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03 September 1993

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1993-09-03
Comments
  • John holds a competition to win five copies of Ken Garner's In Session Tonight, with questions (not about football) provided by Ken himself, but unfortunately the first recording cuts out just before we get to hear it (however, see comments on 10 September 1993). Two further files from the same stable continue after a gap plus several tracks from mixtapes: the combined timing indicates that some 17 minutes of the show are still missing.
  • Three tracks from the new Guided By Voices LP are played.

Sessions[]

  • Flipper, one and only session. Recorded 1993-08-15. No known commercial release. 'Telephone' missing from available recording.
  • CNN, one and only session. Recorded 1993-07-27. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting[]

Files 1 & 6 & a begin at start of show

(JP: 'I had a most bizarre experience on Wednesday. I had an appointment with the incoming controller (Matthew Bannister) at 6 o'clock in the evening to have a beer and talk about life and so on, and having already let him down once, I thought I'd better get in nice and early, so I went to Stowmarket to catch the 1.30 train, and it was about five minutes late, you know, but that didn't bother me unduly. And this isn't slagging off British Rail, 'cos I know there's a kind of political dimension to all of this, and underfunding and all that kind of stuff, but it was one of those entirely bizarre journeys. By 5 o'clock, I'd got as far as Chelmsford. I thought, shall I go on? By this time I'd started sort of addressing all of the people in the train, or my compartment anyway, and suggesting that we went and stormed the first class compartments and actually sat down rather than standing up while we waited. Fortunately, I bumped into this fellow who'd been the guard on the train coming out...he'd been involved in some capacity on the train, and it turned out, he suggested to me that perhaps the best thing to do would be to go and catch the train back to Stowmarket, 'cos when I got into London, there was a very good chance that I wouldn't get back out again, and this did indeed turn out to be the case, because some people who caught the train I would have caught were sort of abandoned, according to today's papers, at a railway station just outside London at about sort of quarter to one in the morning, or something rather grim like that. Anyway, this chap on the railway and meself were discussing the merits of the Undertones. I said I'm a Teenage Kicks man, and he turned out to be a My Perfect Cousin man, and so, should he be listening tonight, here is exactly that record.')
  • Undertones: 'My Perfect Cousin (7")' (Sire)
  • Flipper: 'We're Not Crazy' (Peel Session) #
  • Loopzone: 'Highway 2000 (12"-404)' (MFS) @3 &
(JP: 'It turns out that my British Rail Undertones fan was listening: Mick Peters, Senior Conductor, on his way home after another hard day's work, I don't doubt.')

File a ends

  • CNN: 'America' (Peel Session)
(JP: 'There's a bit of a knees-up going on at Peel Acres at the moment: of course, I'm here doing my duty for you and I'm very happy to be in that situation, but I wouldn't mind being back at home as well, because our friend Lesley Fraser is celebrating her birthday as of forty seconds ago, so many happy returns of the day, Lesley.')

File 1 ends

File 8 cuts in near end of next track

  • Stereolab: French Disco (10" - Jenny Ondioline) Duophonic (Record gets abandoned after a minute or so, as Peel has problems with the turntable) &

File 2

(JP: 'I'll have another go at playing that Stereolab track in just a moment, in fact just after this next one.')
  • CNN: 'Too Many Cars' (Peel Session)
(JP: 'Because I've got so many excellent import 7 inches in the past couple of weeks, I'm tempted to make the spot between say 12 and 1 (I haven't actually thought this through), "Guitar Storm": that's the kind of trendy title that I should give it, and just play you loads of guitar records, 'cos there've been so many excellent ones. Perhaps I'll do that, perhaps I won't: you'll have to listen tomorrow night to discover which way I go.')
(JP: 'And I've already had one correct entry actually sent in to our In Session Tonight book competition. That came from Scunthorpe: somebody faxed in a correct entry from there, but you've still got two weeks to get yours in, and if you have no idea what it is that I'm talking about, I'll give you loads of details in tomorrow night's programme.')
  • Tebukuro: 'Lost In Music (12")' (Delirium)
(JP: 'I was thinking actually that it was high time, because it fits in with modern thought, that this programme should have a name. I was toying with the idea of "Fat 180" (180 for the duration of the programme, Fat (Phat) you can spell really either way). No? Perhaps not. Back to the drawing board.')

File 2 ends and 3 begins

  • Bum: 'At The Well (7")' (Lucky)
  • (trailer for Paul Weller programme)
  • Alaska: 'Lost In Alaska (Moose Mix) (12")' (Baseroom)' @1
  • (1.30 a.m. news)
  • Otis Mbuta & Matchatcha: 'Le Monde Est Fou (The World Is Mad) (LP-Le Monde Est Fou)' (Afric')
(JP: 'Another twenty minutes or so of that would have done me the world of good.')

File 3 cuts out after 1m 4s of of above track but in full on File 5 and 8

Tracks marked # available on File 4

Tracks marked @ available on File 5

Tracks marked & available on File 7

Track marked § are not yet available.

Thanks to Tim for the handwritten playlist.

File[]

Name
  • 1) CB113 JP 1993-09-03
  • 2) CB114 JP 1993-09-03 Side A
  • 3) CB114 JP 1993-09-03 Side B
  • 4) best of peel vol 63 part 1 (with introductions)
  • 5) John Peel tape no.80 side a
  • 6) 020A-H02018XXXXXX-0100A0.mp3
  • 7) 1993-09-xx Peel Show LE192
  • a) 1993-09-03 Peel Show L478.mp3
  • 8) John Peel 03 Sept 1993.mp3
Length
  • 1) 01:08:05
  • 2) 00:47:17
  • 3) 00:31:33
  • 4) 46:50 (from 27:43) (from 41:46 unique)
  • 5) 46:15 (to 11:42, 20:42-30:20) (5:31-11:42, 25:17-30:20 unique)
  • 6) 02:59:56
  • 7) 1:33:13 (to 44:48) (13:20 -17:33 unique)
  • a) 55:19
  • 8) 1:28:08
Other
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