20 February 2003

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 2003-02-20


 * Comments
 * In the continuing build-up to the following month’s invasion of Iraq, plays without comment another track from The Fire This Time album.
 * Following an email message that mentions the Four Brothers: ”On a decidedly melancholy note, I read in the one of the papers this week that the last surviving member of the original band died recently. It can’t be much of a place for music at the moment, Zimbabwe, I wouldn’t have thought. But when I think that the band played twice in our garden, I have a special affection for the Four Brothers.”
 * Plays Bug record at wrong speed – “I thought it sounded all right actually until the vocals came in.”
 * Although it’s “fantastically bigheaded,” JP reads a quote by John Lennon he’s been sent, from the book ‘John Lennon Sometime In 1969’. When asked about listening to the radio, Lennon apparently said: “John Peel is the only thing worth listening to.” Peel says he’s never heard this before and seems genuinely moved.
 * Says that in a “rather childish but enormously satisfying gesture” he’s sent back the copy of the latest White Stripes single, which came with a note saying it was all right to play it. Says he’s still not allowed to play the album.

Sessions

 * Appliance

Tracklisting
Capitol
 * Ex Models: The Idea Of Peter North (LP - Other Mathematics) Ace Fu
 * Mike Shannon: Unexpected Vengeance (LP - Slight Of Hand) Force Inc.
 * Fall: Ludd Gang (LP - The Rough Trade Singles Box) Castle Music
 * Lord Power: Penny Reel (7" single) Downbeat
 * Pretty Girls Make Graves: Speakers Push The Air (LP - Counter Culture 2002) Rough Trade Shops
 * Appliance: Mountains 1 (Peel Session)
 * Sketch & Code: Fear No Evil (12" single) Emotif
 * Detroit Cobras: Silver And Gold (EP - Seven Easy Pieces) Rough Trade
 * Country Joe & The Fish: Silver And Gold (LP - C.J. Fish) Vanguard
 * Soma: Get Thee Behind Me (LP - The Fire This Time) Hidden Art
 * Super Furry Animals: Pan Ddaw'r Wawr (LP - Depressed Celts Vol. 1) Placid Casual
 * Appliance: As Far As I Can See (Peel Session)
 * Black Uhuru: Times To Unite Dub (10” single) Prince Jammy’s Gold
 * Donna Summer: What You Truly Need (LP - This Needs To Be Your Style) Irritant
 * Knifehandchop: Vertical (Raka Mix) Bling The Noize/Irritant
 * Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps: Jumps, Giggles, And Shouts (LP - Be-Bop-A-Lula)
 * Bug: Executor (LP – Pressure) white label
 * Appliance: Tuesday's Nearly Over (Peel Session)
 * Moderat: Mode 2 (EP - Auf Kosten Der Gesdundheit) EPCTRL
 * Biffy Clyro: The Ideal Height (CD single) Beggars Banquet
 * Melys: Dirty (LP - Casting Pearls) Sylem

File

 * Name
 * John_Peel_20030220.mp3
 * Length
 * 2.00.30


 * Other


 * Available
 * John Peel Torrent Compilation 13 of 17 (2002-3)