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in: 2004, Peel shows, Available online, Competitions

14 September 2004

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 2004-09-14
Comments
  • There is a competition in the show to win tickets to attend the Maida Vale sets by Little Killers and the Hunches on Wednesday 22 September 2004. Sheikh Ahmed is one of the winners.
  • The Flying Dutchman track comes from an LP issued in 2001 that Peel found amongst the boxes of unheard records at Peel Acres over the weekend.
  • In Peel's opinion, the Prosthetic (C)(u)(n)(t) track features "one of the the finest intros to any record that I've played you this year."
  • John mentions in passing that he's been trying to find a copy of the Status Quo single "Whatever You Want" on 7", "so I can play it at gigs... it's impossible to find. Infuriating." [1]
  • The record by Kentucky AFC had been sent to John by Huw Stephens, then presenter of 'The Session In Wales' radio programme.
  • After playing the Gene Vincent track, Peel remarks that by a coincidence he happens to have a new compilation album with him from Ace Records that features the original version of the song Vincent covered. He decides to play it next.
  • The track by PSP was selected by Archie Ravenscroft, who had reportedly crawled over to the boxes of unheard records at Peel Acres and picked it out.

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Tracklisting[]

JP: "And for those of you unfamiliar with Eko, it's a linoleum-like product made in Hungary. No, actually I've got no idea at all what it is (laughs)."
JP: "I've been working very hard on my autobiography in recent weeks and I'm now up to - I've got it written on the back of my hand - 30,935 words, which is almost a third of the way to the end of the book, really. I can't tell at this stage whether it's going to be any good or not, but I've been doing a lot of name-dropping and there's a lot of filth in there as well, which cos obviously is what sells. The point I'd reached at the end of today's writing was a reference to a Gene Vincent song with one of the silliest titles that any record recorded by anybody had: specifically 'B-I-Bickey-Bi, Bo-Bo-Boo'. Louise the producer was quite interested to hear that and I'm always happy to please her. So..."

File[]

Name
  • John Peel 2004-09-14.mp3
  • John_Peel_20040914
Length
  • 1:57:34
  • 1:58:45
Other
Available
Footnotes
  1. ↑ A top 5 hit in the UK for the band in October 1979, so not exactly a rare record. A few weeks later, on 28 September 2004, Peel played the song after being sent a copy of the single by a listener as a late birthday present.
  2. ↑ Track features Robert Wyatt on cornet.
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