John reminisces about his recent visit to Japan with Janice Long: "The longer I stayed there, the weirder it got....definitely a place worth visiting if you ever get the chance. If you've not been there already, of course."
He also suggests, rather optimistically, that the A Witness album would make a good Christmas present for somebody.
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John says that in a miraculous way since last week's programme he's spent 10 days in Japan, 10 days in Hong Kong and 1 day in CHine
John mentions that when he turned up at BFBS in Hong Kong when he got to the gate, the guy picked up the phone and said "Peelie's here" and that sort of thing sets him up for days
JP: 'This next is a record that I picked up in Japan by a band called Junk Schizo. I read about them...This is Black And Red
JP - "You'd imagine with an band called Sarasvati you're gonna get a lot of badly tuned sitars and lot's of twaddle out one's mind derived inaccurately from covers of Penguin books in bookshops but as you can hear that wasn't the case at all""
Cultural Thugs: Christians To The Lions (v/a album - Funky Alternatives Volume 1) Concrete Productions CPRODLP 001
John's still not heard an actual John Peel's Music on BFBS coming out of the radio - he fell asleep just before it was due on air in Hong Kong. If only he knew that it could be picked up in the UK...