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29 December 1980

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1980-12-29
Comments
  • Fourth of five shows featuring the 1980 Festive Fifty.
  • Most of show available in 2 parts. Part 1 - Sessions & Part 2 - Festive Fifty rundown: #20 to #11.
  • Notable Peel quote - On hearing son Thomas's first words "Dalglish" - "We fell to our knees at home and stayed there for at least half an hour just to be on the safe side"

Sessions[]

(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)

Tracklisting[]

  • File 1 begins at start of show
  • JP: "Have among ye, my blind harpers!"[1] 4
  • File 1 pauses
  • Beat: New Psychedelic Rockers (session) (start and end only) 4
  • The Adam And The Ants session was requested by many listeners who had decided they do like them after all 4
  • File 1 resumes
  • Adam & The Ants: Zerox Machine (session) 3 6 (start only on 4)
JP: "Adam & The Ants and 'Zerox' - and still a much requested item when the John Peel Roadshow takes to the road, as it does this coming Saturday, when it has to go to Edinburgh. It also hopes to go the Meadowbank match earlier on in the day."
  • Icarus: Tower Block Kid (session) 6
JP: "Incidentally, Boots For Dancing and Fire Engines the bands I am gigging with in Edinburgh at the weekend."[2]
JP: Urgent travel message - Piccadilly Circus closed to traffic.
JP: On hearing son Thomas's first words "Dalglish" - "We fell to our knees at home and stayed there for at least half an hour just to be on the safe side."
  • Killing Joke: Complications (session) 6
  • Killing Joke and Complications, ow, and if you'd like a copy of the Festive 50, to which we return in about 35 minutes time", copy of F50 mark envelopes Sheena Easton 5
  • Icarus: Don't Put Reggae In A Bag (session) 6
  • Passions: I'm In Love With A German Film Star (session) 6
JP: "Tug of love earthquake victims in open heart surgery drama."
  • Jon begins to announce Killing Joke but then changes it to the Beat
  • File 1 pauses
  • Beat: Monkey Murders Nine Mexicans (session) back announced only 5
  • John's opinion on the breakfast TV contracts, back announces Beat and Monkey Murders Nine Mexicans. Intros Killing Joke session track Tomorrow's World 5
  • File 1 resumes
  • Killing Joke: Tomorrow's World (session) 6
  • Adam & The Ants: You're So Physical (session) 3 6
  • Adam & The Ants: Cleopatra (session) 3 6

File 1 ends 4:07 from start of You're So Physical

  • Passions: Someone Special (session) 6
  • JP Preview of F50 4
  • Icarus: Shall We Roam (session) 6 (start and end only File 4)
  • Continuous section of File 4
  • File 2 begins with outro to above
  • Festive 50 rundown so far 4 5

1980 Festive Fifty

  • 20 Joy Division: "New Dawn Fades" (Unknown Pleasures, 1979) Factory
  • 19 Ruts: "In a Rut" (7" single, 1978) People Unite
  • 18 Cure: "A Forest" [album version] (Seventeen Seconds, 1980) Fiction
  • 17 Undertones: "Get Over You" (The Undertones, 1979) Sire
  • 16 Stiff Little Fingers: "Johnny Was" (Inflammable Material, 1979) Rough Trade
  • Advert for Radio One Talkabout (mostly edited out 4)
  • 15 Clash: "Complete Control" (7" single, 1977) CBS
  • 14 Joy Division: "Decades" (Closer, 1980) Factory File 4 cuts out during this track
  • 13 The Jam: "Going Underground" (7" single, 1980) Polydor
  • 12 Sex Pistols: "Holidays in the Sun" (Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, 1977) Virgin Records.
  • JP: "At #18 in 1978 and #14 in 1979 and #12 this year, and possibly giving some impetus to my theory - which I think I hold alone, actually - that this may be ultimately the most durable of the four classic Pistols singles."
  • 11 Public Image Ltd.: "Public Image" (Public Image, 1978) Virgin Records
  • end of show 5
  • File 2 ends

File[]

Name
  • Part 1: John Peel Show (1980_12_29) 1980 Festive 50 sessions.mp3 or 01JohnPeelShow(19801229).mp3
  • Part 2: JP19801229_v2.mp3
  • 3) KevH Tape 2
  • 4) John Peel 29 Dec 1980.mp3
  • 5) The Warm Glow Of John Peel
  • 6) 1980-12-29 Peel Show JS40
Length
  • Part 1: 46:13
  • Part 2: 53:16 (from 3:17) file begins with first track of 24 December 1980
  • 3) 11:21-24:42
  • 4) 36:42 (00:00-00:04, 00:29-01:06 unique)
  • 5) 44:25 (1:06-5:14) (1:36-1:54 unique)
  • 6) 57:19 (from 43:46-57:04 additional)
Other
  • Part 1: Very good stereo sound at 320 kbps. Tape and file from Hangthedj 17:16, August 29, 2010 (UTC)
  • Part 2: Very good stereo sound at 256 kbps. Many thanks to ray_b2 for uploading this show.
  • 3) From KevH Tape 2
  • 4) Many thanks to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation.
  • 5) The Warm Glow Of John Peel
  • 6) Many thanks to Jimmy. Excellent FM stereo recording. Created from JS40 of JS Tapes, digitised by Weatherman22.
  • Please address all re-up requests to Peel Mailing List.
Available
  1. ↑ This appears to be from a variation of the traditional folk song The Lochmaben Harper.
  2. ↑ 3rd January 1981, Nite Club, Edinburgh - Photo here
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