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12 October 1982

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1982-10-12
Comments
  • After the Gymslips record, JP comments, "One of the few areas of superstition I allow myself is, I always make sure that the last record in the programme before I drive off home has got a fairly innocuous title. You know, because you always read in the papers if somebody gets slain, they'll say 'and the last record he played on the programme...' [...] So if any of you are in bands and you're thinking of making a song called, 'killed in a car crash in the small hours of the morning on the Colchester bypass' forget it, because it won't get played on this programme!"
  • After the Sisters of Mercy record, JP reads a letter from Alan McGee, later to become famous as the head of Creation Records and "discoverer" of Oasis.
  • The Robert Wyatt track is his version of the Andy Razaf/Eubie Blake song "Memories of You", published in 1930, recorded in that year by both Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and a "standard" tune popular with crooners and jazz musicians alike.
  • Tracklisting at John Peel Papers

Sessions[]

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

Tracklisting[]

  • Pioneers: Catch The Beat
  • Nightingales: It Lives Again! (session)
  • OK Jive: Take It Easy (LP - Life at the Blue Chonjo Sky Day & Night Club) Frenzy
  • Papa Keeble alias Nicodemus Junior: Styles (12") Carousel
  • Animal Magic: Honesty (session)
  • Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Little Demon (LP - Frenzy) Edsel
  • Sisters Of Mercy: Floorshow (single) Merciful Release
  • Icicle Works: Nirvana (single) Troll Kitchen
  • Nightingales: Joking Apart (session)
  • Black Uhuru & Prince Jammy: Bad Girl's Dub (LP - Uhuru In Dub) CSA Records
  • Blancmange: Feel Me (LP - Happy Families)
  • Animal Magic: Love Subversion (session)
  • Ray Abrams & his Sextet: Tammy's Blues
  • You've Got Foetus On Your Breath: Dying With My Boots On (LP - Ache)
  • Gymslips: 48 Crash (single)
  • Killing Joke: Birds Of A Feather (single)
  • Brilliant: That's What Good Friends Are For (single) Limelight
  • Jackie Wilson: A Woman, A Lover, A Friend
  • Nightingales: OK Chorale / The Crunch (session)
  • Deigo: Cry Tough (12") Kensal Rise Records
  • Pictures In A Dark Room: Animals In Music Spiders In Piano (single) Zone To Zone
  • Robert Wyatt: Memories Of You (b-side 'Shipbuilding' 7") Rough Trade
  • Icarus: Talking Words (LP - State Of Mind) Russian Roulette
  • Stick Men: Insatiable
  • Animal Magic: Slim Jim From The Boneyard (session)
  • Nightingales: Blood For Dirt (session)
  • One Million Fuzztone Guitars: Heaven (single) Monsters In Orbit
  • Animal Magic: Bus To Bulawayo (session)
  • Orchestre Jazira: Dede Vi (b-side 'Love' 12") Earthworks

File[]

Name
  • (3) 1982-10-12 John Peel Radio 1.mp3
Length
  • 62:15
  • 62:29
  • 02:04:29 (to 01:57:47)
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