23 December 1995 (BFBS)

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel's Music On BFBS


 * Station
 * BfBS (Germany)


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1995-12-23


 * Comments
 * Start of show: "Howdy, it's another John Peel's Music On BFBS, a programme this week with a first class tale to tell, as George Formby once sang. That'll come up later on. I'll try not to talk too much, but it has been an interesting week. To start, though, this is..."
 * John tells the story of his appearance on This Is Your Life (transcribed below).

Sessions

 * None

Tracklisting

 * Dreadzone: 'Little Britain (Vocal Version) (CDS)' (Virgin)
 * Grifters: 'Covered With Flies (LP-Ain't My Lookout)' (Sub Pop)
 * (JP: 'About two months ago, three months ago, somebody said to me, "You know Rick Blaxill, who's the producer of Top Of The Pops is trying to get in touch with you?", and I thought, "I'm not going to fall for that one, I've been down that road before." You know, people say, "They're trying to get in touch with you from the Palace," and you phone up, "Sorry mate, we don't know what you're on about."...Eventually, he phoned me up at home himself, the producer, and said, "We'd like you to do another Top Of The Pops." Now, I've not done Top Of The Pops for 9 years and I didn't much enjoy the last few I did. I used to do it years and years and years ago with Kid Jensen (David Jensen), who's a man I like very much indeed anyway, and we had a thoroughly good time doing it: it was most amusing for us, anyway, if not for anybody else.
 * But I thought, well, I'll give it a go again, the children will quute enjoy it. I said to our Flossie, who watches Top Of The Pops, "Do you want to come with me?", and she said, "Oh, do I have to, Dad?" (traditional response)...I was a bit surprised that they'd asked me, really, because I'm not a vision of physical loveliness these days, and I'd be about three times the age of everybody else who was on the programme. But he said, "I'll make sure there's some things on the programme that you'll like." So I agreed to do it, and obviously you don't know who's going to be on it until a few days beforehand: and there's absolutely nobody on it that I like at all! In fact, there were several people that I've met and rather dislike: Mick Hucknall out of Simply Red, who I had a row with many years ago, and whom I've disliked intensely ever since, and Bjork, who I was once introduced to...and she just without a word turned around, walked to the other end of the room, and stood staring out of the window! and I thought, "That's a bit rude." And then there were other people like Boyzone and Everything But The Girl, things which you can take or leave. It was most odd.
 * But I did the programme and I hated it, to be honest. I mean, It was very stressful, 'cos the technology has changed a lot, and you've got these high-speed cameras whizzing about all over the place, and I kept forgetting to look. You're supposed to look. All cameras used to have a little red light just on top of the camera, and you'd look below that, and you were looking at the lens. These ones, which I hadn't sort of realised, have the little red lights about six inches to the left soilooked at that and I looked at the people who were watching as though I'd got a squint, so they'd stop everything and say, "John, can you remember to try and look at the lens?" And they'd have to back up two or three nuumbers because it's done so quickly and so cleverly that they have to go and get Boyzone back out of their dressing room, and "He's made a mess of the link again, lads! Sorry, you'll have to put your make-up on and come back up again and get on those stage clothes and stuff," and it was a disaster from that point of view.')


 * Sewing Room: 'Broken Life Waltz (CD-And Nico)' (Dead Elvis)

File

 * Name
 * Peel Show 1995-12-23 (BFBS)
 * Length
 * 01:54:14


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