29 December 1986

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1986-12-29


 * Comments
 * Start of show (JP pretending to be drunk): 'Welcome to tonight's programme. Affectionate greetings to everyone except Norman Whiteside, yet again, and especially to my friends Lothar and Tullus, who come from Germany to visit us in our mountain pass, crossing the Channel in a force 9 gale. I forget what they call that, the language gets quite Biblical describing gales when you get past 8.'
 * The fourth part of the 1986 Festive Fifty (numbers 20-11), together with the customary end of year session repeats.

Sessions

 * Primitives, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1986-09-30. No known commercial release.
 * Twang, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1986-09-07. No known commercial release.
 * Stars Of Heaven, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1986-05-13. '28'and 'Every Other Day' available on Unfinished Dreaming (Independent).
 * Miaow, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1986-06-08. No known commercial release.
 * 14 Iced Bears, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1986-10-28. Available on In The Beginning (Slumberland). (JP: 'This was one of my favourite sessions of the year. I suppose they all are, but this one, because the single that I got, OK, there was one track on it that I really liked. It's one of those things where you draw a bow at adventure. Walters and myself did, and came up with a session that I liked a lot.')
 * James, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1986-01-12. No known commercial release.
 * Laibach, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1986-06-15. 'Krvava Gruda - Podna Zemlja' and 'Krst' released on Slovenska Akropola (Ropot).

Tracklisting

 * Primitives: 'Stop Killing Me' (Peel Session)
 * Twang: 'What's The Rap?' (Peel Session)
 * Stars Of Heaven: '28' (Peel Session)
 * Miaow: 'Three Quarters Of The Way To Paradise' (Peel Session)
 * 14 Iced Bears: 'The Balloon Song' (Peel Session)
 * James: 'Insect' (Peel Session)
 * (Dave Lee Travis 'don't drink and drive' information message)
 * Laibach: 'Krst' (Peel Session)
 * Primitives: 'Shadow' (Peel Session)
 * Stars Of Heaven: 'Every Other Day' (Peel Session)
 * (John mentions 'Just 17' magazine and a list of things that they think will be big in 1987, including 'not wearing underpants': when mentioning the Beastie Boys, he remarks, 'I don't think so.' Licensed To Ill went on to sell five million copies.)
 * Twang: 'Every Home Should have One' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'On the same page of 'Just 17', there's a picture of John Lydon making a V-sign at the photographer. Very revolutionary. I think it's about time to grow out of that one, John.')
 * 14 Iced Bears: 'Cut' (Peel Session) (suddenly slows down in the middle: John admits he pressed a button by mistake to cause this)
 * (JP plays a section of a Finnish radio broadcast, possibly around one of his own shows for them, in which he claims they compliment his show)
 * Miaow: 'Did She' (Peel Session)
 * James: 'Really Hard' (Peel Session)
 * Laibach: 'Live Is Life' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'If cover versions are going to be that radical, I want more of them in 1987, rather than people doing their own dreary tunes from time to time.')
 * Stars Of Heaven: 'What Else Could You' (Peel Session)
 * Primitives: 'Buzz Buzz Buzz' (Peel Session)
 * Twang: 'Intrusion' (Peel Session)
 * 14 Iced Bears: 'Shy Like You' (Peel Session)
 * (Smith and Jones trailer for Newsbeat 86)
 * James: 'Scarecrow' (Peel Session)
 * (tape flip in the middle of this)

File

 * Name
 * 29th December 1986 parts 1 & 2
 * Length
 * Part 1 - 01:05:39
 * Part 2 - 00:56:58


 * Other
 * Excellent quality stereo recording, marred only by brief moments of static.


 * Available
 * Part 1, Part 2