Elastica


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Festive Fifty Entries

 * 1993 Festive Fifty: Stutter #38
 * 1994 Festive Fifty: Connection #4
 * 1994 Festive Fifty: Waking Up #7
 * 1994 Festive Fifty: Line Up #42
 * 1995 Festive Fifty: All-Nighter #20
 * 1999 Festive Fifty (with Mark E. Smith): How He Wrote Elastica Man #6

Peelenium

 * Peelenium 1993: Stutter (7 inch) Deceptive

Sessions

 * Four sessions. A selection of tracks was released on The Radio One Sessions (Strange Fruit, CD, 2001).

1. Recorded: 1993-08-12. First broadcast: 18 September 1993. Repeated 11 December 1993. 2. Recorded: 1994-06-14. First broadcast: 09 July 1994. Repeated 04 March 1995. 3. Recorded: 1994-12-06. First broadcast: 17 December 1994. Repeated 15 December 1995. 4. Recorded 1999-09-22. First broadcast 09 November 1999. Repeated 02 March 2000.
 * Annie / Spastica / Rock And Roll / Line-up / Vaseline
 * Never Here / Four Wheeling / Hold Me Now / Ba Ba Ba
 * All For Gloria / I Wanna Be A King Of Orient Aah / Father Christmas / Blue
 * Mad Dog / Kb / Da Da Da / Generator / Your Arse My Place

Other Shows Played

 * 1993
 * 07 January 1993: Stutter (unknown) Deceptive
 * 15 January1993: Line-Up (unknown) Deceptive
 * 30 October 1993: Stutter (7 inch) Deceptive
 * 25 December 1993: Stutter (7 inch) Deceptive FF#38


 * 1994
 * 07 January 1994: (JP: ‘And here’s Melody Maker‘s brightest hope, in their current poll, with their new single.’) Line Up (12 inch) Deceptive
 * 15 January 1994 (BFBS): Line Up (7") Deceptive
 * 15 January 1994: Line Up (12 inch) Deceptive
 * 22 January 1994: Vaseline (CD Single - Line Up) Deceptive
 * 28 January 1994: Rockunroll (CD single) Deceptive
 * 05 February 1994 (BFBS): Line Up (7") Deceptive
 * February 1994 (1) (BBC World Service): Annie (CD single - Line Up)
 * 25 February 1994: Vaseline (CD Single - Line Up) Deceptive
 * 26 August 1994: Waking Up [BBC Radio 1 FM Session] (Various Artists Cassette - Reading Present) Melody Maker
 * 27 August 1994: (interview with Justine Frischmann & Annie Holland of Elastica) Waking Up [BBC Radio 1 FM Evening Session] (Cassette - Reading Present) Melody Maker
 * 02 September 1994: Waking Up
 * 05 September 1994 (Ö3): Waking Up (CDS) Deceptive (JP relates his experiences of the Reading Festival, how good Elastica were there)
 * 09 September 1994: See That Animal (single – Connection) Deceptive
 * 09 September 1994: Blue (single – Connection) Deceptive
 * 10 September 1994 (BFBS): (John is just back from the Reading Festival and was surprised that he found the musical highlight to be....) Waking Up [BBC Radio 1 FM Evening Session] (Cassette - Reading Present) Melody Maker
 * 10 September 1994: Connection (single) Deceptive
 * 17 September 1994: Connection (single) Deceptive
 * 17 September 1994 (BFBS): Connection (7") Deception
 * 30 September 1994: Waking Up (Cassette - Reading Present) Melody Maker
 * 07 October 1994: Rockunroll (12” - Stutter) The David Geffen Company
 * 08 October 1994 (BFBS): Waking Up (v/a cassette - Reading Present) Melody Maker (JP: "Still just about the most requested item at Peel Acres, anyway hardly a day passes when a child doesn't appear in my doorway and say 'Daddy, can I please have the Melody Maker Reading Present promo only not for sale with rare and exclusive tracks CD with the Elastica track on it?', and I say 'Yes child, take it". I've got it for the moment, which is why I played it to you again".)
 * 23 December 1994: Line Up (CDS) Deceptive FF#42 (JP: 'Festive Fifty entry makes real world chart shock! That got to number 20 in February.')
 * 23 December 1994: Waking Up (Compilation Cassette-Reading Present) Melody Maker FF#7
 * 23 December 1994: Connection (CDS) Deceptive FF#4


