13 June 1983

Show

Peel was knocked off his bike by a car the previous week and suffered some head injuries.
Show start: “Hello, pals, I managed to make it through the weekend. One or two ugly pillow cases, but here I am.”
Plays "The Man Who's Head Expanded" by The Fall as a brilliantly appropriate opening track.
Charlie Nicholas chose to sign for Arsenal instead of Liverpool. "I think it is him who should have had his head examined"
Three tracks from the new Altered Images album. First session from 1980 will be repeated the following night.
Says that if he won the football pools and didn’t have to work to support himself, what he would really like to do is devote the rest of his life to studying something with no absolutely practical application whatsoever, such as English Literature: “People waste a great deal of time learning things that are sort of useful.”
Has received a list of bands with silly names from a listener. These include Bouncing Dentists; King Cleary & His Savage Mooses; Ow, My Hair's On Fire, Are You Bothered?; Apprehensive Coastguards. Says if he had limitless funds he would also like to establish a record company to record bands that had good names. Recalls contacting Rancid Cyril & His Mighty Balloon in the days of Dandelion to make a record, but Peel was turned down.
Mentions that a painting of his mother is being exhibited at the Royal Academy. Suggests this may be a first for a Radio One DJ.

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

Fall: The Man Whose Head Expanded (single) Rough Trade
Altered Images: Another Lost Look (LP – Bite) Epic
Naturalites Jah Holy Hills (session)
Slapp Happy: Everybody’s Slimmin’ (Even Men And Women) (single) Half-Cat
Brigandage: Let It Rot (session)
Lightning Slim: Somebody Knockin’
Mark Stewart & The Mafia: None Dare Call It Conspiracy (LP – Learning To Cope With Cowardice) On-U Sounds
Icicle Works: Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream) (single) Situation Two
Bamboo Fringe: Dorian Gray (single) Probe Plus
Naturalites: Suffer (session)
Attak: Zombies (LP – Zombies) No Future PUNK 6
Jane: Fine Day (single) Cherry Red
Jah Wobble: Invaders Of The Heart (12” single) Lago
Brigandage: Hope (session)
Michigan & Smiley: Sugar Daddy (LP – Sugar Daddy) RAS
Altered Images: Now That You’re Here (LP – Bite) Epic
Naturalites: Jah Love That (session)
Joy Division: Warsaw (EP – Ideal For Living) Factory
Toxoplasma: 1981 ([LP - Toxoplasma) Aggressive Rockproduktionen
King Sunny Ade & His African Beats: Maajo (LP - Synchro System) Island
Brigandage: Heresy (session)
Set The Tone: All Tied Up (12” single) Island
Tommy Field: Hey, Joyce, You’re My Choice (single)
Blitz: Acolyte (LP – Second Empire Justice) Future
Naturalites: I Want Your Love (session)
Sonic Youth: Confusion Is Next (LP – Confusion Is Sex) Neutral
Brigandage: Fragile (session)
Magazine: Model Worker (LP - Play) Virgin
Altered Images: Stand So Quiet (LP – Bite) Epic