 March 1985. Repeated: 26 March 1985, 22 April 1985, 16 December 1985.
 * How To Age / Heroin / First My Job / Part-Time Moral England
 * 1) 8. Recorded: 1986-03-18. Transmitted: 26 March 1986. Repeated: 14 April 1986, 13 May 1986.
 * Down In The Dumps / Coincidence / At The End Of The Day / Rockin' With Rita

Live

 * 17 December 1984: Recorded at ICA Rock Week, 1984-10-05 (Peel unable to attend as he had been booked for gig in Middlesborough).
 * 1) Which Hi-Fi?
 * 2) Not Man Enough
 * 3) Surplus And Scarcity
 * 4) Crafty Fag

Other Shows Played
(The list below was compiled only from the database of this site and Lorcan's Tracklistings Archive. Please add further details if known.)


 * 1981
 * Peel 1981 (unknown date March 1981): Idiot Strength
 * 22 April 1981: Idiot Strength (7") Rough Trade / Vindaloo
 * 23 March 1981: Idiot Strength
 * 07 April 1981: Seconds (b-side 'Idiot Strength' 7") Vindaloo
 * 30 April 1981: Idiot Strength


 * 1982
 * 22 February 1982: Use Your Loaf (7 inch) Cherry Red
 * 01 June 1982: Paraffin Brain (single) Cherry Red
 * 07 July 1982: (JP: "A note from a Martin Longley to tell me that Several Young Men Ignite Hardboard Stump, will be performing at The Star Club in Birmingham… a legendary venue that is too, I went to see The Nightingales there.")
 * 17 November 1982: Don't Blink (album - Pigs On Purpose) Cherry Red
 * 18 November 1982: Yeah, It's OK (album - Pigs On Purpose) Cherry Red
 * 23 November 1982: Start From Scratch (album - Pigs On Purpose) Cherry Red
 * 30 November 1982: Don't Blink (LP - Pigs On Purpose) Cherry Red
 * 07 December 1982: One Mistake (LP - Pigs On Purpose) Cherry Red
 * 08 December 1982: Blisters (LP - Pigs On Purpose) Cherry Red


 * 08 November 1983: Crafty Fag (7" - Crafty Fag / How To Age) Ink
 * 29 November 1983: Lower Than Ever (album - Hysterics)
 * 30 November 1983: Nothing But Trouble (LP - Hysterics) Ink
 * 06 December 1983: Big Print (LP - Hysterics) Ink
 * Peel 1983 Bits And Pieces: Cakehole (EP - Urban Ospreys/Cakehole) Cherry Red


 * 1984
 * 16 January 1984: Insurance (album - Hysterics) Ink
 * 30 May 1984: The Crunch (EP) Vindaloo
 * Peel Early June 1984: The Crunch
 * 26 September 1984: Which Hi-Fi? (EP – The Nightingales) Cherry Red
 * 17 October 1984: The Crunch (LP – 1983-84 Just The Job) Vindaloo


 * 1985
 * Peel Early 1985: What A Carry On (12") Vindaloo
 * 30 January 1985: It's A Cracker
 * Peel January 1985: snippet of unknown track
 * 13 February 1985: It's A Cracker (7") Vindaloo
 * Peel 005 (BFBS) (1985-02-00): Here We Go Now (7"-B side of This) Vindaloo
 * 03 September 1985: What A Carry On (12” + free flexi disc) Vindaloo
 * Peel 020 (BFBS) (1985-00-00): First My Job (12"-What A Carry On) Vindaloo
 * Peel 025 (BFBS) (1985-12-00): Paraffin Brain (7")' (Cherry Red)


 * 1986
 * Peel 032 (BFBS) (1986-04-10): Down In the Dumps (LP-In The Good Old Country Way) Vindaloo
 * Peel 033 (BFBS) (1986-04-17): Square Circle (LP-In The Good Old Country Way) Vindaloo
 * Peel 034 (BFBS) (1986-04-17): No Can Do (LP-In The Good Old Country Way) (Vindaloo)
 * Peel 035 (BFBS) (1986-05-08): Coincidence (LP-In The Good Old Country Way) Vindaloo


 * 1987
 * Peel 049 (BFBS) (1987-01-02): My Brilliant Career (12"-The Nightingales E.P.) Cherry Red


 * 1990s
 * 08 August 1990: Elvis, The Last Ten Days (7"-Paraffin Brain) Cherry Red
 * 24 June 1996: Rockin' With Rita (26/03/86) (John Peel's Classic Sessions)
 * 16 December 1997: Elvis, The Last Ten Days (7") Cherry Red
 * 12 March 1998: Look Satisfied (LP: Just The Job) Vindaloo


 * Other
 * Peeling Back The Years: Urban Ospreys
 * Personal Column: Black: Don't Blink (LP-Pigs On Purpose) Cherry Red