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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1983-06-14
Comments
  • The first Chameleons session track was apparently written especially for Peel, with a title that name-checks his old Perfumed Garden show.
  • Manages to find and read one dedication from the previous Sunday's gig at St John's College, Cambridge, having failed to do any the previous evening after leaving his jacket at Peel Acres. Speculates that the people are more likely to be eating strawberries by a riverbank than listening to his show.
  • At the start of the show, additional tracks by Xmal Deutschland, Laughing Clowns, Zerra I also mentioned. File 3 in addition has a track by Papa Wemba between The Best Ambience and the Altered Images session, though there is no obvious gap in the recording on File 1. That said, there is no obvious gap anywhere on that file which only lasts 105 minutes, but includes the start and end of the show.

Sessions[]

  • Chameleons #2 Recorded 8th June 1983 (Was available on The Chameleons 'John Peel Sessions' (Strange Fruit, SFRLP 114) 1990, Now deleted)
  • Altered Images #1 Recorded 7th October 1980, repeat, originally broadcast 14 October 1980

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

Tracklisting[]

  • File 2 begins
  • 10pm news
  • File 1 begins
  • Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman: Kinky Boots (single) Cherry Red reissue (3 end only)
  • Killing Joke: Let's All Go (To The Fire Dances) (single) EG 3
  • Jay Tees: Buck Town Corner (7") Studio One 3
  • Chameleons: Perfumed Garden (session)
  • Catastrophe Bizarre: Ego M (compilation album - A La Honden Blaffen{All Dogs Bark}) Stichting Limbabwe
  • Red London: This Is England (EP - Sten Guns In Sunderland) Razor
  • Sisters Of Mercy: Kiss The Carpet (EP - Reptile House)
  • Delroy Wilson: Where Were You On Our Wedding Day 3
  • Birthday Party: Blast Off (EP) 4AD
  • Chameleons: Don't Fall (session)
  • Daddy Cleanhead and the Chuck Higgins Band: Something Is Going On In My Room (compilation album - Teenage Rock and Roll Party Vol 2) 3
  • Positive Noise: Charm
  • Bibi Den's Tshibayi: The Best Ambience (album - The Best Ambience) 3
  • File 2 cuts out during above track
  • Talking Heads: Making Flippy Floppy (album - Speaking In Tongues)
  • George Nooks: Crucial Corporal () Black Solidarity
  • Chameleons: Second Skin (film) (session)
  • John Wayne & Johnny P: Rain Fall, Sun Shine (7") Hit Bound
  • Altered Images: Beckoning Strings (session) 3
  • Altered Images: Legionnaire (session)
  • Altered Images: Insects (session) 3
  • Altered Images: Dead Pop Stars (session) 3
  • OV Wright: Bachelor's Blues (album - Gone For Good) Charlie 3
  • Chameleons: Nostalgia (session)
  • Winona Carr: Jump Jack Jump (compilation album - Teenage Rock and Roll Party Vol 2) 3
  • end of show
  • midnight news
  • File 1 ends
  • File 3 also includes
  • Papa Wemba / Hector Zazou: Malimba (12") Crammed Discs CRAM 023

File[]

Name
  • 1) 1983-6-14 John Peel BBC Radio 1.mp3 or John Peel (14th June 1983).mp3
  • 2) 1983-06-14 Peel Show.mp3
  • 3) John Peel 14 June 1983 edited.mp3
Length
  • 1) 1:45:41 (to 1:42:47)
  • 2) 1:00:00 (to 1:20 unique)
  • 3) 41:55 (20:51-26:18 unique))
Other
  • 1) Show from Bill from North Wales. Excellent quality. 15 minutes missing from the show due to some old computer program writing to the tape!
  • 2) From the Omega Tapes. Digitised by Weatherman22.
  • 3) Many thanks to Tim.
Available