30 December 1981

Show

Name

• John Peel Show

Station

• BBC Radio One

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1981-12-30

Comments

• The last of five shows featuring the 1981 Festive Fifty chart. Currently, only the chart rundown part of the show is available.
• Information on sessions obtained from announcement by JP in previous night's show.

Sessions

• Altered Images, #3 (repeat). Recorded 1981-09-04. No known commercial release.
• Vice Squad, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1981-06-01. 'Coward' and 'It's A Sell Out' on 'Riotous Assembly' LP.
• Higsons, #2 (repeat). Recorded 1981-10-21. No known commercial release.
• Twinkle Brothers, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1981-09-23. No known commercial release.
• Pigbag, one and only session (repeat). Recorded 1981-09-09. No known commercial release.
• Fire Engines, #1 (repeat). Recorded 1981-02-23. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting

(edit)

• Higsons: We Will Never Grow Old (Session)
• Altered Images: Pinky Blue (Session)

(edit)

• Fire Engines: Untitled (Session)
• Twinkle Brothers: Never Get Burned (Session)

(edit)

John Peel's Festive 50 1981: Numbers 10-01

• 10: Clash: '(White Man In) Hammersmith Palais (7 inch)' (CBS)
• JP: 'Don't forget, if you're one of the tens of people who'd like a copy of the Festive Fifty, if you send us a stamped addressed envelope, we'll send you one. Put a stamped addressed envelope in an envelope itself, of course, and write 'Sheena Easton' on it: that's what I invited you to write last year so that I could identify them from the other admiring letters that come from people all over the world, it must be said, into the programme. Write 'Sheena Easton' on your envelope: don't write it on the one that we've got to send back to you. That'd be pointless. And address the same to 'John Peel, BBC Radio One, London W1A 4WW': that would seem to get it. We'll send you a copy of the Festive Fifty, or more accurately, actually, the Festive Sixty. If I have time, I'll give you 51-60 at the end of the programme, if I can catch you.'
• 09: Dead Kennedys: 'Holiday In Cambodia (7 inch)' (Alternative Tentacles)
• JP: 'What a pity that the Dead Kennedys don't make records as vigorous as that these days.'
• 08: Cure: 'A Forest (12 inch)' (Fiction)
• JP: 'Are you getting excited, are you? Pretty tense, the palms sweating, that sort of thing? How disgusting.'
• 07: Joy Division: 'Decades (LP-Closer)' (Factory)
• JP (naturally referring to the next track): 'This would have been number one in any well-ordered chart, in other words, a chart put together by me.'
• 06: Undertones: 'Teenage Kicks (EP-Teenage Kicks)' (Good Vibrations)
• JP: 'As close as anyone has come, in my view, to making the perfect single.' 'This next...by a very horrible irony indeed, most of the votes that I had from Poland, and there were about five or six of them, were for this.' (This page contains background relating to John's comment on the contemporary political situation in that country.)
• 05: Joy Division: 'New Dawn Fades (LP-Unknown Pleasures)' (Factory)
• 04: New Order: 'Ceremony (7 inch)' (Factory)
• JP: 'The B-side of that, incidentally, In A Lonely Place, was number 54, my old locker number at school. I'm sure you remember that'
• 03: Joy Division: 'Love Will Tear Us Apart (7 inch)' (Factory)
• JP: 'If you were listening to Neil's programme earlier on, I emphasised there that the voting for the first two had been immensely close. I mean, two or three more votes for the second one would have made it number one, if you see what I mean.' (He then lists numbers 51-60, a record of which can be found on this page).
• 02: Sex Pistols: 'Anarchy In The U.K. (presumably from LP-Never Mind The Bollocks)' (Virgin)
• JP: 'Number one for the last three years, and number two this. End of an era, or what? I don't know.'
• 01: Joy Division: 'Atmosphere (7 inch)' (Factory)

File

Name

• (a) John Peel Festive Fifty 1981 Part 5.m4a
• (b) JP19811230.mp3

Length

• 0:45:02
• 0:54:25

Other

Available

• John Peel Torrent Compilation 1 Of 17 (Festive Fifties 1992-2004 Plus Others)