09 March 1981

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1981-03-09


 * Comments
 * (Introduction to show, mood of Peel, interesting comments, etc. If possible, please add mentions of gigs attended, football matches, TV appearances, stories of past/current activities, etc, for use elsewhere on John Peel Wiki.)

Sessions
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
 * Artist session number

Tracklisting

 * first four tracks are a continous segment
 * Lenny Henry: 'The Algernon Wants You to Say OK Song (7 inch)' (Jet) 09 March 1981
 * (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 inch)' (Record Records) 09 March 1981
 * Fire Engines: 'Candy Skin' (Peel Session) 09 March 1981
 * (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.')


 * Seventh Extension: 'Youth Man' 09 March 1981
 * tape edit
 * Comsat Angels: 'Eye Of The Lens (7 inch)' (Polydor) 09 March 1981
 * tape edit
 * Fire Engines: '(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang' (Peel Session) 09 March 1981
 * tape edit
 * Wild Boys: 'Last One of the Boys' 09 March 1981
 * (JP: and that's from theg Wild Boys, who come from wherever has the dial code of 0203. And our engineer Phil tells me that 0222 is Cardiff, but that's not terribly helpful.') The link continues with a request from John's gig in Sheffield on Saturday which probably dates it to the same Monday night show as above.

File

 * Name
 * John Peel - Fire Engines
 * Length
 * 01:31:15 (to 23:11)


 * Other
 * Shared via Peel Mailing List.
 * Many thanks to Mark.


 * Available
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