04 October 1979

Show

Name

• John Peel Show

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1979-10-04

Comments

• Three tracks in the show from Avon Calling: The Bristol Compilation on Heartbeat Records.
• The Vitus Dance session track 'Disgusting' namechecks several Radio One DJs and media personalities, amongst them John Walters and Peel himself.
• Peel says that he's playing Talking Heads "in case the Undertones are listening, because they now seem to be saying that Talking Heads are their favourite band."

Sessions

• Vitus Dance Only session, recorded 1979-09-25. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting

• Slits: I Heard It Through The Grapevine (written on tracklist but missing from tape)
• Vitus Dance: Down At The Park (Peel session) @
• XTC: Complicated Game (LP - Drums And Wires) Virgin
• Rory Gallagher: Off The Handle (LP - Top Priority) Chrysalis

JP: "No disrespect intended of course, Rory, but whilst that was going on we here in the studio had a most absorbing discussion about dandruff and its possible cure."

JP: "These are the Ruts... listen to this carefully and tell me if you don't at times think that they sound like Thin Lizzy. You'll probably say that's nonsense but I think they do on occasion."

• Ruts: S.U.S. (LP - The Crack) Virgin
• Capital Letters: Run Run Run (LP - Headline News) Greensleeves
• B-52's: 6060-842 (7") Island

JP: "Whenever American girls used to give me their phone numbers in the days when I lived in the States, they always turned out to be phone numbers of dial-a-prayer organisations and they'd start up with (adopts American accent) 'you have a friend in the Lord Jesus'. Terribly disconcerting if you're hoping for a date."

• Pere Ubu: A Small Dark Cloud That Cried (LP - New Picnic Time) Chrysalis
• Vitus Dance: Inter City Living (Peel session) @
• Essential Bop: Chronicle (Various LP - Avon Calling: The Bristol Compilation) Heartbeat
• Directors: What You've Got (Various LP - Avon Calling: The Bristol Compilation) Heartbeat
• Various Artists: Own Up (Various LP - Avon Calling: The Bristol Compilation) Heartbeat
• Siouxsie & The Banshees: Regal Zone (LP - Join Hands) Polydor
• Punishment Of Luxury: Puppet Life (LP - Laughing Academy) United Artists
• Bob Marley & The Wailers: Zimbabwe (LP - Survival) Tuff Gong/Island
• Atoms: Max Bygraves Killed My Mother (7" - Swingalongamuck) Rinka
• Peter Hammill: Mirror Images (LP - pH7) Charisma (cut in middle where tape flips)

JP: "How embarrassing it is that everytime I try to say anything to justify my reputation as an authority I make an appalling mess of it - which brings us to a singularly apt title from Vitus Dance."

• Vitus Dance: I'm In Control (I Think) (Peel session) @
• Blondie: The Hardest Part (LP - Eat To The Beat) Chrysalis
• Gang Of Four: 5:45 (LP - Entertainment!) EMI
• Gang Of Four: Anthrax (LP - Entertainment!) EMI
• Pee Wee Crayton: Texas Hop
• Essential Logic: Quality Crayon Wax OK (LP - Beat Rhythm News) Rough Trade
• Vitus Dance: Disgusting (Peel session) @

JP: "Walters and myself were trying to think of a song that could be described as disgusting. In the absence of any tunes about Walters' bodily orifices we settled for babies in jars."

• John Ellis: Babies In Jars (7") Rat Race
• Dregs: The Dregs Of Humanity (7" - The Dregs EP) Disturbing
• Crooks: Modern Boys (7") Blueprint
• N***** Kojak: Nice Up Jamaica (7") N***** Kojak
• Talking Heads: Air (LP - Fear Of Music) Sire
• Penetration: On Reflection (LP - Coming Up For Air) Virgin
• Vitus Dance: Problem Parade (Peel session) @
• Noble "Thin Man" Watts: The Creep (LP - Blast Off!) Flyright

(end of show / midnight news read by Vivien Stuart)

• Tracks marked @ also available on File 4

File

Name

• 1) 1979-10-04 John Peel Radio 1.mp3
• 2) 1979-10-04 Peel Show JS35

Length

• 1) 01:57:30
• 2) 17:32

Other

• 1) T158 of the 400 Box. Complete show apart from the first track is missing and a short gap where tape flips happen.
• 2) Many thanks to Jimmy. Excellent FM stereo recording. Created from JS35 of JS Tapes, digitised by Weatherman22.

Available

• 1) Mooo
• 2) Mooo

Footnotes