Start of show: "Hello, listener, wherever you are. Welcome to a rain-soaked Peel Acres."
Second track of the night is from the movie soundtrack of Five Seconds To Spare, in which Peel himself appears. Unfortunately, after a few seconds: “Now that isn’t supposed to happen. It just stopped.” Happily, it plays OK at the second attempt.
Member of session band Quasi is currently cycling around South America. “If he’s lucky he’ll go to Machu Picchu. Never been there. One of those places I would like to go to enormously but probably never will.”
Appears to be a first play for a subsequent favourite, Laura Cantrell. “She does look, I have to say, not like my idea of a country singer. Kind of thin lipped and stroppy really, and not like a Playboy bunny.” Says the album is “excellent”.
Andy Kershaw later that night has Tom Waits in session: “I’ve never been a great Tom Waits fan, but I shall be listening to it anyway - for Andy rather than for Tom, I suspect.”
Elastica track is the only one Peel currently has from the forthcoming album. The band's most recent session is being repeated the following week.
Recalls days in Austin, Texas, as member of Dallas Country Cricket Club, which had a game broken up when members of the local university US football team invaded the pitch: “They were much bigger than us. And also, I have to say, a great deal more stupid too. And the same sort of attitudes dictated American foreign policy at the time, which was rather frightening.”
Session
Quasi, #2 (rpt). Recorded 1999-09-12. First broadcast 16 November 1999. No known commercial release.