08 April 1994

Show

A little bit morbid perhaps, but interesting to hear (again) all the same, the first half of the show on the day that Kurt Cobain's body was found. Peel worries that the mythologising will have already begun when one of the sadder basic aspects is the fact that Cobain had left a wife and daughter behind.
Cracking little tape too. First plays for Pulp's His'N'Hers LP - Joyriders and The Fall's 15 Ways.
Peel reveals that the shows over the last two weekends were pre-recorded, as he had taken a week's family holiday to France: "One of the children got so fed up with never going on holiday she actually sorted it all out herself and booked it all and everything. So we had a week in - we didn't know at the time that it was going to be so, but it was a heavily industrialised valley somewhere north of Marseilles. I found a good record shop in Marseilles and some of the consequences of my shopping there will crop up later in this programme and again in tomorrow afternoon's programme."

AC Acoustics #1. Repeat of session recorded 1993-11-18 and first broadcast 07 January 1994.
Ivor Cutler #20. Repeat of session recorded 1993-11-16 and first broadcast 08 January 1994.

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Autechre: 'Basscadet' (LP 'Incunabula') Warp
(news of Kurt Cobain's death)
Supersuckers: 'I Was Born Without A Spine' (LP 'La Mano Cornuda') Sub Pop
Ivor Cutler: 'Glasgow Dreamer Episode 19' (Peel Session)
Jacob's Mouse: 'Fandango Widewheels' (7" EP) Wiiija
Mudhoney: 'By Her Own Hand' (LP 'The John Peel Sub-Pop Sessions') Strange Fruit
Culture: 'Zion Gate' (LP 'Baldhead Bridge') Shanachie
AC Acoustics: 'Leather Buyer' (Peel Session)
Neuropolitique: 'No Feet On Stage' (LP 'Menage A Trois') Irdial
(news at 10:30)
Pulp: 'Joyriders' (LP 'His 'N' Hers') Island
Violent Onsen Geisha: 'Mr Russ Tamblinman' (LP 'Otis') Endorphin Factory
Ultrahigh: Instigator (v/a album - Modulation & Transformation) Mille Plateaux MP/LP 1 @
Meat Puppets: 'Roof With A Hole' (4 Track promo for LP 'Too High To Die') London

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Mazey Fade: 'Inside My Blush' (7") Domino
Loop Guru: 'Jungle A' (LP 'Duniya (The Intrinsic Passion Of Mysterious Joy)') Nation
Arcwelder: 'Attic' (LP 'Xerxes') Touch/Go
Backbeat Band: 'Bad Boy' (Film Soundtrack 'Backbeat') EMI
(news at 11:30)
Smut: 'Symphony #1' (LP 'Blood, Smut And Tears') Spanish Fly

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AC Acoustics: 'King Dick' (Peel Session)
Down Underground: 'DJ-Re-Do' (12" 'Australian EP') Rabbit City
Jacob's Mouse: 'B12 Marmite' (7" EP') Wiiija
Flugschädel: 'Holz-Puppensubbe' (Untitled) Plattenmeister
Ivor Cutler: 'Sharks/Slut/My Top 20 Words/Billy's Wife' (Peel Session)
The Paragons: 'The Tide Is High'
Unhinged: 'Viscous Circle' (7" 'Resisting The Murder Of Self') Nabate/Flat Earth
2000 & One: 'Sensitive Space' (2xLP 'Global Technological Innovations') New Electronica
Ex-Cathedra: 'Something Coming Down' (LP 'Tartan Material') Damaged Goods
John has to recue the above due to a foreign object on the record....
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci: 'Kevin Ayers' (LP 'Tatay') Ankst
Seefeel: 'Air-Eyes' (EP 'Starethrough') Warp

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and has to do the same with the above, possibly as the foreign object has damaged the turntable
Fall: 'Hey Student' (Single '15 Ways'') Permanent @
Nimon-Toki Lala: 'Non Stop' (LP: 'Ça Déménage Pépito') Jimmy's International
18th Dye: 'Whole Wide World' (LP 'Done') Che
Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet: 'Salvatore' (LP 'Saxhouse') Knitting Factory Works
AC Acoustics: 'Sister Grab Operator' (Peel Session)
Doucen: 'White Sands' (12" 'White Sands') Brute
Bill Black's Combo: 'White Silver Sands' (LP 'The Untouchable Sound Of The Bill Black Combo') Hi
Bad Livers: 'Time And Time Again' (LP 'Horses In The Mines') Quarterstick

Tracks marked @ available on Peel April 1994