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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1994-03-12
Comments
  • Files a-e are incomplete. Around two hours 15 minutes of a two and a half hour show are available between those files. Recording begins with the end of the preceding show by Andy Kershaw. Playlist Archive.
  • About 40 minutes into part 1 JP says that one of his remaining ambitions is to get all of The Fall sessions out as a box set. This did not happen during his lifetime, although it has done since.
  • According to the announcement by Peel, the line-up for Ultramarine's second session included the legendary Jimmy Hastings guesting on sax and flute, who had appeared on many Canterbury scene bands' albums. (He was the brother of Caravan's Pye Hastings.)
  • The lyric line "I don't want to be a rusty suit of armour" appears in a track by Ultimate Spinach, one of the Boston bands promoted (unsuccessfully) by US record companies in 1968 as rivals to the San Francisco groups of the time. Lead singer Ian Bruce-Douglas is probably the only artist played by Peel who served time (in his later career) as a mercenary[1].
  • Two other oddities: "Santa Claus Goes Modern", and the second track Peel plays from Harvey Sid Fisher's "Astrology Songs" LP
  • JP complains about Ken Garner’s ‘wretched’ book and people using it to catch him out. He had claimed (incorrectly) the previous week that Uzeda would be the first Italian band to record a session for the programme and a number of people had written in to correct him. (Isector)

Sessions[]

  • Ultramarine #2 First broadcast. Recorded 01 February 1994. No known commercial release.
  • Submarine #2 First broadcast. Recorded 01 March 1994. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting[]

(4.30pm Radio 1 news)

JP: Some strange football scores coming in: Newcastle 7 Swindon 1, none of them scored by Cole though.

(5.30pm Radio 1 news)

(6:30pm Radio 1 news)

File[]

Name
  • a) Peel 1994-03-12a.mp3
  • b) Peel 1994-03-12a.mp3
  • c) Peel Show 1994-03-12 (incomplete)
  • d) J P C24.mp3
  • e) John Peel 12 March 1994.mp3
  • f) 020A-H02931XXXXXX-0100A0.mp3
  • g) 1994-02-xx-03-xx Peel Show UC083.mp3
  • h) 1994-03-xx-04-xx Peel Show UC084.mp3
Length
  • a) 0:45:59 (from 6:09)
  • b) 0.45:08
  • c) 02:17:25 (from 6:09) (originally 46:29 before being joined to a,b)
  • d) 1:29:34 (1:03:04-1:07:18)
  • e) 1:34:46
  • f) 2:28:47
  • g) 1:32:23 (from 1:31:38)
  • h) 1:33:11 (9:34-31:22) (from 30:59 unique)
Other
  • (a) Sat 4.30-5.15pm, incl Kershaw's last track & 4.30pm news
  • (b) Sat 5.15-6pm
  • (c) Sat 6.00-6.45pm, thanks to Isector
  • Tapes (a) & (b) C90(?) recorded on Aiwa deck model forgotten / playback on TEAC W6000R with Dolby B & pitch control at +5% / Apple Mac Book / Audio Hijack Pro v2.8.3 / 320 kbps stereo mp3 CBR / EQ settings: 2 khz +4%, 4 khz + 5%, 8 khz +5%, 16 khz +3%
  • Tape (c) Sony FXI90 recorded on a forgotten model deck. Playback on a Yamaha KX-393 with Dolby B / NAD PP3 pre amp / HP Pavilion / Audacity. New segment combined with above recordings to form one continuous file by SIG.
  • d,e) Many thanks to Tim for digitisation
  • f) Recordings from the British Library
  • g) Created from UC83 of the UC Tapes, digitised by Weatherman22. UC Tape 83 February March 1994
  • h) Created from UC84 of the UC Tapes, digitised by Weatherman22. UC Tape 84 March April 1994
Available