I have acquired a massive collection of reel to reel tapes (about 500), most of them have Peel sessions on, and I am in the process of digitising them. I understand that the majority of Peel sessions (excepting very early ones) are preserved in one form or another, so for the moment I am not bothering to digitise them, focusing instead on the other material (Tommy Vance, Rock Goes To College, In Concert, Rockpalast etc)

My question is, is there a list (either here or elsewhere) that catalogues the missing sessions?

What makes me ask is that I have a track from a Peel session by The Flys from 1979, research indicates there were three sessions in 1979, but only two have been preserved, could it be that the tracy I have is from the "missing" session?

This of course is only the start, and I I can see a list of missing sessions to refer to I can search these reels for them.

This one's from circa 1987-1992 and the lyrics include 'Standing in a queue, for an empty lavator-eeee' and something like 'I'll find another place, in the open space' and 'tick tock tiddle-iddle-ick-tock toilet-eeee'! Male singer and I'm sure there was a trumpet. I'd love to hear it again! Thanks.

Edited to add: It's not Dirtbox Disco.

Hello, in 1985 (maybe 1986) i listened on BFBS to John Peel.

There’s is one song I Will never forgett, but I don’t remeber the artist.

It was one man on piano, with lyrics like “no one can hurt me now, but the need to touch”

Who knows the artist that could have played it?

Thanks very much, Jan

Hi everyone - desperately need help tracking down two tracks that I had on a JPS mix-tape that mysteriously vanished before I could track down the vinyl or CD versions

The first was a really chilled ambient track John played in the early 90's, I'm guessing 1992, that featured a bagpipe sample and a lyric about "Jean Luc" - which I assume was a Star Trek reference

Snippets of this music this are still haunting my dreams, over thirty years later!

I am working through all the 1992 track-listings on here, but I hoping someone here has a better memory of this amazing track

The second track I'm trying to rediscover comes from the time when JP was playing a lot of Astralasia, Loop Guru and similar bands, and was a type of guided meditation voice-over style, going through the spacey properties of different colors in the spectrum

I recall getting seriously chilled out to this tune, but towards the end, the voice abruptly says "I'm leaving you now" which was an inspired way to bring the song to an end

Does any of this sound familiar to anyone?

Thanks

I've wanted to make this post for awhile but never did it for some reason but /:

1: "My Brother"? this one is a hardcore-ish sounding one, taped from a NYC area station 1991-1993, maybe British?, male vocalist, mistagged as "Unseen - Broke" https://app.box.com/s/5wbj0y0d2wnf0r3hfr1a

2: "Jenny"? same story as the last one but a pop rap song, sounds VERY british and has a female vocalist, tagged as "Jenny's Secret - Jenny", https://app.box.com/s/b86iomecen1b84vovczu

3: "Set It Low/Everyone Must Know", Britpop(?) taped from a John Peel show or a pirate station called KFM in the 1990s, male vocalist, https://vocaroo.com/1cnlEl2wJO2L

4: "Shakin'", not confident on what accent this is, taped from WCVT or WHFS around 1991, https://vocaroo.com/1f6rCaCZ8KlO

5: "Take This Chance", same story as 4 but wider range (1985-1991), male vocalist, https://voca.ro/186nqdhKknja

6: "Nothing Like Losing Trust", taped from a Boston college radio station around 1997, sounds British. not sure what gender the vocalist is, sounds female but could just be a male vocalist with a high vocal range. https://voca.ro/1aj6X77XLM4H

Please let me know if any of you guys recognize any of these tracks.

Their collection of Gemischt tapes are of interest to r/TheMysteriousSong, they contain NDR shows.

Why is "Gemischt 005" tape missing? https://mooo.peelwiki.com/dl/max-dat/Gemischt/1984/

Hi

I had a large ammount of mixtapes from the Peel show recorded in 1980 to 1982. I am trying to reproduce them from memory, its a slog.

I remember one track I am looking for from years of listening to it on a mix tape.... the lyrics were at the end of the track as it faded out. I remember them as

"...you'll be ok... if you speak a little italian"

Any ideas?

Thanks for this page. Mr John Peel was the best musical source ever. Such a diversity of styles/music eras and, last but not least, constantly playing The Fall.

I've not enough time to do something like this myself, but I'm thinking that a tag for DJ mixes might be useful.

I plan to go through all them and make full tracklistings for all the sets at some point, like with John Armstrong & Autechre.

...yeah that's it.

Hi, can anyone tell me the username & password for downloading? TIA Graham

I have two sets of JP Show tapes, those on TDK 120 minute tapes which play like new and similar BASF tapes which are ruined by what I assume to be iron oxide on the tape much to my chagrin.

I am on the verge of binning the BASF tapes as I plan to relocate sometime in the future but see that Weatherman has been sent tapes to repair and digitize. Is there any remote chance the BASF tapes can be recovered?

Have added a new section of this name to the right hand column on the front page, intended for those who should probably always have a front page link. Think it might come across as a bit of a Peel show "hall of fame" or "Mount Rushmore", but not planned as that. Wanted to make it easier for new users to find stuff they associate with Peel.

Please let me know below if you notice anyone really obvious I've missed. There were a few I was in two minds about, but decided they miss out if there are any doubts they were an important part of the "Peel story".

Don't really want to add too many more, as space is relatively limited. Only one entry per artist/band (eg, only Pink Floyd with no separate one for Syd Barrett).