John Peel - Bow Wow Wow - 81

Tape

 * Name


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM
 * 1981


 * Another in a select series of Peel compilations by Peel Mailing List user Mark.
 * He comments: "This tape contains 'the supreme achievement of the 20th century' as well as mention of the Sheena Barmy Army! Again, maddeningly for completists not a complete set of session tracks from anyone. From sessions played appears to have been recorded underneath my bedclothes on my crappy mono tape/radio machine on 9 and 10 Feb 81. Then I captured the Associates on 4/5. Evidence at the way he constructed shows here – songs are often linked by title or band name. Early evidence of the Scandinavian invasion to come with Cut… and lots of early synth bands that faded into the mists of time– Kickpartners seem to have disappeared from history which is sad as this is a great toon. I can’t even find them on the web. I share John’s love of Reggae – 'Life would be even more of a bleak business than it is already without the Regs…' and all of my mix tapes reflect that."
 * Sessions featured in this recording:
 * Ski Patrol, one and only session. Recorded 1981-01-19, first broadcast 22 January 1981, this repeat 10 February 1981.


 * Psychedelic Furs, #3. Recorded 1981-02-02, first broadcast 10 February 1981.

Tracklisting

 * Ski Patrol: 'Extinguish' (Peel Session)
 * Brian Copsey and the Commotions – Boys in Love [7' Chrysalis 1981]
 * (JP: 'Play me that twangy guitar and I’m anybodies… I mention all of this Sheena Barmy Army Stuff in the hope that when the John Peel Roadshow goes out and does one of its awful gigs and I put on a Sheena Easton record, and I do fans, everyone goes SHEENA SHEENA like that and they did in Nottingham, which is what they are supposed to do. In Southampton recently they just stood and stared at me as if to say this man is a loony.')
 * U Roy – Puppet on a String from LP Love Is Not A Gamble
 * Big Hair – Puppet on a String on Fresh Records 7”
 * (JP: 'Earlier on this evening I was downstairs watching Susan and her Banshees recording a session and on the evidence of what I heard it’s a good one.')
 * Bow WoW WoW: 'Sexy Eiffel Tower from Your Cassette Pet (EMI WOW 1, cassette, 1980)
 * Psychedelic Furs – All of this and nothing [session]
 * (JP: 'Last night after the show I went grooving, you know how it is the bright lights of London are so terribly attractive so I quite often go, you know, swinging after the programme I went down to a place called Heaven underneath the arches to see New Order. Never got to see Joy Division something I regret terribly but New Order were very good although the sound was a little odd and the vocals were almost inaudible.')
 * Ski Patrol – Cut [session]
 * Cut – New King – a Norwegian band from an EP 4 cuts “Don’t sound very Norwegian, not that I’m certain what Norwegians should sound like”
 * Kick partners – Steelworkers a 12” Revolution. Did a session in ‘83
 * Pylon – Driving School 10” EP Armageddon Records – an Athens Georgia band. CD available http://www.myspace.com/wearepylon
 * (JP: 'Sounds like a companion record to a home dentistry course – good though – I’m not criticising it. I wouldn’t dare do that in case you send me hostile letters. You wouldn’t think whilst I’m prattling cheerfully on that I have a terrible sore throat.')
 * WORK IN PROGRESS

File

 * Name
 * John Peel - Bow Wow Wow 81
 * Length
 * 01:33:03


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


 * Available
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