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 Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1987-09-22
Comments
  • Peel plays two tracks from the Bhundu Boys latest LP.
  • Peel plays a wrong track moment from When People Were Shorter And Lived Near The Water, before correcting it quickly.
  • Peel reads a letter from James from Northern Ireland, who states that he played Black Dog by Babe Ruth last Tuesday and wants to know any info about releases from the artist, but JP mentions that he has never played the record, until he called the Pig to confirm it and she mentioned to him that he did play it.[1]
  • Peel talks about his experience acting in Who Dares Wins after he read that one of the men from that programme will be interviewed by Janice Long. He mentions that he wore a police uniform whilst filming and car drivers thought he was a real policeman and many were cowering down whilst going pass him, thinking that they may be in trouble.
  • Peel thought Laugh's Interlove was the last session track of the show and realises later on it isn't.

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

(JP: 'We start with a band from Anchorage, Alaska, the first one ever I think')
(JP: 'And tonight the debut session as I hinted at the beginning of the programme of Napalm Death and in the course of the session, they do quite a few songs but they've grouped in together in bunches of two or three at a time and here's the first three...')
  • Napalm Death: The Kill / Prison Without Walls / Dead (session) #
(JP: 'Forgot about the last one, oh pretty intense stuff, that comes from Napalm Death in session for the first time on the programme...)
(JP: 'Now we're back to our chums Napalm Death, three more tunes for you')
  • Napalm Death: Deceiver / Lucid Fairytale / In Extremis (session) @ #
(JP: 'Oh you don't catch me twice like that...')
(JP: 'Napalm Death and three more from them')
  • Napalm Death: Blind To The Truth / Negative Approach / Common Enemy (session) @ #
(JP: 'Oh very Cole Porter...')
(JP: 'This is the last tonight from Napalm Death, I say the last, it's actually the last three from Napalm Death...)
  • Napalm Death: Obstinate Divide / Life &1 / You Suffer (session) @ #
(Long silence) (JP: 'Are they going to jump at me? (silence) are they? (silence) no they're not. Those are the bands that puts barking back in the charts, where it really belongs, Napalm Death, the last from them and good raucous stuff too...)
(JP: 'To end tonight's programme, something little relaxing for you for a change, this is Earl Bostic')
Tracks marked # on File 1
Tracks marked @ on File 2
Tracks marked £ on File 5
Tracks marked & on File 6

File[]

Name
  • 1) Napalm Death Peel session 1987 Radio Broadcast!
  • 2) [1987-56] John Peel Selection ~ BBC Radio 1 ~ Aug & Oct 1987
  • 3) 020A-B2781XXXXXXX-0100M0.mp3
  • 4) 020A-B2781XXXXXXX-0101M0.mp3
  • 5) RF Sessions 2.mp3
  • 6) 1987-09-xx-12-xx Peel September December 1987 UC005.mp3
Length
  • 1) 0:07:07 (to 0:01:20 unique)
  • 2) 1:00:33 (0:09:38 - 0:22:20)
  • 3) 1:00:20
  • 4) 0:57:35
  • 5) 56:18 (23:40-28:09)
  • 6) 1:28:19 (from 1:15:20, 54:44-1:02:29) (from 1:15:20, 57:07-1:02:29 unique)
Other
Available
Footnotes
  1. According to the 15 September 1987 tracklisting which would have been a Tuesday, there is no record of Peel playing it on that show.