11 June 1979

Show

Name

• John Peel Show

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1979-06-11

Comments

• This show is a classic for "technical issues" - two tracks played at the wrong speed and one aborted completely as the vinyl is so warped! Also describes reading a listener's letter who is incensed by the fact that Peel called Rush "boring". Wayne County is mis-typed on the running order as "Wayne Country" so Peel commends him on achiveing nationhood (amongst the "other changes" he is going through!).
• After playing the Gang Of Four track, Peel speculates that it might be 'chartbound...well, one can dream'. Ironically, it sold so well that they were invited to appear on Top Of The Pops, but stormed off after being asked to sing the word 'packets' instead of 'rubbers'. This led to a BBC ban and them being eventually dropped by EMI, who concentrated their sales efforts on a new act called Duran Duran instead.
• Before playing the Barbara Cartland track he says he and Walters thought it would do listeners good to here something sincere. For more on the album this song comes from, see here.

Sessions

• The Undertones, 3rd session (recorded 1979-05-07). Commercially released on Listening In (Sanctuary SANCD179). The missing song is 'Nine Times Out Of Ten'.

Tracklisting

• Sinceros: Take Me To Your Leader (7 inch)
• Fashion: Waste Life (7 inch) Fashion Music
• David Bowie: African Night Flight (LP-Lodger) RCA
• Dave Edmunds: Girls Talk (LP-Repeat When Necessary) Swan Song
• Wire: A Question Of Degree (7 inch) Harvest
• Undertones: The Way Girls Talk (Peel session)
• Gene Vincent: Jumps Giggles & Shouts (LP-Gene Vincent's Greatest Volume 2)
• Hollywood Brats: Then He Kissed Me (forthcoming LP) Cherry Red
• Steel Pulse: Unseen Guest (LP-Tribute To The Martyrs) Mango Records (incomplete)
• Siouxsie & The Banshees: Love In A Void (7 inch) Polydor
• Wayne County & The Electric Chairs: Midnite Pal (LP-Things Your Mother Never Told You) Safari
• Gang Of Four: At Home He's A Tourist (7 inch) EMI
• B-52's: There's A Moon In The Sky (LP-The B52s) Island
• Bunny Wailer: Free Jah Children (Solomonic) (aborted due to warped record!)
• Undertones: Whizz Kids (Peel session)
• Patrik Fitzgerald: My Secret Life (LP-Grubby Stories) Polydor
• Barbara Cartland: Desert Song (LP - Barbara Cartland's Album of Love Songs) State
• Vice Creams: Danger Love (7 inch) Zig Zag
• Semaphore: Actors All' (Semaphore) (plays at wrong speed)
• Altar Nomen Unlimited: Facade (Object)
• NW10: One Time Two Time Girl (EP-Takeaways) Low Brow
• B-52s: 60 60 842 (LP-The B-52s) Island
• James White & The Blacks: White Savages (LP-Off White) Zee
• Prats: Bored (EP-Earcom) Fast (plays at wrong speed)
• Undertones: Top Twenty (Peel Session)
• Steel Pulse: Tribute To The Martyrs (LP-Tribute To The Martyrs) Mango Records

File

Name

• 1979-06-11 John Peel Radio 1 (incomplete).flac

Length

• 01:33:25

Other

• T093 of the 400 Box

• Sound quality is poor for the first 30 seconds or so and then picks up considerably. This was a hard tape to rip as it's a C120 and the spools were quite stiff. Gently squeezing the tape and performing multiple fast-forward and rewinds seemed to do the trick. The little felt pad that sits under the tape is also missing so I guess that didn't help!

• The first 29 minutes seem to have been taped over with the 12-06-79 show, so I assume that portion of the show is lost forever. I left the snippet of news on at the end after the pips for those who like that kind of thing!

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