(JP: 'Looking into the next studio where Nicky Campbell is being filmed reminds me of why it is that I kind of opted out of television. Not that there were millions of people beating a path to my door, saying, "Hey, we really want you to be on...", whatever their programme was, you know, but at the same time it's very time-consuming. He's surrounded now by clean-cut and personable young men in dark blue suits, who every once in a while switch on enormously bright lights that make me jump.')
(JP then namechecks the people who have written to Buttsteak, one of whom is Aidan Moffat, later of Arab Strap: John says that if these people write in, they will probably get a copy. Aidan did, and he did (see The Peel Sessions, p. 143).
Happy Flowers: 'Ruckwerts Essen Vetzt' (Peel Session) (the title apparently means 'Backwards Eating Now') ) 11 July 1990
(JP: 'We've closed the books at 92 in our exciting Noiseville competition. I've finished all of today's mail, except for the special sack of mail of course that arrives each day which we sort out from people who want to exchange body fluids with me.')