Pram are a British post-rock band formed in Birmingham, England in 1988 by Rosie Cuckston (vocals, keyboards), Matt Eaton (guitar), Andy Weir (drums), and Samantha Owen (bass). Rosie, Matt and Andy were previously members of Friends Of The Family. Subsequent lineups have changed frequently, most notably with Cuckston's departure in 2008. Their electronic pop sound, described by AllMusic as "equally quaint and unsettling," employs unconventional instruments and draws on stylistic influences such as krautrock, exotica, and dub. The group signed to Too Pure Records in 1993, where they released their debut LP The Stars Are So Big, The Earth Is So Small... Stay as You Are. They later signed to Domino. Following the 2007 album The Moving Frontier, they took a lengthy hiatus, returning in 2018 with Across the Meridian.
Links to Peel[]
Matt Eaton wrote a piece of his memories of home taping and being a fan of the John Peel show on the Under The Radar website in September 2020:
"Sometime in 1987 the young Matt dubbed a song from his cassette recording of an entire John Peel show onto a compilation of best bits and greatest hits. We would use and reuse cassettes until they wore out, dubbed into the muffled distance, or became tangled and mangled beyond repair." [2]
In the same article, he mentioned remembering a song title on a Peel show and his favourites that JP would play on his programmes:
"I remember the title of the song "True Romance at the Worlds Fair," and I don't think that I ever made a note of the band that released it in that year.[1] Big things were afoot in my world of music, I was listening to Can, the Stooges, PiL (no, still don't get it), '60s garage, Silver Apples, Lee Perry, and Joe Gibbs' dubs, obsessively and covertly recording the John Peel show onto cassette five nights a week" [3]
Singer, Rosie Cuckston also was a fan of Peel's programme who mentioned to her friend, Clare Wadd, in 1984 about his programmes on the radio. [4]
In 2003, Peel nominated their album, Dark Island, as one of his albums of the month for January 2003 (Peel's Record Box).
Sessions[]
PRAM John Peel 7th March 1999
1. Recorded: 1999-03-07. Broadcast: 21 April 1999
- Monkey Puzzle / A Million Bubbles Burst / Teaching Snails To Make Pearls
2. Recorded: 2000-07-16. Broadcast: 15 August 2000
- Running Shoes / Cat's Cradle / The Way Of The Mongoose / Play Of The Waves
3. Recorded: 2003-04-03. Broadcast: 20 May 2003
- Sirocco / Steamwhistler / Leeward / The Archivist
Other Shows Played[]
- 06 April 1991: Dead Piano (LP - Gash) Howl
- 05 May 1991: Flesh (mini LP - Gash) Howl
- 1993
- 08 January 1993: Cumulus (12 inch - Iron Lung EP) Too Pure
- 16 January 1993: 'Blue Singer (12"-Iron Lung E.P.)' (Too Pure)
- 17 January 1993 (BFBS): Cumulus (EP - Iron Lung) Too Pure
- 11 September 1993: 'Radio Freak In A Storm (LP-The Stars Are So Big The Earth Is So Small ...Stay As You Are)' (Too Pure)
- 02 September 1994: Windy/My Father The Clown (CD – Helium) Too Pure
- 30 September 1994: My Father The Clown (album - Helium) Too Pure
- 1995
- 04 August 1995: Earthing And Protection (LP - Sargasso Sea) Too Pure
- 02 September 1995: 'Earthing And Protection (LP-Sargasso Sea)' (Too Pure)
- 29 September 1995: 'Crooked Tiles (LP-Sargasso Sea)' (Too Pure)
- 09 November 1996: ‘Silver Nitrate (12 inch – Music For Your Movies )’ Duophonic
- 24 November 1996: 'Silver Nitrate (CDS-Music For Your Movies)' (Duophonic)
- 1997
- 26 January 1997: ‘Omnichord (7 inch )’ Wurlitzer Jukebox
- 27 February 1997: Omnichord (7" - Omnichord / Sixty Years Of Telephony) Wurlitzer Jukebox
- 16 March 1999: Space Siren (single) Domino
- March 1999 (FSK): Space Siren (CD - Telemetric Melodies) Domino
- 31 March 1999: Carnival Of Ghosts (Ghost Train Dub) (v/a LP - Will Our Children Thank Us?) Foundry
- 31 March 1999: Keep In A Dry Place And Away From Children (EP: Space Siren) Domino
- 08 April 1999 (Radio Eins): Keep In A Dry Place And Away From Children (single) Domino
- 08 June 2000: Bewitched (CD - Museum of Imaginary Animals) Domino
- 13 June 2000: Narwhal (LP - Museum Of Imaginary Animals) Domino
- 15 June 2000 (Radio Eins): Narwhal (LP - Museum Of Imaginary Animals) Domino
- 06 July 2000: Mother Of Pearl (CD - Museum Of Imaginary Animals) Domino
- 09 August 2000: 'A History Of Ice' (LP 'Museum Of Imaginery Animals') Domino
- 2001
- 20 June 2001: Play Of The Waves (Balky Mule Remix) (CD - Somniloquy) Domino
- 10 December 2002: Penny Arcade (LP - Dark Island) Domino
- 2003
- 10 January 2003 (BBC World Service): Sirocco (LP - Dark Island) Domino
- 15 January 2003: Sirocco (LP - Dark Island) Domino
- 16 January 2003: Peepshow (LP - Dark Island) Domino
- 21 January 2003: Penny Arcade (LP - Dark Island) Domino
- 30 January 2003: Goodbye (LP - Dark Island) Domino
- 31 January 2003 (BBC World Service): Penny Arcade (LP - Dark Island) Domino
- 06 February 2003: Leeward (LP - Dark Island) Domino
See Also[]
- July 2000 (Peel's Record Box)
- January 2003 (Peel's Record Box)
- The Collection (Peel Acres - Sarathy Korwar)