16 July 1980

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1980-07-16


 * Comments
 * Mentions going for a coffee with Andy Fairweather-Lowe and discussing the merits of the Charly blues series


 * Has a reply to his question about whether any bands come from Shipley (the home of The Pig) in the form of a letter from a band called Heaven 17 "..best of good fortune to them.."Possibly not THE Heaven 17 as they were from Sheffield?


 * First reports that Closer is selling in "embarassing quantities" which should help Factory afford to press up more of the Komakino flexis


 * Session guests Glass Torpedoes are on tour with Gary Glitter!!

Sessions

 * The Stranglers debut session from 1977


 * Glass Torpedoes debut (and only ) session

Tracklisting

 * The Piranhas: Getting Beaten Up


 * Discharge: War's No Fairy Tale


 * Freddy McKay: Just Out Of Reach


 * The Stranglers: Hanging Around (session)


 * The Mekons: Snow


 * Rhythm Clicks: Short Time


 * Jimmy Hughes: Try Me


 * Cruisey Fixers: No Name Girl


 * Joy Division: A Means To An End


 * Eyeless In Gaza: The Feelings Mutual


 * The VKTMS: Midget


 * The Blades: Energy


 * Fashion: Silver Blades


 * Gregory Isaacs: Poor & Clean (for Ali Campbell of UB40)


 * Glass Torpedoes: This Is The End (session)


 * The Stranglers: Something Better Change (session)


 * Bauhaus: Terror Couple Kill Colonel

(tape flip)


 * Steve Swindles: Shot Down In The Night (bad distortion on tape)


 * Glass Torpedoes: Forced To Smile (session)


 * The Fall: How I Wrote Elastic Man


 * Stay Pressed: School Days


 * The Local Heroes: Blast The Pop


 * The Stranglers: Goodbye To Liz


 * King Stit & The Dynamites: Herbsman Shuffle & Phantom


 * Glass Torpedoes: Tall Stories (session)


 * The Exploited: Crashed Out


 * Peter Hamill: Losing Faith In Words


 * Misty In Roots:Mankind


 * Marching Girls: First In Line


 * Glass Torpedoes: Something New (session)


 * The Stranglers: I Feel Like A Wog (session)


 * Henry's Final Dream: In The Market Place

File

 * Name
 * 1980-07-17 John Peel Radio 1 (incomplete).flac


 * Length
 * 00:07:51




 * Other


 * T269 of the 400 Box


 * Another tape of dubious quality - this one has some serious wobble at the end of side one and the start of side two, but is otherwise OK


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