28 December 1987

Show

 * Name
 * John Peel Show


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM-DD
 * 1987-12-28


 * Comments
 * Start of show: 'Well, I hope you were listening to Anne Nightingale's 'Rock In Russia'. Right towards the end of it, a woman was saying that she was sitting in a taxi in Moscow recently, and heard them play a Genesis song followed by a Van Halen song. As if they didn't have life hard enough as it was!')''
 * The third instalment of the 1987 Festive Fifty backed by repeats of the best sessions of the year.

Sessions

 * Bhundu Boys, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1986-12-12. No known commercial release.
 * Fall
 * Darling Buds
 * Terence Trent D'Arby
 * Electro Hippies, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1987-07-12. Available on The Peel Sessions (sic) (Strange Fruit).
 * Housemartins

Tracklisting

 * (JP: 'We're going to start with the Electro Hippies.')
 * Electro Hippies: 'Mega-Armageddon Death' (Peel Session) (one chord lasting one second)
 * (JP: 'And now, the Bhundu Boys.')
 * Bhundu Boys: 'Jig-A-Jig' (Peel Session)
 * Darling Buds: 'I Couldn't Remember' (Peel Session)
 * Electro Hippies: 'Sheep' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'You won't be too surprised to learn that plans have been made at the highest level for us to have another session by the Electro Hippies as soon as we possibly can.') This never came about.
 * Housemartins: 'There Is Always Something There To Remind Me' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'I got a Christmas card from them, but printed, which I always regard as being slightly below the belt. I got one of those years ago from Cliff Richard, of all people.')
 * Terence Trent D'Arby: 'Under My Thumb' (Peel Session) (a Rolling Stones cover)
 * Fall: 'Australians In Europe' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'Aren't you impressed with the fact that we're something like 24 minutes into the programme (actually 22-SIG), and haven't yet mentioned what I did over Christmas? Went to the pub, had a bit of a party in which I did my Ancient Mariner routine, and wrote lots of letters.')
 * Bhundu Boys: 'Ndoita Sei?' (Peel Session)
 * Electro Hippies: 'Starve The City (To Feed The Poor)/Meltdown' (Peel Session)
 * Darling Buds: 'It's Up To You' (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'You probably want to know what I got for Christmas, well I'm sure everybody's been telling you: a pair of waders, so that next time my house is threatened with flood waters, I can get into the stream and sort it out; and an axe, so I can chop down trees and things like that, if they threaten to cause flooding.')
 * Terence Trent D'Arby: 'Heartbreak Hotel (an Elvis Presley cover)/'Mannish Boy (a Muddy Waters cover)' (Peel Session)
 * Electro Hippies: 'Escape' (Peel Session)

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