01 May 2002

Show

Start of show: “Hello, listeners. We’re down at Maida Vale. I think this is going to be one of those programmes in a few years’ time you brag to your mates that you were listening to it.” JP enjoys the show so much he partly loses his voice in the course of it.
Before the band's set, Peel says (whispers) that the Datsuns were “shit hot” in rehearsal. Highly enthusiastic about their performance afterwards as well: "I don't want to go all corporate on you, but do you get anything this good on any of those other crap stations that you're sometimes tempted to listen to? I think you don't."
Part two of the Pig's Big 78 will be played the following evening.
Plays Simple Minds track, “a great favourite of mine from whenever it was”, after reading in a paper that the band are suddenly hip again in California.
A Clifford T Ward track from 1973 is played as Samurai Seven will cover the song in tomorrow night’s session.

Datsuns #1 Live at Maida Vale. 'Fink For The Man' officially released on Kats Karavan: The History Of John Peel On The Radio (UMC, 2009)
Come-Ons #1 Live at Maida Vale. No known commercial release.

Miss Black America: Talk Hard (single) Integrity
Heiko Laux: Making It Detroit (LP – Ornaments) Kanzleramt
Oxes: Half, Half & Half (LP – Oxxes) Monitor
Count Lasher’s Calypso Quintet: Slide Mongoose (LP – Boogu Yagga Gal: Jamaican Mento 1950s) Heritage
Datsuns live at Maida Vale

Yami Bolo: Ghetto Under Fire
Clifford T Ward: Wherewithal (LP – Home Thoughts) Charisma
Sender Berlin: Dr Sorge Is Watching The Planet (LP – Gestern Heute Morgen) Tresor

(JP: “I think I can hardly convey to you in words how wonderful it is to be doing programmes like this.”)

Fixit Kid: L.I.S.A. C. (single) Sickroom Gramophonic Collective
Sinthetix: Dementia (3x12” – The Harder They Come Part 3: Colonization) Renegade Hardware
Meat Purveyors: The Last Waltz (LP – All Relationships Are Doomed To Fail) Bloodshot