Cuban Boys


 * Career outline (no more than two paragraphs, please)
 * Links to Peel (no more than two paragraphs, please)
 * Links to Peel (no more than two paragraphs, please)

Festive Fifty Entries

 * 1998 Festive Fifty: Oh My God! They Killed Kenny! #6


 * 1999 Festive Fifty: Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia #1
 * 1999 Festive Fifty: Flossie's Alarming Clock #28


 * 2000 Festive Fifty: Vinyl Countdown #29
 * 2000 Festive Fifty: Theme For Prim & Proper #34


 * 2001 Festive Fifty: Drink Drink Drink #23


 * Post-Peel
 * 2005 Festive Fifty: The Nation Needs You #33

Sessions
Two sessions. No known commercial release.

1. Recorded 1998-12-06. First broadcast 13 January 1999. 2. Recorded 2000-03-22. First broadcast 10 May 2000.
 * Oh My God They Killed Kenny / Stardust Pt. 3 Ariana In Space / Hanging On The Telephone / Let's Get Raunchier
 * From Out Of Nowhere / The Number One Song In Heaven / Ghosts / The Laughing Gnome

Other Shows Played
)The list below was compiled only from the database of this site and Lorcan's Tracklistings Archive. Please add more information if known.)


 * 1998
 * 21 July 1998: Cuban Boys Go Boom! (EP - Cuban Boy) CDr
 * 28 July 1998: Cuban Boys Go Boom! (EP - Cuban Boy) CDr
 * 18 August 1998: Foggy Mountain Breakdown (EP - Breakdown At Tiffanys) Unknown
 * 19 August 1998: Let's Get Raunchy (EP - Breakdown At Tiffanys) Unknown
 * 20 August 1998: Oh My God! They Killed Kenny (EP - Breakdown At Tiffany's) Unknown
 * 23 August 1998 (BFBS): Let's Get Raunchy (EP-Breakdown At Tiffany's)' (white label) (JP mentions that he is an admirer of South Park.)
 * 26 August 1998: Oh My God! They Killed Kenny (EP - Breakdown At Tiffany's) white label
 * 03 September 1998: Oh My God! They Killed Kenny (EP - Breakdown At Tiffany's) Unknown
 * 06 September 1998 (BFBS): Oh My God! They Killed Kenny (7") For Us
 * 21 October 1998: Oh My God! They Killed Kenny (EP - Breakdown At Tiffany's) Unknown
 * 29 October 1998: Oh My God! They Killed Kenny (remix)
 * 05 November 1998: Stardust (Part 1 They Came From Outer Space) (EP – Ariana) white label
 * 29 December 1998: (JP: “At number 6, a record which has never even been available in the shops! Fantastic, though.”) Oh My God! They Killed Kenny! (7 inch)' (Rough Trade Shops) FF#6


 * 1999
 * 07 April 1999: Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia (EP - Unsigned Band Seek Label - Will Travel) white label
 * 13 April 1999: Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia (EP - Unsigned Band Seek Label - Will Travel) CDr
 * 22 April 1999: Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia (EP - Unsigned Band Seek Label - Will Travel) CDr
 * 27 April 1999: Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia (EP - Unsigned Band Seek Label - Will Travel) CDr
 * 05 May 1999: Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia (EP - Unsigned Band Seek Label - Will Travel) White label
 * 20 May 1999: Foggy Mountain Breakdown (EP - Blueprint For Modernisation) Org
 * 25 May 1999: Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia (EP - Unsigned Band Seek Label - Will Travel) White label
 * 25 May 1999: Oh My God They Killed Kenny (Helium Hardcore Mix) (EP) Org
 * 08 June 1999: Flossie's Alarming Clock (EP – Faster Than A Speeding Bullet Train) white label
 * 09 June 1999: Stardust (Part 1 They Came From Outer Space) (EP – Blueprint For Modernisation) Org
 * 10 June 1999: Flossie's Alarming Clock (white label) (Running Cuban Boys theme through the evening with assorted members emailing Peel (“signs of boyband style conflict”), as well as plays for a remix by the band and eventually Flossie’s Alarming Clock.)
 * 16 June 1999: Cuban Boys (Cuban Boys Go Boom! Mix) (CD Single - Blueprint For Modernisation EP) Org Records
 * 08 July 1999: Flossie's Alarming Clock
 * 21 July 1999: Flossie's Alarming Clock (white label)
 * 12 August 1999: Flossie's Alarming Clock (demo)
 * 16 September 1999: Team Jordan (CDR) white label (track is from the band’s birthday present to Peel)
 * 29 September 1999: (An email from Skreen of the Cuban Boys mentions the upcoming single release of Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia.)
 * 02 November 1999: Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia (promo CDr) EMI
 * 10 November 1999: Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia (promo CDr) EMI ((JP: “Not on the Radio 1 playlist, I'm advised, which is perfectly extraordinary. Apparently, it's assessed as being a kind of novelty record and therefore not worthy of playing.”)
 * 17 November 1999: (Peel rips into Ally McBeal, but as the female staff of the programme and the Cuban Boys leap to its defence finds himself in a minority of one.)
 * 25 November 1999: Flossie's Alarming Clock (unreleased)
 * 30 November 1999: Open The Door, Richard! (EP: In The Footsteps of Emma) EMI
 * 13 December 1999 (BFBS): Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia (CDS) EMI (JP: 'Well, they may turn out to be one-hit wonders, but this programme has been with them from the start.' He guesses that the Cuban Boys single, which was being tipped to be the Christmas number one single in the UK that year, may be "the most irritating number 1 single since Two Little Boys" (it got to number 4).)
 * 14 December 1999: Ten Happy Fingers (demo CD)
 * 22 December 1999: Fluorescent Dream Beams (CDS-Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia) EMI
 * 28 December 1999: Flossie's Alarming Clock (exclusive to Peel Show) FF#28
 * 29 December 1999: Cognoscenti Vs Intelligentsia-Original Mix (CDr promo) EMI FF#1


