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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1983-12-27
Comments
  • This is the third of five shows featuring session repeats from 1983 and that year's Festive Fifty. Only a few session tracks are so far available.

Sessions[]

  • Gymslips, #3 (repeat). Recorded 1983-04-30. No known commercial release.
  • Serious Drinking, #4 (repeat). Recorded 1983-09-26. No known commercial release.
  • Chameleons, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1983-06-08. Originally available on Strange Fruit (SFRCD114).
  • Helen And The Horns, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1983-08-31. No known commercial release.
  • Big Country, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1983-03-09. No known commercial release.
  • Misty, #5 (repeat). Recorded 1982-12-15. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting[]

Session Tracks

  • Serious Drinking: Closer Closer (session) 8
  • Chameleons: Don't Fall (session) 7
  • Misty In Roots: Own Them Control Them (session) 6
  • John hopes that we had lots of their records in stockings on Christmas Day 6
  • Gymslips: Up The Wall (session) 6
  • Chameleons: Nostalgia (session) 6
  • File 1 cuts in just before intro to next track
  • File 1 pauses after 9s
  • File 5 cuts in 57s from end of next track
  • Misty: Earth (session)
  • File 1 resumes at outro to above, slight edit at start of next track, continues from 13s into file until end of show
  • Serious Drinking: Go For The Burn (session)
  • File 5 fades out 1:45s into above track
  • Helen And The Horns: Freight Train (session)
  • Chameleons: Perfumed Garden (session) 6
  • Big Country: Inwards (session) File 4) starts half way through this track
  • The F50 is contained on File 1), File 2/3) and File 4).

1983 Festive Fifty: Numbers 30-21

  • 30: Redskins, 'Lean On Me! (7 inch)' (CNT Productions)
  • 29: Aztec Camera, 'Oblivious (LP-High Land, Hard Rain)' (Rough Trade)
  • 28: Cocteau Twins, 'Peppermint Pig (7 inch)' (4AD)
  • 27: Sisters Of Mercy, 'Alice (7 inch)' (Merciful Release)
  • 26: 10,000 Maniacs: 'My Mother The War (12 inch)' (Reflex)
  • JP: 'I know that actually technically, I mean, and in fact that was issued last year, I mean in 1982, but I think it only burst upon an astonished British public this year, so it was fair to include it. And anyway, I like it a lot myself.'
  • 25: New Order, 'Leave Me Alone (LP-Power Corruption And Lies)' (Factory)
  • JP: 'Will that be the last time we hear from New Order in this broadcasting of the Festive Fifty? What do you think?'
  • 24: Elvis Costello (under the pseudonym The Imposter), 'Pills And Soap (LP-Punch The Clock)' (F-Beat)
  • 23: Assembly, 'Never Never (7 inch)' (Mute)
  • (John reads out a letter from a listener who, like him, is a fan of the Archers, and who asks if Eddie Grundy will be doing a session. JP: 'Who can tell?')
  • 22: Echo And The Bunnymen, 'The Cutter (7 inch)' (Korova)
  • 21: Fall: 'The Man Whose Head Expanded (7 inch)' (Rough Trade)
  • JP: 'Should have been higher, if you ask me. I don't rig these things, you know, although I'm slightly tempted to on occasion.'

File[]

Name
  • 1) JP19831227.mp3
  • 2) ff83.2
  • 3) ff83.1
  • 4) 1983-12-27 Peel Show.mp3
  • 5) 1983-12-27 Peel Show S017.mp3
  • 6) John Peel late Dec 83 Jan 84.mp3
  • 7) John Peel Dec 1983.mp3
  • 8) Side D.flac
Length
  • 1) 1:02:48
  • 2) and 3) This show begins at 01:30:39 on file 2) ff83.2, runs to the end, and continues from the beginning of file 3) ff83.1 to 00:28:30.
  • 4) 47:19
  • 5) 2:47 (0:58, 1:03-1:25 unique)
  • 6) 1:30:52 (to 14:40) (to 10:07 unique)
  • 7) 1:34:18 (from 1:30:23) (unique)
  • 8) 45:23 (35:18-38:25) (unique)
Other
Available