Start of show: 'Hello, Sir John Peel here...I have in front of me the inspiring slogan of radio station KIMY in Oklahoma City-"No punk, no funk, no elevated junk." Quite right, too.'
Sessions[]
Ivor Cutler, #16. Recorded 1987-06-09. No known commercial release.
Mekons, #6 (repeat). Recorded 1987-02-10. No known commercial release.
(JP: 'A letter from the Thieves, writing to me from Glasgow. "Dear John Peel, after one play on your show of the Thieves' single 'Talk Your Head Off', all sorts of A&R men, managers and publishers etc. are coming up to see us at our next gig." I hope it went well. Here's a second playing of the record: who can tell what'll happen after this?')
(JP: 'Rather unpromising title....I was initially rather wary of something called 'Sally Cinnamon': I mean, it seems to sum up the worst of that kind of late sixties whimsy, but a fine record, I think, in the event.')
(JP: 'I once had an LP that was nothing but drag boat racing sounds, and it was recorded in Riverside, I think...no, it was on the Riverside label...something of a collector's item, which disappeared out of my collection 25 years ago. If any of you've got it, can I have it back?')
(JP: 'You probably don't realise that we get industrial injuries in this job. I may have mentioned this to you before, but I spend so much time opening envelopes with the side of my thumb that there's a kind of permanent part of me thumb which is all very dry and cracked, and from time to time it starts bleeding rather profusely: it's doing it at this very moment. I just tell you this so that you'll feel sorry for me, but I don't think it's actually severe enough for me to be able to claim any compensation from any kind of industrial injury compensation board, if such a thing even exists any longer. I've also got a twisted ankle, because this afternoon I spent playing football with our William, because he'd got the day off school. Quite interesting, because he had to go to a specialist in Ipswich this morning because he's growing two rows of teeth. It's not unusual in crocodiles, but fairly unusual in sub-humans, I think. Looks fairly interesting, though. I've been saying he ought to leave it as a kind of feature, but he thinks it ought to be sorted out: pick the best of them and take the rest out.')