(JP: 'Well, hi there fans, it's John Peel, John Peel's Music from BFBS and as always two hours of rousing music for you. The first record this week is in code, though: bow bow dit, bow bow dit.')
Fall: 'Edinburgh Man (LP-Shift-Work)' (Cog Sinister/Fontana)
(JP: 'I particularly care for the line, "Keep me away from the Festival." I've only once been to the Edinburgh Festival: I'm sure there are very fine things that go on there, said he evasively, but I hated it, I must admit, because everywhere you went there were dickheads dressed as jesters coming up trying to get you to go to some awful play written by a sociology lecturer from Leeds Polytechnic. They really made your life miserable: you couldn't walk about in freedom without being accosted.')