 * 2000
 * 16 February 2000: Inertia Kicks (Single) white label
 * 22 February 2000: Inertia Kicks (EP - Saviours Of The Cheese Factory) white label
 * 02 March 2000: Patsy Prozac (CD Single: Inertia Kicks) white label
 * 07 March 2000: Inertia Kicks (EP - Saviours Of The Cheese Factory) white label
 * 06 April 2000: Inertia Kicks (Single) white label
 * 27 April 2000: I Like Everybody (LP - Eastwood) EMI
 * 09 May 2000: Automaton & On (LP - Eastwood) EMI
 * 06 June 2000: Patsy Prozac (CD - Saviours Of The Cheese Factory)
 * 07 June 2000: Czar Zoo (LP - Eastwood) demo
 * 08 June 2000: Self Esteem (CD - Eastwood) white label
 * 13 June 2000: Theme For Prim & Proper (7” - Flossie's Alarming Clock) white label
 * 21 June 2000: Theme For Prim & Proper (7” - Flossie's Alarming Clock) white label
 * 22 June 2000: Flossie's Alarming Clock (EP - Old School For Scoundrels)
 * 27 June 2000: Theme For Prim & Proper (EP - Theme For Prim & Proper) white label
 * 29 June 2000: Theme For Prim & Proper (EP - Theme For Prim & Proper) white label
 * 22 June 2000: Theme For Prim & Proper (EP - Old School For Scoundrels) Prim & Proper
 * 05 September 2000: The Flight Of Sarah Bee (EP - Plying The Orchestra) unreleased
 * 20 September 2000: Ludwig Ludwig (EP: Plying The Orchestra) white label (JP: “That was the Cuban Boys who got one of the worst album reviews in the history of the NME, 2 out of 10 I think, and we love them for that.”)
 * 04 October 2000: Czai Zoo (EP - Eastwood) EMI
 * 08 November 2000: The Vinyl Countdown (EP: The Cuban Boys on TV) CDR demo
 * 14 November 2000: The Vinyl Countdown (EP: The Cuban Boys on TV) CDR demo
 * 28 November 2000: The Vinyl Countdown (EP: The Cuban Boys on TV) CDR demo
 * 06 December 2000: Ten Shillings A Years (EP: The Cuban Boys On TV) white label
 * 27 December 2000: Theme For Prim & Proper (7 inch-Old Skool For Scoundrels)' (Prim & Proper) FF#34
 * 27 December 2000: Vinyl Countdown (EP-Cuban Boys On TV) white label FF#29


 * 2001
 * 27 March 2001: Drink (EP: Toasting the Industry) white label
 * 06 April 2000: Inertia Kicks (CD-Eastwood) EMI
 * 10 April 2001: Drink (EP – Toasting the Industry) white label
 * 18 April 2001: Drink (EP – Toasting the Industry) white label
 * 29 May 2001: EMI (EP: Four New Singles From Damaged Goods) Damaged Goods
 * 07 August 2001: (Skreen from the Cuban Boys gets in touch during the show to announce the current state of play in the poll on their drinkdrinkdrink website, which posed the question, 'who would you most like to go drinking with?'. Peel discovers - "And at number one it's me." This sample was later used on the Cuban Boys' posthumous tribute, 'The Nation Needs You'.)
 * 20 November 2001: Disco Boy (EP - Return To The Valley Of The Cuban Boys) white Label
 * 21 November 2001: title not announced (EP – Return To The Valley Of The Cuban Boys) white label
 * 28 November 2001: Drink Drink Drink (promo CD) Sanctuary
 * 26 December 2001: Drink Drink Drink (Promo CD-Drink) Sanctuary FF#23


 * 2002
 * 18 April 2002: (Email from Skreen of the Cuban Boys, who says he dreamed Peel was serving him in a sweet shop and trying to give him a big bag of chocolates for the same price as a small one. Happily, “no bodily fluids were exchanged.”)


 * 2004
 * 16 March 2004: (Disclaimer for Peel show from Skreen of Cuban Boys.)