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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1992-06-05
Comments
  • A cheerful JP plays quite a few records by American bands, including one by 'the one-after-next big thing'.
  • He relates how, during a clearout, he found some interesting items he didn't know he had, including the Undertones' first session, which he paid for them to record (and hopes to rebroadcast), plus a tape of a "legendary" 1968 Captain Beefheart concert from Frank Freeman's Dance Club in Kidderminster.
  • On Sunday morning (7th June), Peel says he will be flying to the Isle of Man for the TT Races.
  • Thanks to Peel Mailing List user Dr. Mango for the correct spelling of one session artist. The Peel Sessions substitutes the 'r' for an 'l': Ken Garner attributes this to an insistent reader of his earlier book, In Session Tonight.

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

Part One begins during first track

Part Two

  • (curious piece of music, with a chorus singing 'John Peel's got nice legs', set to the tune of Elgar's 'Pomp And Circumstance' March No. 1. JP claims to have found it during the clearout referred to above and can offer 'no explanation whatsoever' for it. According to Ken Garner (Peel Sessions, p.77) the jingle was the work of Bill Aitken, along with the "Friday Night Is Boogie Night" one for the Sounds Of The Seventies Friday show.) %3
  • G.L. Crockett: 'It's A Man Down There (7 inch)' (4 Brothers)
  • Big Stick: 'A Threat (the Drag Racing Underground Theme) (album - Drag Racing Underground)' Albertine ALB 5
  • Suncharms: 'Spaceship' (Peel Session)
  • Cool Sticky: 'Train To Soulsville (CD-Explosive Rock Steady)' (Heartbeat)
  • (JP: 'There are times, you know, when I feel as though I ought to be wearing protective clothing to do these programmes for you.')
  • Orb: 'Oobe' (Peel Session)
  • Orb: 'No Fun' (Peel Session)
  • (JP: 'Punk rock, eh? You never really know where you are, do you?')
  • File b ends
  • File c begins
  • Farm: 'Rising Sun (12 inch)' (End Product)
  • Perspex Whiteout: 'Dark Inside Your Heart (CD single - Perspex Whiteout EP)' (Imaginary) %1
  • Serenje Kalindula Band (Wisdom Destroyer Nkandu): Ndkan, Pt. 3

Part Three

  • Drunks With Guns: 'Superstar (7 inch)' (Bag Of Hammers)
  • Morgan Wild Project: 'Submersion (12 inch)' (Buzz)
  • (another found tape-a Marc Bolan trailer for 'Top Gear') %2
  • Sonic Youth: '100% (LP-Dirty)' (Geffen)
  • Sonic Youth: 'Creme Brulee (LP-Dirty)' (Geffen)
  • Dim Stars: 'All My Witches Come True (LP-Dim Stars)' (Paperhouse)
  • Suncharms: 'Magic Carpet' (Peel Session)
  • File c ends
  • (1 a.m. news-Margaret Thatcher becomes a Baroness)
  • File d begins
  • Vertigo: 'Get Out (LP-Ventriloquist)' (Amphetamine Reptile)
  • Shamen: 'L.S.I. (Well Hung Parliament Dub Mix) (12 inch)' (One Little Indian)
  • Blunderbuss: 'Line Drive To The Forehead (7 inch-Push)' (Pop Bus)
  • Culture: 'Forward To Africa (7 inch)' (Cultural Foundation)

Part Four

  • Jesus Lizard: 'Dancing Naked Ladies (7 inch-Wheelchair Epidemic)' (Touch And Go)
  • Spasms: 'Clipflow (12 inch EP-Spasms EP)' (Djax-Up-Beats)
  • (trailer for Oxfam 92 concert)
  • Big Stick: Hoochie Koo Time (album - Drag Racing Underground) Albertine ALB 5
  • Gene Vincent: 'Jumps, Giggles And Shouts'
  • Bongo Iya: 'Maya Lalelle'
  • Pond: 'Young Splendour (7 inch)' (TK) (#27 in that year's Festive Fifty)
  • Verve: 'She's A Superstar (12 inch)' (Hut Recordings)
  • File d ends
  • File e starts
  • Hyper-U: 'Demonic S-Cape (12 inch)' (Basic Beat Recordings)
  • Suncharms: 'Into The Sun' (Peel Session)
  • (JP: 'To end tonight's programme, the contents of a savage pencil sleeve.')
  • Pain Teens: 'The Smell (7 inch-B side of Death Row Eyes)' (Sub Pop)
  • File e ends
  • Tracks marked % also available on File 5

File[]

Name
  • 1-4) 1992-06-05 Peel Show 1992-06-05 Parts 1-4
  • a) 1992-06-05 Peel Show L197a
  • b) 1992-06-05 Peel Show L197b
  • c) 1992-06-05 Peel Show L175
  • d) 1992-06-05 Peel Show L177
  • e) 1992-06-05 Peel Show L269
  • 5) 1992-05-xx-06-xx Peel Show UC065.mp3
Length
  • Part 1 - 00:46:20
  • Part 2 - 00:46:21
  • Part 3 - 00:44:56
  • Part 4 - 00:41:13
  • File a - 26:32
  • File b - 47:50
  • File c - 39:57
  • File d - 46:08
  • File e - 11:28
  • 5) 1:33:38 (37:54-41:47, 46:30-46:40, from 1:32:29)
Other
Available