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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1981-02-10
Comments
  • (Introduction to show, mood of Peel, interesting comments, etc. If possible, please add mentions of gigs attended, football matches, TV appearances, etc, for use elsewhere on John Peel Wiki.)
  • This 46 minute segment of show comes from John Peel - Bow Wow Wow - 81 one of a select series of Peel compilations by Peel Mailing List user Mark.
  • Additional tracklisting thanks to John Peel Papers. Please see the Talk Page for the reversed image the information was extracted from.

Sessions[]

(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)

Tracklisting[]

  • File 1 (1:25:16 to 1:25:43)
  • Start of programme - Peel disses recent coverage of Liverpool's performance by stating that they are in the League Cup Final, are still in the European Cup, and are still in with a chance in the league. Also on 'File 3
  • File 1 then cuts to 04 May 1981
  • Motorhead / Girlschool: Please Don't Touch (7" EP - St. Valentine's Day Massacre) Bronze BRO 116 3
  • Five Or Six: Another Reason (7") Cherry Red CHERRY 19
  • File 1 from 0:00-46:32
  • Ski Patrol: 'Extinguish' (Peel Session) 2
  • Brian Copsey And The Commotions: 'Boys in Love (7 inch)' (Chrysalis)
  • (JP: 'Play me that twangy guitar and I’m anybodies… I mention all of this Sheena Barmy Army Stuff in the hope that when the John Peel Roadshow goes out and does one of its awful gigs and I put on a Sheena Easton record, and I do fans, everyone goes SHEENA SHEENA like that and they did in Nottingham, which is what they are supposed to do. In Southampton recently they just stood and stared at me as if to say this man is a loony.')
  • U Roy: 'Puppet On A String (LP-Love Is Not A Gamble' (State Line)
  • Big Hair: 'Puppet On A String (7 inch)' (Fresh)
  • (JP: 'Earlier on this evening I was downstairs watching Susan and her Banshees recording a session and on the evidence of what I heard it’s a good one.')
  • Bow Wow Wow: 'Sexy Eiffel Towers (Cassette-Your Cassette Pet)' (EMI)
  • Psychedelic Furs: 'All Of This And Nothing' (Peel Session)
  • (JP: 'Last night after the show I went grooving, you know how it is the bright lights of London are so terribly attractive so I quite often go, you know, swinging after the programme I went down to a place called Heaven underneath the arches to see New Order. Never got to see Joy Division something I regret terribly but New Order were very good although the sound was a little odd and the vocals were almost inaudible.')
  • Ski Patrol: 'Cut' (Peel Session) 2
  • Cut: 'New King (EP-Four Cuts)' New Noise (JP: 'Don’t sound very Norwegian, not that I’m certain what Norwegians should sound like.')
  • Kick Partners: 'Steelworkers (12 inch)' (Revolution)
  • Pylon: 'Driving School (10 inch EP-!!)' (Armageddon)
  • (JP: 'Sounds like a companion record to a home dentistry course – good though – I’m not criticising it. I wouldn’t dare do that in case you send me hostile letters. You wouldn’t think whilst I’m prattling cheerfully on that I have a terrible sore throat.')
  • Transmitters: 'The Beat Goes On (LP-And We Call That Leisure Time)' (Heartbeat)
  • File 1 cuts out, continues with 09 February 1981
  • Psychedelic Furs: On And Again (session)
  • ?
  • Johnny Fortune: Dragster
  • Neonbabies: Nervös (7" EP) Teldec 66.10196-01
  • Pere Ubu: Non-alignment Pact (album - The Modern Dance) Rough Trade ROUGH 22
  • Ski Patrol: Where The Buffalo Roam (session) 2
  • Moondogs: Talking In The Canteen (7") Real ARE 14
  • Umps And Dumps: ? (album - The Moons In A Fit) Topic 12TS416
  • B-Movie: Nowhere Girl (12") Dead Good BIG DEAD 12
  • Psychedelic Furs: Into You Like a Train (session)
  • UK Decay: Unexpected Guest (7") Fresh FRESH 26
  • Laughing Clowns: ?
  • Reactors: World War Four (album - World War Four) Nuclear Waste NW-1

File[]

Name
  • 1) John Peel - Bow Wow Wow - 81
  • 2) KevH Tape 36.mp3
  • 3) Tape 061A: 1980-3 (mixtape)
Length
  • 1) 1:33:03 (first 46:32 is from this show, then the intro from 1:25:16 to 1:25:43)
  • 2) 42:23 (from 26:49) (to 27:31 and from 35:47 unique)
  • 3) 46.08 (33:28-36:59)
Other
Available