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17 April 1979

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1979-04-17
Comments
  • (400 Box files) Possibly a contender for the lowest sound quality of a Peel show yet, sounds like a tinny transistor radio wandering around the sound stage, which does not do the reggae tracks any favours. Also, it could do with speeding up by at least 3%. Yet it is still a very interesting listen, with some sparky fresh tunes by the likes of 'Fatal' Microbes. It is left to one's imagination what this show might have sounded like blasting out of a top quality late 70s hifi or some beefy headphones under the covers...
  • (Hinton Box file) A distinct improvement in SQ over the former, in rather hissy but more than bearable stereo. However, the pause button is heavily in evidence. Tracks marked §.
  • (Jimmy file) Very good FM stereo. Tracks marked @

Sessions[]

  • Patrik Fitzgerald, #3. Recorded 1979-04-10. No known commercial release.
  • Vipers only session recorded 27th February 1979, repeat, first broadcast 13 March 1979. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting[]

(JP - 'And I know there are one or two people judging from the letters which that I get that there are one or two people as I say that don't care for the Undertones. This is to me - I can't imagine why that should be, it is a strange fancy but nevertheless there are such peaople. they might be saying to themselves - "well 44 minutes into the programme and Peel hasn't played Jimmy Jimmy yet, perhaps tonight we aren't going to get it." Well, no such luck ')
(JP: 'Patrik Fitzgerald, who brings to piano playing much of the finesse and elegance that Alexandria Mary Anfield (15 months) brings to wetting the floor....')

File[]

Name
  • a) 075-790417a.mp3
  • b) 075-790417b.mp3
  • c) BH012 JP 1979-04-17 Side A
  • d) 1979-04-17 Peel Show JS27.mp3
  • e) John Peel MixTape 06 various April 1979.mp3
  • f) John Peel MixTape 07 various April 1979.mp3
Length
  • a) 39:39
  • b) 41:00
  • c) 46:34 (to 30:27) (from 26:16 unique)
  • d) 10:22 (from 2:47 unique)
  • e) 1:31:37 (from 1:05:44) (from 1:27:07 unique)
  • f) 1:31:53 (to 3:18)
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