Three files available: one from the 400 Box (first hour only), one from AH in excellent quality sound of the complete show and from John Leonhard's Dad.
Session guests Float Up CP featured the vocal talent of Neneh Cherry, who went on enjoy solo success later in the decade. JP later plays an older single by another of her aggregations, Rip Rig And Panic.
Peel says that on a recent visit to Holland, he heard a version of Elmore James 'Stranger Blues' playing in a record shop. It sounded like the Gun Club, but he was too embarrassed to go up and ask the person behind the counter about it, since he may be met by the rejoinder, "You played it on your programme last night" (which he claims actually happened). He asks the listeners to help him identify the artist. (It turned out to the version of the song by the Nomads, played 02 January 1985.)
The Lime Spiders 7" is on loan. JP - "The people who loaned me that record may have some trouble in getting it back I suspect."
Promises to buy some friends he may have been rude to ("in my Pig-less days") a meal after his gig in Birmingham that Friday.
Peel mentions the 'fun' charts that were printed in the current issue of Sounds, one of which was a motorway chart - "I'm rather disappointed to see that there's no place for my favourite in the top ten, my favourite being the M11. I know it's a slightly bourgeois motorway, particularly at its northern extremes, you don't see much transport on there. But at the same time it's a sincere motorway and I think it should be in there."
Sessions
Triffids, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1984-11-06, first broadcast 13 November 1984. No known commercial release.
Float Up CP, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1984-09-19, first broadcast 26 September 1984. No known commercial release.
Tracklisting
(JP: 'Evening again fun seekers. Tonight's big match, the score was Liverpool 3 Coventry 1 all four goals scored by Liverpool - Wark two and Rush for Liverpool and Hansen own goal for Coventry. The sessions tonight? The Triffids, a repeat of an excellent, indeed a classic session from them, if you missed it the first time round you missed a treat as I'm rather too fond of saying. Also a repeat of our old session from Float Up CP, Janice was bragging about a new one she's got tomorrow night. Not as good as ours I bet.')
Gun Club: Preaching The Blues (LP - Sex Beat 81) Lolita
Nat Cole Trio: Honeysuckle Rose (LP - Trio Days) Affinity
(JP: 'After the last time that this Triffids session went out, I was so impressed that I travelled out to Romford to the Res to see the band live and would like to see them live again too before they go back to Australia. Perhaps you'll understand why after you've heard this.')
(JP: 'I wish I knew more about African music, really, so that I could say things like, "Well, that's a fine example of Magonki Weewee music from the hamlets around Kinshasa". In fact, it may well be so, but I doubt it.')
(JP: The Festive Fifty this year is being compiled by somebody else, Judy, to whom my thanks, because it takes up so much of my time and most of my evenings during November and December are ruined because I'm sitting there with a great pile of cards and envelopes, putting the chart together, so she's doing it this year, for which, as I say, I'm extremely grateful. If this isn't in it, I shall be most cross.')[2]
