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Tape

Name
Station
  • BBC Radio One
YYYY-MM
  • 1981
  • Another in a series of Peel compilations from various periods compiled by Mark, this one from the period when he was quite clearly smitten.
  • Featured sessions:
Talisman, one and only session. Recorded 1981-09-07, first broadcast 09 September 1981. No known commercial release.
Method Actors, one and only session. Recorded 1981-07-18, first broadcast 22 July 1981, this repeat 09 September 1981. No known commercial release.
A Formal Sigh, one and only session. Recorded 1981-09-05, first broadcast 10 September 1981. No known commercial release.
Nightingales, #2. Recorded 1981-07-06, first broadcast 07 July 1981, this repeat 10 September 1981.
Fall, #5. Recorded 1981-08-19, first broadcast 26 August 1981, this repeat 15 September 1981. Available on The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 (Castle).
Pigbag, one and only session. Recorded 1981-09-09, first broadcast 15 September 1981. No known commercial release.

Tracklisting

  • Altered Images: 'Legionaire (LP-Happy Birthday)' (Epic)
  • (JP: 'I've obtained...well...on somebody else's desk, a photograph of Clare of Altered Images, which is on my desk, on the console, even as I speak to you. And...er...I shall say no more on the subject.')
  • Lurkers: 'I Don't Need To Tell Her (7 inch)' (Beggars Banquet)
  • (JP: 'All our yesteryears, those loveable Lurkers from way back when. I can be a real disc jockey, you know, I'm working well tonight.')
  • Talisman: 'Wicked Dem' (Peel Session) [1]
  • (A highly amusing piece in which John roleplays alongside a Vincent Price record, after which he threatens to continue to do so for the rest of the programme.)
  • NA Pop 2000: 'So-so (LP-A Warped Sense Of Humour)' (Peartree)
  • Method Actors: 'E-Y-E' (Peel Session)
  • Talisman: 'Run Come Girl' (Peel Session)
  • Revillos: 'Monster Man (7 inch-She's Fallen In Love With A Monster Man)' (Superville)
  • (JP: 'This next single is something I suggested the Revillos ought to cover, and they seem to have ignored my suggestion, so I shall just go ahead and play it, and you can record it if you like.')
  • Annette Funicello: 'Jo Jo The Dog Faced Boy (LP-Annette)' (Disney)
  • A Formal Sigh: 'Ev Rev' (Peel Session)
  • (JP: 'I'm very partial to that, I must say.')
  • Nightingales: '(One) Mistake' (Peel Session)
  • Wailing Souls: 'Who No Waan Come (LP-Wailing)' (Jah Guidance)
  • (tape flip)
  • Comsat Angels: 'Our Secret (LP-Sleep No More)' (Polydor)
  • Bananarama: 'Aie A Mwana (7 inch)' (Demon) [2]
  • Black Blood: 'A.I.E. (A Mwana) (LP-A.I.E.)' (Mainstream)
  • Slits: 'Earthbeat And Earthdub (12 inch-Earthbeat)' (CBS)
  • Adam And The Ants: 'Prince Charming (7 inch)' (CBS)
  • (Peel fades this early, as he has an ulterior motive in playing this...)
  • Rolf Harris: 'War Canoe (7 inch)' (Columbia) (...which bears an uncanny resemblance.)
  • Fall: 'Deer Park' (Peel Session)
  • Thundertones: 'Hot Ice (LP-The Best In Buried Sound)' (Ostrich)
  • (JP: 'Profoundly lo-fi, that, for which I apologise, but only half-heartedly.')
  • Undertones: 'What's With Terry? (LP-Hypnotised)' (Sire)
  • Pigbag: 'Me And Your Shadow' (Peel Session)
  • Maximum Joy: 'Stretch (7 inch)' (Y)
  • Scientist: 'Wa Di Is Free (LP-Scientist Meets The Rots Radics)' (Selena)
  • Max Romeo: 'War In A Babylon (7 inch)' (Charmax Music)
  • (the beginning of the Altered Images track featured at the start of the tape)

File

Name
  • Rolf Harris 81
Length
  • 01:35:41
Other
Available
Footnotes
  1. As JP remarks, their first session was for Richard Skinner, 'months and months ago. He scoops us on everything.'
  2. Produced by Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols. Apparently. Followed by the original version.
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