ICA Rock Week

In early October 1984, Peel chose all the bands for an "ICA Rock Week" event at the central London arts center, with all the performances recorded for broadcast on his or Janis Long's programmes. The advance publicity for the event proclaimed, "John Peel is putting the fun back into being pretentious."

One of the more notorious sets during the week SPK's, which ended in a riot (see riot NME report. Peel had apparently already left when the trouble started.

Lineup
(from 20 September 1984 show)


 * Oct 2: Yip Yip Coyote, Yeah Yeah Noh, Pink Peg Slax
 * Oct 3: Perfect Vision, (presumably Chinese Gangster Element), Hardcore
 * Oct 4: Shoot! Dispute, Big Flame, SPK
 * Oct 5: Terry & Gerry, Woodentops, Nightingales (Peel unable to attend as had been booked for gig in Middlesborough)
 * Oct 6: The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Very Things, Helen & The Horns
 * Oct 7: Ellery Bop, Ut, Marc Riley & The Creepers

Peel show broadcasts
(Dates from Garner p. 227)


 * 02 October 1984: Yip Yip Cayote (live broadcast)
 * 19 November 1984: Big Flame, SPK, Terry And Gerry (see John Peel Terry & Gerry 1984)
 * 26 November 1984: Chinese Gangster Element, Hard Corps, Shoot! Dispute, Perfect Vision
 * 03 December 1984: Pink Peg Slax, Marc Riley & The Creepers, Woodentops
 * 10 December 1984: Yeah Yeah Noh, The Very Things, Helen & The Horns, Ellery Bop
 * 17 December 1984: Men They Couldn't Hang, Ut, NIghtingales