16 May 1977

Show[]

Name

John Peel Show

Station

BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

1977-05-16

Comments

Start of show: "Well, that's one in the bag and two to go and I've got a ticket for Rome, although I must admit I haven't yet got a ticket for Wembley, but I'm working on that. On tonight's programme, a new session from the Damned."
File 2 is a short file containing just the Damned session and Peel links. Ken Garner's The Peel Sessions (p.218) also lists plays for the Ramones' 'Sheena Is A Punk Rocker' and the Sex Pistols' 'God Save The Queen' (an extremely brief snatch of which can be heard between the third and fourth tracks below).

Sessions[]

Damned,#2. Recorded 1977-05-10. Available on Sessions Of The Damned (Strange Fruit).
Heron, #2 (rpt). Recorded 1977-04-05. No known commercial release. Listed in The Peel Sessions under 'Mike Heron's Reputation.' ^[1]

Tracklisting[]

Damned: 'Stretcher Case Baby' (Peel Session) 1

(JP: 'Kind of you to point it out, I thought.')

Damned: 'Sick Of Being Sick' (Peel Session) 1

(JP: 'Sensitive bunch of boys.')

Slim & Slam: African Jive @
Heron: Do It Yourself (session) @
J.J. Cale: After Midnight @
Sam McNeil: Earl Blue @
Can: Call Me (album - Saw Delight) Virgin V 2079 @
Damned: 'Feel The Pain' (Peel Session) 1 @

(JP: 'The Damned wished to pay me a well-deserved tribute.')

(Captain Sensible: 'Thank you very much John, you old sod, and I'd like to say thank you to everyone who bought our last LP and made us stinking rich so we can earn £12 a week instead of eleven.') 1

Poco: Downfall (album - Indian Summer) ABC AB-989 @
Poco: Living In The Band (album - Indian Summer) ABC AB-989 @
File 2 cuts in during third Poco track
Poco: Stay (Night Until Noon) (album - Indian Summer) ABC AB-989 @ (% part)
Heron: Are You Going To Hear The Music (session) @ %
Sex Pistols: God Save The Queen $
File 2 cuts out
Jeff Beck & Jan Hammer Group: Scatterbrain (album - Live) Epic PE 34433 $
Damned: 'Fan Club' (Peel Session) 1 $
Tracks marked @ tracklisted on tape of File 3 and % available on File 3
Tracks marked $ tracklisted on PM008

File[]

Name

1) John Peel 1977.05.16 The Damned
2) John Peel various including 03 Oct 1977.mp3
3) J P PM007.mp3

Length

1) 11:24
2) 59:28 (to 12:09)
3) 1:30:27 (from 1:24:24)

Other

1) Many thanks to Jim.
2) Many thanks to the original taper, and to Tim for acquisition and digitisation. John Peel Various 1977
3) Created from PM007 of the PM Tapes digitised by Weatherman22. Many thanks to Peter Mitchell for making the recordings.

Available

1) Mediafire
2) Mooo
3) Mooo

Footnotes

↑ Indeed this Heron was led by Mike Heron, formerly of the Incredible String Band. They are not to be confused with the English folk-rock band Heron, whose two albums for Pye's "underground" label Dawn Records in 1970 and 1971 got some attention from Peel, but were largely ignored until they were discovered by psychedelic folk enthusiasts in the twenty-first century. The folk-rock Heron broke up in the early 1970s, which may have prompted Mike Heron to use the name for his own band, which played in a far rockier style than either the ISB or the earlier Heron, but had no commercial success and soon split up.

[1] Indeed this Heron was led by Mike Heron, formerly of the Incredible String Band. They are not to be confused with the English folk-rock band Heron, whose two albums for Pye's "underground" label Dawn Records in 1970 and 1971 got some attention from Peel, but were largely ignored until they were discovered by psychedelic folk enthusiasts in the twenty-first century. The folk-rock Heron broke up in the early 1970s, which may have prompted Mike Heron to use the name for his own band, which played in a far rockier style than either the ISB or the earlier Heron, but had no commercial success and soon split up.

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