 * 1995
 * 13 January 1995: (JP starts to play the wrong Elastica track, and vows to play the right one in a minute)
 * 13 January 1995: Car Wash (EP-Waking Up) Deceptive (JP: 'One of the many things I like about Elastica is that they don't overstay their welcome.')
 * 13 January 1995: Brighton Rock (EP-Waking Up) Deceptive
 * 27 January 1995: Waking Up (single) Deceptive
 * 28 January 1995: unknown (EP – Waking Up) Deceptive
 * 17 February 1995: (JP plays three tracks each from new LPs by the Fall and Elastica, the latter of which he considers to be the best debut release in many years.) Smile (CD-Elastica) Deceptive (JP: 'I almost find myself wishing I didn't like the LP, because Elastica have been getting so much press, and all of it so enthusiastic, that, you know, kind of your spirit rebels against it.')
 * 17 February 1995: Indian Song (CD-Elastica) Deceptive
 * 17 February 1995: All Nighter (CD-Elastica) Deceptive
 * 18 February 1995: Annie (CD-Elastica) Deceptive
 * 24 February 1995: All Nighter (CD-Elastica) Deceptive (John compares the Elastica track favourably to 'Teenage Kicks', and threatens to play it twice in the same night: it would appear from the track listing that he did.)
 * 24 February 1995: Blue (CD-Elastica) Deceptive
 * 24 February 1995: All Nighter (CD-Elastica) Deceptive
 * 25 February 1995: All Nighter (CD-Elastica) Deceptive
 * 03 March 1995: All Nighter (CD-Elastica) Deceptive
 * 03 March 1995: Annie (CD-Elastica) Deceptive
 * 18 March 1995: All Nighter (CD-Elastica) Deceptive
 * 30 December 1995: All-Nighter (CD-Elastica) Deceptive FF#20
 * 30 December 1995: (JP: 'This year. we took our Flossie to the Glastonbury Festival for the first time, and what was the highlight of the Glastonbury Festival for you, Floss?' Flossie: 'Watching Elastica and Pulp.' JP: 'Exactly.')


 * 1996
 * 09 February 1996: (After playing the opening to Elastica’s ‘Car Song‘ by mistake. JP: 'Actually, to be frank with you that’s not the track I’d intended to play.’) Bar, Bar, Bar (CD –Live In Japan) Deceptive
 * 17 February 1996 (BFBS): Bar Bar Bar (demo) (2xCD-Elastica (tour edition))' (Geffen)


 * 1997
 * 30 April 1997: In The City (Various Artists CD - Music From The Gregg Araki Movie: Nowhere) Mercury
 * 01 October 1997: Annie (Peel 30 years at BBC special)
 * 10 December 1997: Bar Bar Bar Bar (CD: Deceptive Fifty) Deceptive


 * 1999
 * 08 June 1999: Stutter (LP - Incredible Sound Of Jo Whiley) Incredible
 * 08 July 1999 (with Mark E. Smith): How He Wrote Elastica Man (6 Track EP) Deceptive Bluff
 * 13 July 1999: Generator (12"-6 Track EP) Deceptive
 * 14 July 1999 (with Mark E. Smith): How He Wrote Elastica Man (6 Track EP) Deceptive Bluff
 * 21 July 1999 (with Mark E. Smith): How He Wrote Elastica Man (6 Track EP) Deceptive Bluff
 * 28 July 1999 (with Mark E. Smith): How He Wrote Elastica Man (6 Track EP) Deceptive Bluff
 * 29 July 1999: KB (CDS) Deceptive
 * 03 August 1999: KB (6 Track EP) Deceptive Bluff
 * 04 August 1999: Generator (12 inch - 6-track EP) Deceptive
 * 19 August 1999 (Radio Eins): Generator (12"-6 Track EP) Deceptive
 * 26 August 1999: (with Mark E. Smith): (JP: "This is Elastica...with him.") How He Wrote Elastica Man (6 Track EP) Deceptive Bluff
 * 08 December 1999: All For Gloria (Peel Session)
 * 27 December 1999 (BFBS) (with Mark E. Smith): How He Wrote Elastica Man (6 Track EP) Deceptive Bluff
 * 29 December 1999 (with Mark E. Smith): How He Wrote Elastica Man (6 Track EP) Deceptive Bluff FF#6


 * 2000
 * 05 January 2000: Stutter (7 inch) Deceptive Peelenium 1993
 * 23 February 2000: Connection (LP - Elastica) Deceptive
 * 24 February 2000: Mad Dog God Damn (CD - The Menace) Deceptive (Elastica track is the only one Peel currently has from the forthcoming album. The band's most recent session is being repeated the following week.)
 * 26 February 2000 (BFBS): Mad Dog God Damn (CD-The Menace) Deceptive
 * 07 March 2000: Your Arse My Place (CD - The Menace) Deceptive
 * 08 March 2000: Human (CD - The Menace) Deceptive
 * 09 March 2000: Miami Nice (CD - The Menace) Deceptive
 * 13 March 2000 (BFBS): Mad Dog (CD-The Menace) Deceptive
 * 16 March 2000: Love Like Ours (LP – The Menace) Deceptive (Peel notes similar guitar riff to that of Peter Gunn, which he also plays [twice]).
 * 20 March 2000 (BFBS): Mad Dog (CD-The Menace) Deceptive
 * 20 March 2000 (BFBS): Love Like Ours (CD-The Menace) Deceptive
 * 02 April 2000 (BFBS): Da Da Da (LP-The Menace) Deceptive
 * 05 April 2000: Da Da Da (LP - The Menace) Deceptive
 * 15 August 2000: Connection (LP - Elastica) Deceptive


 * 2001
 * 10 October 2001: Line Up (LP - Radio One Sessions) Strange Fruit
 * 23 October 2001: Waking Up (LP – The Radio One Sessions) Strange Fruit
 * 24 October 2001: All For Gloria (LP - The Radio One Sessions) Strange Fruit


 * 2002
 * 25 December 2002 (Radio Mafia): I Wanna Be A King Of Orient Aah (CD - The Radio One Sessions) Strange Fruit