Peel 019 (BFBS)

Show

Name

• John Peel's Music On BFBS

Station

• BFBS (Germany)

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1985-09-00

Comments

• (Fairly confidently) dated as early to mid-September 1985. The Cure LP was released on the 30 August,and the Fall on the 29 September. Plus there's the Hüsker Dü gig (see below).
• Another pseudo-thriller story from John (see also 23 August 1998 (BFBS)).

Sessions

• None

Tracklisting

• Cure: 'Push (LP-The Head On The Door)' (Fiction)

(JP: 'A good LP actually, their best in a while.')

• Joy Division: 'Isolation (LP-Closer)' (Factory)

(JP: 'Well, did you ever have so much fun.')

• Cocteau Twins: 'Musette And Drums (LP-Head Over Heels)' (4AD)

(JP: 'You know, I've heard that record squillions of times, and it's the first time I've ever noticed that she actually sings the words "musette and drums" several times in the course of it.')

• Alan Vega: 'Outlaw (LP-Collision Drive)' (Celluloid)

(JP: 'Did that statue move?')

• Fall: 'My New House (LP-This Nation's Saving Grace)' (Beggars Banquet)

(JP: 'Makes you want to throw your hat in the air and shout "Huzzah!", I shouldn't wonder.')

• N.O.T.A.^[1]: 'I Should Kill You (LP-N.O.T.A.)' (Rabid Cat)
• Yeah Yeah Noh: 'Wendy's In The Woods (7"-Another Side To Mrs. Quill)' (In Tape)
• Les Thugs: 'Femme Fatale (7"-B side of Frenetic Dancing)' (Gougnaf Mouvement)
• Hüsker Dü: 'Makes No Sense At All (LP-Flip Your Wig)' (SST)

(JP: 'Saw them last week in London: not bad at all.') ^[2]

• Jesus And Mary Chain: 'Taste Of Cindy (Compilation 7"-The Hit RED Hot EP)' (The Hit)
• Artery: 'Into The Garden (Compilation LP-Goodbye To All That)' (Red Flame)
• Bog-Shed: 'Hand Me Down Father (12"-Let Them Eat Bog Shed)' (Vinyl Drip)
• Nirvana Devils: 'Secret Agent Girl (7")' (Exile)
• Jesus And Mary Chain: 'Head (7"-Just Like Honey)' (Blanco Y Negro)

(JP: 'Well, I like that, but they do still sound like Hawkwind at times.')

• Fall: 'Paint Work (LP-This Nation's Saving Grace)' (Beggars Banquet)

(JP: 'Getting a bit weird, aren't they?')

(JP: '...over her shoulder. He was still following her, his footsteps echoing eerily from the dark walls of the warehouse on either side of the copper alleyway. Veronica quickened her step and the man broke into a loping run, catching her a full hundred yards before the turn into Lawson Square and safety. "You want to buy some tapes of John Peel's Music On BFBS?", he breathed.')

• Echo And The Bunnymen: 'Over Your Shoulder (7"-B side of Bring On The Dancing Horses)' (Korova)

File

Name

• Peel 019

Length

• 01:01:34

Other

• Many thanks to the taper.

Available

• Mooo Server

Footnotes

1. ↑ Standing for 'None Of the Above', as John informs us.
2. ↑ This was at the Marquee Club on 04 September.