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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1997-02-18
Comments
  • First show following the move back to mid week slots.
  • Introduction. After a short snippet of the theme tune to Children’s Favourites [Puffin Billy]. JP: ‘Hello again crowd of people. I’m John Peel. Reclaiming territory if you like. Like a dog pissing on a gatepost, therefore this.’
  • In 2022, Peel's original handwritten running order for the show was among those auctioned at Bonhams, London.[1]

Sessions[]

  • Coldcut #1. Broadcast live from Maida Vale. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting[]

(8:30 news)
(JP: ‘Still the best record ever made.’)
(JP:  '...and he’s sent me a postcard which says on the front of it “Industry must serve the people not enslave them.” A fanatic quite clearly.’) [1]
(JP: ‘Well, as you can tell from the scratchy start, that’s one of those tunes I used to play a lot when I felt sorry for myself when I was living in Dallas on me own. Touch Me Willie Nelson, and the point being that the track before that was called Touch Me as well and that was by a Guy Called Gerald from the LP on Juice Box records called Black Secret Technology. And that’s the kind of poor idea that passes for a programming concept that you’ll get in these programmes’.)
(9:30 news)
  1. 'Coldcut vs Grandmaster Flash'
  2. 'Creatures'
  3. 'Shakatakadoob'
  4. 'Scratch Yr Heads'
  5. 'Beats + Pieces ’97'
  • File 1 ends a few minutes from the end of the set & File 3 begins
  • Smaller: Is (7") Better (Peel mistakenly calls the track Work Better)
  • Black Dog: Four Friends And A Microphone (v/a album– Foundations: Coming Up From The Streets) Feedback Communications @
  • Third Eye Foundation: Semtex Version (12") Domino SER 502 @
  • Ender: We Can't Forget The Snake, Your Tongue (7" EP - Ender) Sing! Eunuchs EUNUCH 24 @
  • Grouch: Smile (7") PPP
  • File 3 ends at end of show
  • Tracks marked @ available on File 2

File[]

Name
  • 1) Peel Show 1997-02-18 (incomplete)
  • 2) 1997-02-xx Peel Show LE330
  • 3) 18 February 1997 part 2.mp3
Length
  • 1) 1:31:52 (from 1:29-1:31:45)
  • 2) 1:32:27 (to 45:13)
  • 3) 0:23:04
Other
Available
Footnotes