12 August 1976

Show

Name

• John Peel Show

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1976-08-12

Comments

• (Introduction to show, mood of Peel, interesting comments, etc. If possible, please add mentions of gigs attended, football matches, TV appearances, stories of past/current activities, etc, for use elsewhere on John Peel Wiki.)
• This was the fourth in a record retrospective that highlighted rock groups on the eve of punk, and features Fairport Convention.

Sessions

• None

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

Tracklisting

• Start of show
• "Well hello again. This is the fourth of ten programmes in which we inspect fairly casually the work of ten important British groups, past and present, including individual key members of those groups. Tomorrow night we're going to take a look at The Rolling Stones and next week it'll be the turn of Cream, the Softs, The Faces, The Yardbirds and The Beatles. But tonight though, it's your Fairport."
• Fairport Convention: Meet On The Ledge (7") Island WIP 6047
• "Perhaps the Fairport's best known number, that's Meet On The Ledge, a single taken from their 1969 LP What We Do On Our Holidays, and written by Richard Thompson. And in fact that was the Fairport's second album, and from the first LP another song that was written by Richard Thompson, and Ashley Hutchings ..."
• Fairport Convention: It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft (album - It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft) Polydor 583 035
• "Well Richard Thompson was a notable guitarist even in those days. ... and on the LP, Judy Dyble of course did a lot of the vocals, and she was replaced for What We Did On Our Holidays by Sandy Denny."
• Fairport Convention: Fotheringay (album - What We Did On Our Holidays) Island ILPS 9092
• "Not a bad name for a band, eh Sandy .... and at the same time as the LP was released, Ian Matthews, formerly MacDonald, left the band and is even now recording elegant LPs fo a fairly rustic nature in America. Prior to that, he led Mathhews Southrn Comfort, whose were best known for this."
• Matthews' Southern Comfort: Woodstock (7") UNI UNS 526
• "Matthews' Southern Comfort with their cover of Joni Mitchell's Woodstock and I was rather surprised to see from Rockfile 2 that that got to number 1 in the autumn of 1970. And I suppose most people, and certainly I would regard the golden period of Fairport Convention as being the period which embraced the LPs Holidays Unhalfbricking and Liege & Leaf, and from the middle of those, Unhalfbricking this a personal favourite,
• Fairport Convention: (album - Unhalfbricking) Island ILPS 9102

File

Name

• a) Peel ---08-76 Fairport Convention.zip

Length

• a) 07:13,

Other

• a) Three separate wma files in a zip folder. Many thanks to Peel Mailing List member klacktoveedesteen's mate's parents.

Available

• a) See Peel Mailing List.