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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1980-02-18
Comments
  • 95 minutes of the show available in excellent quality from the Derby Box
  • Starts the show with two singles from the night's session artists, both on People Unite
  • Peel’s #1 choice in his self-selected 1977 Festive Fifty is dug out for a spin
  • Appears to be first play of the debut Wah! Heat single. Peel comments that listeners may have read about them in the music press

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

  • File 5 begins with Radio 2 announcer then the time signal, which leads straight into the first track.
  • The first 13 seconds of File 2 contain the time signal followed by the opening notes of the first track, before pausing.
  • File 1 cuts in during the following (first track of the show)
  • Ruts: In A Rut (7") People Unite
  • Misty: Six One Penny (7") People Unite
  • File 2 resumes
  • Siouxsie & The Banshees: Happy House (7") Polydor
  • Flying Lizards: Her Story (LP - The Flying Lizards) Virgin
  • Eric Barnet: Quaker City (7", 1969) Crab
  • Ruts: Demolition Dancing (session) @
  • Motors: Dancing The Night Away (7") Virgin
  • File 2 cuts to File 3
  • UK Subs: Warhead (7") GEM
  • Misty: True Rasta Man (session)
JP: "I think Misty are very, very hard to beat. I can't understand why they are not more popular than they are."
JP: “Further proof that Liverpool is the cultural center of the globe certainly. And that said as a man who only goes there about 15 times a year, and that’s just for football.”
JP: "After Martha & The Muffins, Martha & The Vandellas. ‘Never overlook the obvious’ is the slogan dubbed in blood on our office door."
  • Martha & The Vandellas: Nowhere To Run (7", 1965) Tamla Motown
  • Tiller Boys: Big Noise From The Jungle (7") New Hormones
  • Ruts: Staring At The Rude Boys (session) @
  • Files 3 & 5 cut out during above track
  • Icarus: A Na Me Culture Dat (12") Crowmium
  • Hornsey At War: Hornsey At War (7" EP - Deadbeat Revival E.P.) War
  • Penetration: Future Daze (LP - Moving Targets) Virgin
  • Daze: I Wanna Be A Star (7") Motor City Rhythm
  • Teen-Beats: Swimmin' Part One
  • Teen-Beats: Swimmin' Part Two
  • Misty: Judgement Coming On The Land (session)
  • Dr. Zeke: Vild I Skogen (7" - Udda Pälsar) Schmajlers Rekords
  • Fun 4: Singing In The Shower (7") NMC
  • Ruts: Secret Soldiers (session) @
  • File 1 cuts out at outro
  • Ruts: In A Rut (session) @
  • Tracks marked @ on File 4

File[]

Name
  • 1) 1980-02-18 John Peel Radio 1 (Incomplete) DB149.mp3
  • 2) 216-800218+19.aif.mp3
  • 3) 216-800218a.if.mp3
  • 4) KevH Tape 1
  • 5) John Peel 18 Feb 1980.mp3
Length
  • 1) 01:35:14
  • 2) 00:33:20 (from 00.00 to 00.13, then from 09:27)
  • 3) 00:32:17
  • 4) 01:33:19 (49:42-01:00:45) (from 57:39 unique)
  • 5) 01:02:51 (from 0:00:12)
Other
  • 1) Created from DB149 of Derby Box, digitised by RF
  • 2) and 3) Created from T216 of 400 Box. Many thanks to Roger and the original taper.
  • 4) KevH Tape 1
  • 5) From the Omega Tapes. Many thanks to Tim for digitisation.
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