Peel says that he listened to between 4 and 5 hundred demo tapes during the week. About 8 were ok, the remainder were "nothing really terrific and nothing really quite extraordinarily bad". In the course of doing that he found a package of records from Vancouver by the band Pointed Sticks. They sounded like a late 70s band, but he wasn't sure for how long the records had been where he found them, nor whether he'd played them before on the show.
In last week's show, Peel had been celebrating the fact that the roadworks on the Bury St Edmunds bypass had come to an end. "I would maintain that it is the most dug up stretch of road in all of Britain", he says. Sadly, this week the road was once again undergoing maintenance: "...contraflows and cones and one side of the road closed entirely for resurfacing. £8m apparently, they've spent on it so far. I suppose they can close a few more wards and do the whole thing all over again next year. Loads of fun."
He had been to see Chapterhouse at the Junction in Cambridge on Thursday 4 April. Fatigue prevented him from staying for the entire set "but the bit I saw seemed pretty neat. How's that for a not a terrifically committed review?"
The show is now complete
Sessions[]
Viv Stanshall #12. Recorded 1991-03-29. No known commercial release.
Datblygu #3. Repeat of session first broadcast 09 February 1991. Available on BBC Peel Sessions (Ankst 027).
Tracklisting[]
File 1 begins at start of show
"Time to gather closer round the old camp fire for another edition of The Padre Speaks. Tonight, - Unwholesomeness."
Datblygu: Nid Chwiwgi Pwdin Gwaed (Not A Blood Pudding) (session)
Thee Stash: (We're) Selling Jeans For The U.S.A (7" - Should I Stay Or Should I Go?) Shakin' Street YEAH-HUP 022 John seems to be under the impression that the track was written by Billy Childish
JP: "Older listeners may recall that there was a band called Capital Letters who had one of our favourite records back in 1978... gave me an excuse to drag it out and play it again."
Trailer for a series of European-themed shows to be broadcast on Radio One the coming week under the banner 'One for Europe'. A sure highlight is the Steve Wright show which is to be broadcast live from Brussels.
JP: "Do you know, for years I asked if I could do programmes from Europe and they told me not to be so stupid!"
↑Peel refers to Dona Mobeti as from the Clan Langa Langa, and the LP cover appends his name with "Du Clan Langa Langa". As Discogs states, this was an umbrella term for artists associated with Zaiko Langa Langa.