23 December 1986

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1986-12-23


 * Comments
 * The second part of the 1986 Festive Fifty, with session repeats: JP mentions that his fellow DJs have described one of the acts as '1000 Villains.'
 * John Walters tells him that the Bhundu Boys are playing the next night, and JP wishes he could be there.
 * John mentions that somebody called Helen in Cwmbran has sent in possibly the latest ever Festive Fifty entry, posted on 18 December: he speculates that someone may send a later one in January, just to get mentioned on the radio.

Sessions

 * One Thousand Violins, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1986-11-04. No known commercial release.
 * Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1986-08-03. Available on Double Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit).
 * Yeah Yeah Noh, #3 (repeat). Recorded 1986-01-19. Available on The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit) and Fun On The Lawn (Vuggum).
 * Slab!, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1986-08-12. No known commercial release.
 * Frank Chickens, #5 (repeat). Recorded 1986-08-05. No known commercial release.
 * Head Of David, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1986-09-23. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting

 * Frank Chickens: 'We Say You Say' (Peel Session)
 * Yeah Yeah Noh: 'Stealing In The Name of The Lord' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'Tonight, I managed to listen to most of Janice's programme, which obviously, because I'm working myself, I don't always get the chance to do, and I was most pleased to hear that I'd placed second in the Record Mirror Poll, I hadn't noticed this, in the 'Least Objectionable DJ' category: Janice came top of that. And I've have voted for her myself, I must say, in that particular capacity. I was also listening to Billy Bragg talking to her towards the end of the programe, and he seemed rather surprised that somebody in a Russian factory had given him a table, and given him some kind of message to pass on to Midge Ure, becuase this is the assumption people make in this country, you don't have to go to Russia to do that, on account of people giving me things, saying, "Can you give this to Lou Reed", or Stevie Wonder, or something like that, as though we all lived in the same block of flats. "Stevie's turn to get breakfast".')
 * One Thousand Violins: 'I Was Depending on You To Be My Jesus' (Peel Session)
 * Slab!: 'Mars On Ice' (Peel Session)
 * Head Of David: 'Metal Texas Psych-Out' (Peel Session)
 * Frank Chickens: 'Chicken Ondo' (Peel Session)
 * Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle: 'Am Tafelberg Von Kapstadt' (Peel Session)
 * (Dave Lee Travis 'don't drink and drive' information message)
 * Yeah Yeah Noh: 'It's Easier To Suck Than Sing' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'I do wish they'd stuck it out for another year or so, but then, you can't always have it your own way now, can you?')
 * Slab!: 'Painting The Forth Bridge' (Peel Session)
 * One Thousand Violins: 'Almost Dead And Nigh On Forty Years To Go' (Peel Session)
 * Head Of David: 'Jack Nicholson' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'I once started to watch 'The Shining' on video and gave up about a third of the way through. I was so frightened, I thought, I daren't watch the rest of this.')
 * Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle: 'Dr Arnold Fanck' (Peel Session)
 * Frank Chickens: 'Japanese Girls' (Peel Session)
 * Yeah Yeah Noh: 'The Superimposed Man' (Peel Session)

File

 * Name
 * 23 December 86 parts 1 & 2
 * Length
 * Part 1 - 01:05:31


 * Other


 * Available
 * Part 1, Part 2