Show[]
- Name
- Station
- YYYY-MM-DD
- 1978-09-18
- Comments
- Three each from the new albums by the Ramones and the Cortinas and two from Wire, causing John to bemoan the lack of continuity in playing the records piecemeal.
Sessions[]
- Dr. Feelgood, #3. Recorded 1978-09-05. Available on BBC Sessions 1973-1978 (Grand).
- Stiff Little Fingers, #2. Recorded: 1978-09-12. Available on The Complete John Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit).
Tracklisting[]
- File b starts at the beginning of the show
- Carl Perkins: 'Matchbox (v/a LP-It's Rock 'N' Roll Vol. 2)' (Super Beeb)
- File c cuts in during next track
- Rolling Stones: 'Respectable (7")' (EMI/Rolling Stones)
- Dr. Feelgood: 'Night Time' (Peel Session)
- Ranking Trevor: 'Hang On (7")' (Morwell Esq.)
- Stiff Little Fingers: 'Suspect Device' (Peel Session)
- Ramones: 'She's The One (LP-Road To Ruin)' (Sire)
- Ramones: 'Bad Brain (LP-Road To Ruin)' (Sire)
- Ramones: 'It's A Long Way Back (LP-Road To Ruin)' (Sire)
- Frankie Miller: 'Darlin' (7")' (Chrysalis)
- (JP: 'One of these days, Frankie Miller's going to be famous. Or perhaps he isn't, I don't know: he's been around long enough where he should be, because he sings better than most people do.') [1]
- Devo: 'Uncontrollable Urge (LP-Q: Are We Not Men> A: We Are Devo!)' (Virgin)
- Burning Spear: 'Civilized Reggae (12")' (Island) wrong speed moment
- Dr. Feelgood: 'Down At The Doctor's' (Peel Session) wrong track moment
- Joe Cocker: 'What You Did To Me Last Night [2] (LP-Luxury You Can Afford)' (Asylum)
- (JP: 'The only thing that actually happened to me last night was that I was woken up at about quarter past four by William, who wanted to discuss combine harvesters.')
- Stiff Little Fingers: 'Barbed Wire Love' (Peel Session)
- Cortinas: 'Have It With You (LP-True Romances)' (CBS)
- Cortinas: 'Tribe Of The City (LP-True Romances)' (CBS)
- Cortinas: 'I Trust Valerie Singleton (LP-True Romances)' (CBS)
- (JP: 'Things seem to be going wrong on this programme, and I have no doubt at all that, some time before midnight, in about an hour's time, I shall take a record off when it's actually playing on the air, in the classic Dicky Lee Torpid manner.')
- Johnny Thunders: 'You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory (7")' (Real)
- Dr. Feelgood: 'Sugar Shaker' (Peel Session)
- File b ends & File c starts
- Peter Hammill: 'The Cut' (Castaway) (LP-The Future Now)' (Charisma)
- Peter Hammill: 'Palinurus (Castaway) (LP-The Future Now)' (Charisma) [3]
- Junior Delgado: 'Arm Robbery (7")' (Crazy Joe)
- Stiff Little Fingers: 'Johnny Was' [4] (Peel Session)
- John Cooper Clarke: 'Post-War Glamour Girl (7")' (CBS)
- Nick Lowe: 'Heart Of The City (Compilation LP-Heroes & Cowards)' (Stiff)
- Wire: 'I Feel Mysterious Today (LP-Chairs Missing)' (Harvest)
- Wire: 'From The Nursery (LP-Chairs Missing)' (Harvest)
- Dr. Feelgood: 'Take A Tip' (Peel Session) last session track - cuts out before end
- File a cuts out during above track. Remaining tracks were on DB018 before that tape was reused, but the tracklisting was preserved as below. Track marked # was dubbed on to DB020 and is available on the file.
- Stiff Little Fingers: Law And Order (session)
- Revolutionaries / Ossie All Stars: Leggo Dub (album - Leggo Dub) Cash And Carry 1460 #
- McKinley Mitchell: Follow The Wind (album - McKinley Mitchell) Chimneyville
- Tanz Der Youth: I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry (7") Radar ADA 19
- File c ends at the end of the show
File[]
- Name
- a) 1978-09-18 John Peel Radio 1 (incomplete) DB015+DB020
- b) john peel 18th sept 78 side 1
- c) john peel 18 sept 78 side 2
- Length
- a) 1:40:05
- b) 1:03:16
- c) 0:59:30
- Other
- a) File created from DB015 and DB020 of the Derby Box. Many thanks to Chris and Rob.
- b) c) Many thanks to Tim.
- Available
- Footnotes
- ↑ The following month, this single climbed to no.6 in the UK charts.
- ↑ Bettye Crutcher cover.
- ↑ Peel is unsure of who or what Palinurus was: according to Wikipedia, "Palinurus, in Roman mythology and especially Virgil's Aeneid, is the helmsman of Aeneas's ship. Later authors used him as a general type of navigator or guide." [1]
- ↑ Bob Marley & The Wailers cover.