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22 May 1980

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[edit] Show

Name
  • John Peel Show
Station
  • BBC Radio One
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1980-05-22
Comments
  • Plays all three b-sides to the new single from Bill Nelson, "Do You Dream In Colour?". (The track "Atom Man Loves Radium Girl" is not included on this recording). The A-side was played the previous evening, 21 May 1980.
  • Taking into account the track edited out of this recording, this is missing approximately the last 45 minutes of the programme.

[edit] Sessions

(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)

[edit] Tracklisting

  • Girlschool: Nothing to Lose (7") Bronze Records
  • JP: After last night's programme, when I found myself clambering into the racer outside Broadcasting House, I found myself humming the Clash's 'Bank Robber'. Not an easy thing to hum, I'll admit, but humming it I certainly was, so here it is again.
  • Clash: Bankrobber (7" Dutch import) CBS
  • JP: Well I have no doubt at all there'll be vast numbers of imports of that flooding the country shortly if they're not already, and when I go to Holland at the weekend I intend to try and come back with a handful of them myself... terrific, I think, that. Like it a great deal.
  • Bill Nelson: Ideal Homes (b-side of "Do You Dream In Colour?" 7") Cocteau
  • Basement 5: Last White Christmas (session)
  • The VDUs: Thin White Lines (7") Thin Sliced (faded out)
  • Lee Dorsey: Working in a Coal Mine (Edited out of tape)
  • Echo & The Bunnymen: The Pictures On My Wall (session)
  • Papa Michigan & General Smiley: One Love Jam Down (7") 56 Hope Road
  • Bobby Saffron & the Postal Bargains: Saturday Morning Movies (EP 'Lord Rockingham's Revenge') Testament
  • JP: Every once in a while we disc jockeys are victims of elaborate and extensive postal campaigns by bands, I mean their various friends and followers and so forth send us lots of postcards from all over the country trying to persuade us to play their records. And of course these things tend to be slightly counterproductive in that you feel resentful ultimately, and think - well if I play this all of these people are going to think "ha ha! It works!" and will redouble their efforts. Recently the band 17 for example, I've been getting a lot of postcards on their behalf urging me to play a record of theirs which came out last year. And also in recent months, or recent weeks, a lot of cards from people who admire the work of the Jerks and want to hear their new single 'Come Back Bogart (I Wish You Would)'. Well here it is.
  • Jerks: Come Back Bogart (I Wish You Would) (7") Laser Records
  • JP: Walters [has] just been on the phone rather aggrieved actually, because I'd failed to point out that he'd followed 'Saturday Morning Movies' with 'Come Back Bogart (I Wish You Would)' - and the next one up is 'I Don't Wanna See Your Picture'. The Mechanics.
  • Mechanics: I Don't Wanna See Your Picture (7") Riviera Records
  • Basement 5: Silicon Chip (session)
  • JP: Thank you lads, you've made your point. [the track is 8 minutes long]
  • BB Gabor: Metropolitan Life (7") Blueprint
  • JP: Walters has missed an opportunity here because Metropolitan Life of course the name of an insurance company and there was another record down on the list of records that I thought we would be playing which was also the name of an insurance company, 'Mutual Of Omaha' by the Fools. But he hasn't scheduled it, so...
  • Bill Nelson: Instantly Yours (b-side of "Do You Dream In Colour?" 7") Cocteau
  • Killing Joke: Pssyche (b-side 'Wardance' 7") Malicious Damage
  • JP: Do you realise that within four days I shall have seen Van Halen live? I bet you wish you could be me eh? Course you do!
  • U2: 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (7") Island
  • JP: What kind of a DJ am I? Don't answer that question; I should have played that at 11 O'Clock and indeed Walters had intended that I should do. And if I'd played the Killing Joke and that the other way around, it would have been on exactly at 11 O'Clock. As it is, it's what, 9 minutes past 11. It's not the same is it? Be honest.
  • Echo & The Bunnymen: All That Jazz (session)
  • Magazine: Philadelphia (LP - The Correct Use Of Soap) Virgin (Tape Ends)

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  • 1980-05-22 John Peel Radio 1 (Incomplete).mp3
Length
  • 1:07:13
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