Start of show: 'Hi, John Peel here, the DJ with the filmstar looks.' Peel announces a competition to win Strange Fruit cassettes of Peel Sessions: the listener is expected to write down the first and last records played in every programme of that week.
John apologises for speaking through his nose: he had a cold over the weekend, with 'lots of phlegm.' Due to this, he spent a lot of the weekend listening to records: the results of which influence the playlist.
Sessions[]
Great Leap Forward, #1. Recorded 1987-05-24. No known commercial release.
Big Flame, #4 (repeat). Recorded 1986-05-04. No known commercial release.
Tracklisting[]
File 1's first track is Neil Young's song 'Cortez The Killer' but is actually the live cover by Built To Spill, not recorded until 2000, and was artificially spliced in at the start of the tape.
File 1 intro to show at 20:27 in file, copied to file 2
File 1 pauses
Neil Young: Cortez The Killer (album - Zuma) Reprise K 54005
File 1 resumes at 20:36 with John announcing the Strange Fruit competition (copied to file 2 which then pauses) following which he back-announces the Neil Young track.
(JP: 'I saw him (Neil Young) at the end of last week. First half was fairly awful, but the second half was really good.')
File 2 resumes with clearly different audio, at intro to next track, sounds like the 48kbps track
(JP: 'It's interesting, actually, how many people, when you're talking to them about what you do, you know, say to you, "Do people ever offer you money for playing records?" I can quite honestly say that, in all the time I've been doing this, which is a jolly long time, 26 years or something like that, nobody's ever offered me any money at all. If I sound disappointed, it's because I'm disappointed, really, I suppose. People say to me occasionally, "Of course, you must be taking backhanders", but it's true, it's never happened.')
Admiral Bailey: 'Big Belly Man (12 inch)' (Super Power) §
(JP: 'This next is for somebody who sent me pictures of The Fall playing in Maidenhead - or, anyway, the person sent them from Maidenhead - and described himself or herself as 'The Eye in the Audience' and it's also for the members of the Ballyclare High Fourth Year Barmy Army. Thanks very much for the long letter. The Fall.')
(JP: 'It often happens that, in the twilight world that I inhabit, I have to phone people up and say 'Excuse me, can I speak to Cutmaster H2S04?' And there'll be a puzzled voice on the other end saying 'Sorry, what was that again?' I say 'Cutmaster H2S04' and they say 'Oh, you mean our Dave'. And here's letter from Finn's mum which I should have got last week, but I only opened at the weekend, so I hope the people concerned are listening. Writing from Upton, Dorset, it says 'Dear John, Would you please play a record for my son's birthday on June 2nd. He's 17. You will know him as Fiz 305 and Tuff 2 of the New Dimension'. Whether he has two aliases, I'm not quite sure, but it goes on to say 'Happy birthday, Finn, from Mum, Dad and brother Wayne, thanking you, Finn's mum. Well, if Finn is listening, or in whatever incarnation he is listening, these are The Boogie Boys.')
Boogie Boys: 'Dealin' With Life (12 inch)' (Capitol) §
Big Flame: 'Sink (Get Out Of The Ghetto Blues Part 1)' (Peel Session) §
Billy Bragg: 'A Change Is Gonna Come (6-track EP)' (free with Wake Up magazine, distributed by Backs/Cartel)
(JP: 'Listening at the weekend to older records, which I don't often get the chance to do, but every once in a while you need to put one on, just to kind of remind yourself of what things were like, you know what I mean, as a barometer by which you can assess the newer pieces. I must confess that, again, nothing that I listened to at the weekend really matched up to this: but it would take some doing.')