Can I Hear Shipbuilding

Tape

 * Name
 * Can I Hear Shipbuilding


 * Station
 * BBC Radio One


 * YYYY-MM
 * 1982

There is the John Peel Dub – I have wanted to put together a tape of all songs that name check the great man but get stuck after two – this and The Ruts TV Stars.- must be more…"
 * Another in a series of Peel compilations spanning the years from Peel Mailing List user Mark.
 * He comments: "n September 1982 I went to University and quickly came to hate almost everybody there apart from a John from ‘Ull who I met the very first night – we quickly realised that we did not share the others enthusiasm for mindlessness student activities but shared a love of “alternative” music as it was quaintly known. He went up in my estimation as he had once bought Wreckless Eric a cup of tea, I think I went up in his estimation as I had heard of Wreckless Eric and had a selection of Peel tapes. We both had funny early 80s haircuts (mine resembled Neil from Blancmange) and spent the next three years befriending others with funny haircuts and working out how to subvert the system – some of the time this consisted of wearing dresses, playing Anarchy in the UK very loudly out of our windows and throwing Smarties at rugby types. This tape is called “Can I hear shipbuilding?” because John often used to come and knock on my door and ask to hear the track. We rejoiced in the loud twang in the middle so much (caused by radio interference?) that I miss it whenever I hear the proper version. Similarly he had captured “Story of the Blues” on tape so when I was feeling lonely I would knock on his door and ask if I could hear Wah! We later bought each other the vinyl versions … the rest is history.
 * Sessions featured in this recording:
 * Redskins, #1. Recorded 1982-10-09, first broadcast 20 October 1982. Available on The Peel Session (Strange Fruit).
 * [Come In Tokio]], #2. Recorded 1982-09-15, first broadcast 28 September 1982. No known commercial release.
 * Outcasts, #2. Recorded 1982-09-15, first broadcast 29 September 1982. No known commercial release.
 * Mad Professor, one and only session. Recorded 1982-09-23, first broadcast 04 October 1982. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting
Chevy – Give Me More
 * Redskins – Red Strike The Blues (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'Aspects of that song rather sadly overtaken by events.')
 * Tamlins – Real Love http://www.roots-archives.com/release/3511 on Sly and Robbie Unmetered Taxi on Pressure Sounds CD #PSCD43 2004
 * Come in Tokio – Say You’ll Never Go Away Again (Peel Session)
 * Don McCarlos – Soldier Man A Come (Volcano Records)
 * Better Beatles – I’m Down http://www.hookorcrook.com/Bands-BetterBeatles.htm
 * (JP: 'Well, I was so busy tapping my toes to that, and thoroughly enjoying the sounds of the Better Beatles that I forgot to cue up the next record I’ll just have to look across and see what speed it should play that rather embarrassing but an old pro like me doesn’t often make mistakes like that as you realize –that was on Woodgrain records from Omaha Nebraska – and apparently there are only 30 copies of them made and if I was a record company and its probably just as well that I am not as I would be impoverished – I mean more impoverished than I am already I’d sign them to a long term contract but only on the condition they changed their name with every record.')
 * Redskins – Unionize & Pickin' The Blues-outro (Peel Session)
 * Disconnection – Bali Ha'i http://www.discogs.com/Various-Birth-Of-The-Y/master/48716
 * China Crisis – Seven Sports for All
 * (JP: 'Actually I think I’ll just let that run on into the next track as I want to hear that myself.')
 * China Crisis – No More Blue Horizons
 * China Crisis – Feel to be Driven Away All from Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms
 * WaDaDa – Hit Song
 * Unidentified
 * (tape flip)
 * Blitz – I Don’t Need You
 * Artery – The Clown
 * Outcasts – Magnum Force (Peel Session)
 * Black Uhuru – Bad Girl Dub
 * Undertones – Love Parade
 * Harry the Hipster Gibson – Put a Nickel in the Slot
 * Eraserhead – No One Sees Us Now
 * Mad Professor – John Peel Dub (Peel Session)
 * (JP: 'I’m not certain that having something that sounds like a bunch of old washing machine parts being dragged around in a sack named after you is entirely complimentary.')
 * You’ve Got Foetus on Your Breath – Gums Bleed
 * Robert Wyatt – Shipbuilding
 * Zoo, Zoo Sparks – Big Boys
 * It’s Immaterial – A Gigantic Raft in the Philipines
 * Blue Orchids – Agents of Change http://www.blueorchids.net/discs.asp 12 RTT117 Rough Trade EP 03/82

File

 * Name
 * Can I Hear Shipbuilding
 * Length
 * 01:33:08


 * Other
 * Shared via Peel Mailing List.
 * Many thanks to Mark.


 * Available
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