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Name
  • John Peel's Music On BFBS
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1986-02-15-22
Comments
  • "This is John Peel's Music On BFBS, your musical host from coast to coast: that's provided of course that you're stationed somewhere that has a coast."
  • According to the taper, the show date inscribed on the tape inlay is when he finished the recording, the Tuesday repeat of the previous Thursday's show. However dating for the wiki will be based on the date of the Eddie Berlin tapes, as these are complete, and mainly from the original broadcasts.
  • JP is looking forward to seeing Fuzzbox in Nottingham in a couple of weeks' time.

Sessions[]

  • None

Tracklisting[]

15 February 1986 (BFBS) (continued from Peel 028 (BFBS))

(JP: 'Ah, there's a lot of it about.')
(JP: 'I want you to have that memorised by next week, when I'll have two more tracks for you.')

15 February 1986 (BFBS) (this repeat 18 February)

(JP: 'According to my correspondents, that's the sound of young and unemployed Switzerland. I must admit, I didn't know there was such a thing as unemployment in Switzerland, but apparently there is.')

22 February 1986 (BFBS)

(JP: 'Sorry, I was poking my ear while that went on, in case you could hear some strange rustlings in the background. I always like the smell of earwax very much. My children do as well, so it's obviously hereditary. It's something that's always appealed to me enormously. I think it's important that I pass these things on to you, though, because you may be missing out on one of life's more enriching experiences.')

22 February 1986 (BFBS)

(JP: 'The first letter I opened this week just says, "Many thanks for not playing any of my requests nor answering any of my letters in the last month." I apologise that I'm a bit late with the mail and so on, but obviously a fair amount of it does come in, not just to these programmes.In fact, these letters for some reason seem to get priority, 'cos I put them in a special place at home which is sort of like closer to where I do me work than where the other mail goes. A lot of mail comes in for the programmes that I do domestically, fifty or sixty letters a day. I mean nothing like 10,000 like the stuff you read in the papers, but enough, and along with like listening to records and tapes and so forth, it's not always possible to keep up lengthy correspondences, although one does one's best. This particular weekend, I've not been able to answer any of the mail because of the necessity of earning a living, which has taken me to Nottingham and Glasgow and Huddersfield, and then Sunday night I very selfishly get introduced to my children. They're always pleased to see me.') [2]

File[]

Name
  • Peel 029
Length
  • 00:47:32
Other
  • Many thanks to Dirk.
Available
  • Mooo
Footnotes
  1. Later to become Dinosaur Jr..
  2. This doubtless refers in part to the Valentine's disco in Glasgow on February 14.
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