05 September 1974

Show[]

Name

Top Gear

Station

BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

1974-09-05

Comments

This was kindly supplied by Peel Mailing List user thebarguest, who commented, "I recently acquired this 56 min recording which I think some of you may be interested in. It's good quality FM mono and to my knowledge the only 1974 Peel recording in 'circulation' ^[1] .....There's a weird, brilliant record by Robert Wyatt, featuring Mike Oldfield and Ivor Cutler ! There's some great Irish folk by Na Fili,some blues from Neil Young and Peter Hammill's earnest crooning."
The Peel Sessions (Garner. K., BBC Books, 2007) notes that the PasB for this programme was missing at the time of publication, and that session repeats were 'unknown'.

Sessions[]

Peaches, #1. Recorded 1974-08-29. No known commercial release.
Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers, #3 (rpt). Recorded 1974-07-25. No known commercial release. Drummer Pete Thomas went on to play with Elvis Costello, and Nick Lowe was also a member at one time.
Na Fili, #2 (rpt). Recorded 1974-07-13. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting[]

Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers, 'Streets Of Baltimore' (Peel Session) (last few seconds of this)
Na Fili: 'Slip Jigs And Reel' (Peel Session)
Robert Wyatt: 'Little Red Robin Hood Hit The Road (LP-Rock Bottom)' (Virgin)

(JP: 'I heard that Ivor Cutler has signed with Virgin, and is recording an LP which should be released sometime before Christmas. They didn't ask me to produce it, but, I mean, you know, you learn to ride and live with the disappointments.')

Betty Davis: 'If I'm In Luck, I Might Get Picked Up (LP-Betty Davis)' (Just Sunshine)
JP asks Bridget St. John, who appears to be sitting behind him, to give him the sleeve to this back
Peaches: 'B For Charlie' (Peel Session)

(JP: 'As you may know, in a sense, I'm a bit of a loony, in that I sit down and listen to each and every record that I'm sent through the post, each and every record I buy, time all the tracks, listen to everything on it.')

Mike D'Abo: 'Handbags And Gladrags (LP-Broken Rainbows)' (A&M)
Na Fili: 'Polkas' (Peel Session)
Neil Young: 'Vampire Blues (LP-On The Beach)' (Reprise) (JP: 'His best LP since his second.) ^[2]
Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers: 'Fiddle Diddle' (Peel Session)
Peter Hammill: '(No More) The Sub-Mariner (LP-In Camera)' (Charisma)
Booker T & The MGs: 'Plum Nellie (LP-Soul Dressing)' (Stax)
JP mentions that the next record after the news will be by the Sadistic Mika Band ^[3]
(11 o' clock news: PM Harold Wilson calls a General Election)

File[]

Name

PeelTopGear740905

Length

0:56:33

Other

Many thanks to the Barguest

Available

Archive / Mooo

Footnotes

↑ Subsequently several edited portions of other 1974 shows have come to light.
↑ ...which was After The Gold Rush.
↑ He later claimed that during this period he was not allowed by the BBC to use the word 'sadistic.'

[1] Subsequently several edited portions of other 1974 shows have come to light.

[2] ...which was After The Gold Rush.

[3] He later claimed that during this period he was not allowed by the BBC to use the word 'sadistic.'

[1]

[2]

[3]