Repeat of first sessions from five 2-Tone related artists.
Full show now available.
Peel says that at the end of the previous week he had a great night seeing The Toy Dolls at The Bell in Horden, near Sunderland.[1]
John has spent a certain amount of the weekend catching up on fanzines: 'Sometimes It's Worth Living' from Bristol, 'Feast In The Garden' from Humberside, 'NMX' from Sheffield #17, 'Sanity Is Boring' from Ayr, 'Wool City Rocker' from Bradford, 'Vox' from Dublin, 'The Face', issue 2, 'Ten Commandments' from Glasgow. Though some of these claim not to be fanzines.
Sessions[]
Beat: session #1 (repeat). Recorded 1979-10-24. First Broadcast 05 November 1979. No known commercial release.
Bodysnatchers: session #1 (repeat). Recorded 1980-04-08. First Broadcast 14 April 1980. No known commercial release.
Tracklisting[]
JP: "Good evening to you, rampsmen[2] and blowers[3] . You'll have to look that up, that's for sure. On tonight's program, if you care for the 2 Tone bands, well past and present that is, you're in for a bit of a treat..."
JP: "I was driving in this evening listening to a Scientific programme on Radio 4 ... and they were trailing a programme later in the week where they were saying that Scientists have discovered that certain individuals can function without brains and you can get living proof of this tomorrow morning between 7 and 9. Just kidding Dave of course."
JP: "That was The Specials 'Gangsters'. The record of it - one of those records that really changes your life, I mean it actually does, rather like I suppose The Damned's first single, where you wake up the next day and nothing's ever really quite the same again. It that too much to say that? I actually believe that, and when I've stopped feeling like that about records, I suppose it's time to stop doing these programmes - cries of 'YES' from all over the country!"
John reads last verse of John Peel by 'John' Woodcock Graves a listener has sent in. JP: "I'm not entirely certain this is suitable for a family audience, I'll read it to you - Then here's to John Peel, With my heart and soul. Come fill, fill to him, A brimming bowl. For we'll follow John Peel, Thro fair or thro foul. While we're waked by his horn, In the morning."[4]
JP: "... I spent a lot of time over the weekend listening to new records, great wealth of new LPs, most of them quite frightful... so much so that I put this on to clear my head. These are The Fall, live, Fiery Jack."
JP: "Young Marble Giants from cuddly old Cardiff, or somewhere like that and that's... don't write to me and say 'there is nowhere like Cardiff', I don't care."
[closing music] Grinderswitch:Pickin' the Blues (Macon Tracks) Capricorn Records
JP: "On tomorrow nights show Wah Heat and The Passions. Tonight you heard, well you know what you heard, you don't really need to be told do you? Don't forget I shall be playing the new single from The Slits and both sides of the forthcoming single from Joy Division too. Goodnight. I said goodnight! Don't hang about."