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31 October 1978

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[edit] Show

Name
  • John Peel Show
Station
  • BBC Radio One
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1978-10-31
Comments
  • Highlights are the change of frequency balloon competition (at 01.09.49), the 1979 Radio One calender advert (18.12), Radio One football match preview (3.52) and the definitive statement on the next Damned/Doomed session (7.14). The 10-minute Residents track may make you sit up.
  • Peel nearly manages to play the wrong record instead of King Short Shirt.
  • M single had been picked up by MCA and remixed after original release on Do It. Band would later have a major UK chart hit with "Pop Muzik".
  • Mentions that Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks) wrote sleeve notes for the Can album.
  • After the Burning Spear track, JP says (at 29.59) he still gets letters from people who say they "don't like all of this reggae music you keep playing" - “I don’t understand this at all, and surely you’ve got to like that!”
  • Says it’ll probably be last time he plays Teenage Kicks ("because other people are playing it now, happily”)! The single is at #31 in that week’s chart. After giving it a spin he relents slightly: “Well, I might play it a couple more times. What a wonderful record it is, to be sure.”

[edit] Sessions

All the Wire tracks are available on The Peel Sessions Album (LP, Strange Fruit, 1989; re-released as The Peel Sessions, CD, Strange Fruit, 1996) All the Damned tracks are on Sessions Of The Damned (CD, Dutch East India, 1993; Strange Fruit, 1998)


[edit] Tracklisting

  • XTC: Are You Receiving Me? (single) Virgin
  • The Damned: Neat, Neat, Neat (Peel session)
  • King Short Shirt: Unity (LP – Wadadlie Rock) A & B
  • The Clash: Tommy Gun (LP - Give 'Em Enough Rope) CBS
  • Wire: On Returning (Peel session)
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd: Down South Jukin’ (LP – Skynyrd’s First And . . . Last) MCA
  • M: Moderne Man (single) MCA
  • Burning Spear: Nyah Keith (LP – Marcus’ Children) Burning Spear
  • The Damned: Stab Your Back (Peel session)
  • The Skids: Night And Day (EP – Wide Open) Virgin
  • George Thorogood & The Destroyers: Baby, Please Set A Date (LP - Move It On Over)
  • Wire: Mutual Friend (Peel session)
  • Can: She Brings The Rain (LP – Cannibalism) United Artists
  • The Undertones: Teenage Kicks (single) Good Vibrations
  • Flying Lizards: All Guitars (single – B-side of Summertime Blues) Virgin
  • Kleenex: Ain’t You (single) Sunrise
  • The Damned: I Fall (Peel session)
  • 999: Feeling All Right With The Crew / Out Of Reach / Subterfuge (LP – Separates) United Artists
  • Wire: The Other Window (Peel session)
  • PragVEC: Wolf (EP - Bits) Spec
  • Capital Letters: Smoking My Ganja (12-inch single) Greensleeves
  • Siouxsie & The Banshees: Carcass (LP – The Scream) Polydor
  • The Damned: So Messed Up (Peel session)
  • The Residents: The Making Of A Soul (LP – Not Available) Ralph
  • Roy Hill: I Like, I Like, I Like (single) Arista
  • Wire: Indirect Inquiries (Peel session)
  • The Damned: New Rose (Peel session)
  • Prince Far I: So Long (LP – Long Life) Virgin


[edit] File

Name
  • 1978-10-31.mp3
Length
  • 01.58.55
Other
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