Tuesday, June 30, 2015

John Peel 17th March 1991

Not a complete show but still well worth your time. Featuring session tracks from The Jesus Lizard and Ugly Music Show.


Paul Leary - Dulheart Down The Road (Rough Trade)
Ugly Music Show - The Pie Is The Limit (Session)
The Shamen - Hyperreal {Billy Bob Orbit Mix] (One Little Indian)
Les Hi Fives - Nako Lela (Philips)
Tad - Crane's Cafe (Sub Pop)
The Jesus Lizard - Wheelchair (Session)
Kid Capri - News Story (Cold Chillin')
Bleach - Bethesda (Way Cool)
Steel Pole Bath Tub - Pirate 5 (Tupelo)
Tricky Disco - Flypaper (Warp)
The Fall - Edinburgh Man (Cog Sinister/Fontana)

Monday, June 29, 2015

John Peel - 28th July 1977

Featuring sessions from Chelsea and Chris Foster. Apologies for the surface noise on this recording which sometimes sounds like Peel is attempting a broadcast from the summit of a large hill in a blizzard.


Jeff Beck - Blue Wind (Epic)
Neil Young - Like A Hurricane (Reprise)
Chelsea - No Admission (Session)
Jonothan Richman And The MOdern Lovers - Dodge Veg O Matic (Beserkley)
Chris Foster - The Golden Glove (Session)
Little Bob Story - All Or Nothing (Vertigo)
The Small Faces - Lookin' For A Love (Atlantic)
The Killjoys - Naive (Raw)
Garland Jeffreys - Wild In The Streets (A&M)
Chelsea - Right To Work (Session)
Chris Foster - Lady Maisrey (Session)
Elvis Costello - Claim It On Cain (Stiff)
Elvis Costello - Alison (Stiff)
Elvis Costello - Sneaky Feelings (Stiff)

Thursday, June 25, 2015

John Peel 7th May 1969

Featuring tracks from the debut Ivor Cutler session.


Leonard Cohen - A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes (CBS)
Kantele Music (BBC Archives)
Ivor Cutler - Trouble Trouble (Session)
The Who - Christmas (Track)
Ivor Cutler - An Old Pontoon (Session)
Ivor Cutler - Bounce, Bounce, Bounce (Session)
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - ? (Decca)
The Who - Go To The Mirror (Track)
The Shepherd Song (BBC Archives)
Ivor Cutler - There And Back Via Sweden (Session)
Ivor Cutler - In My Room There Sits A Box (Session)
Mikis Theodorakis and Maria Farandouri - O Andonis
Ivor Cutler - Beatrice And Her Dirty Knees (Session)
Merrill E. Moore - Rock Rockola
Ivor Cutler - An Indirect Love Poem (Session)
Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five - Strutting With Some Barbecue
The Who - The Overture (Track)

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

John Peel 13th September 1983

Featuring sessions from 3D and Popticians.


New Order - Ceremony (Factory)
3D - Panatau (Session)
Dub Syndicate - Drilling Equipment (ROIR)
Modern English - I Melt With You (4AD)
Popticians - Hello Everybody (Session)
Tools You Can Trust - Working And Shopping (Red Energy Dynamo)
Tools You Can Trust - The Work Ahead Of Us (Red Energy Dynamo)
The Undertones - Girls That Don't Talk (Sire)
3D - Brave Boys Paradise (Session)
Serious Drinking - TV Song (Upright)
Dyke And The Blazers - Uhh (Kent)
The Fall - Kicker Conspiracy (Rough Trade)
The Fall - Container Drivers (Rough Trade)
The Fall - Wings (Rough Trade)
Popticians - Mobile Home (Session)
Alton Ellis - Can I Change My Mind (Heartbeat)
3D - Stay (Session)
This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren (4AD)
Augustus Pablo - Mr Bassie (Greensleeves)
Xmal Deutschland - Incubus Succubus II (4AD)
Popticians - Song About Losing Your Glasses (Session)
Public Image - Blue Water (Virgin)
Rubber Rodeo - The Good The Bad And The Ugly (Eat)
Cocteau Twins - Shallow Then Halo (4AD)

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

John Peel 13th October 1990

The last section of another great show featuring The Orb and Boo Radleys in session.


The Orb - Backside Of The Moon (Session)
The Orb - Into The 4th Dimension (Session)
The Fastbacks - Trouble Sleeping (Blaster!)
Happy Flowers - Call Me Pudge (Homestead)
Daniel Kamau - Mumbi Ni Wakwa (Earthworks)
NAtion Of Ulysses - Sound Of Young America (Dischord/K)
Karen Black Neiborachie (Vital Music)
Icky Joey - Liberace (CZ)
Euro-K - Mr Do (Profile)
Boo Radleys - Aldous (Session)
Brutal Bill And Anthony Acid - [It's Got Me] In A SPell (City Limits)
Screaming Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You (Epic)

Monday, June 22, 2015

John Peel 17th April 2001

Featuring Alfie in session.


Ballboy - They'll Hang Flags From Cranes Upon My Wedding Day (SL)
Opiate - Hickory (Hobby Industries)
Status Quo - Down The Dust Pipe (Pye)
Alfie - Don't Be Blue (Session)
Pablo Gargano - My Noise (Recover Records)
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - I Love You, You Big Dummy (Straight)
Medina Green - Full Court Press (Realized)
The Fall - Eat Y'self Fitter (Rough Trade)
Alfie - Masquerade Parade (Session)
Dany Engobo - Coeurs Brise No.1 (Engobo)
Ash - Walking Barefoot (Infectious)
Pascal - Looking Back (Frontline)
Freddie Martin And His Orchestra - Dance Of The Sugarplum Fairies
Alfie - You Make No Bones (Session)
Winston Edwards And Blackbeard - Downing Street Rock (Studio 16)
Nora O'connor - Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again (Bloodshot)
Corvin Dalek - The Athiest (MFS/Flesh Records)
The White Stripes - Why Can't You Be Nicer To Me (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
Nettle - Duende (Soot)
Alfie - Bends (Session)
LOvers - Little Girl Blues (Boobytrap)
Gumba Gumba Guys - Sideways Jive (Renown)
Dean Facer - Just Because (Action)
Hellacopters - Hopeless Case Of A Kind In Denial (Sweet Nothing)

Thursday, June 18, 2015

John Peel - 2nd June 1991

Featuring sessions from Curve and Exit Condition.


Babes In Toyland - Mad Pilot (Twin Tone)
Sister O.M. Terrell - The Bible's Right
Those Americans - The Right Side
Scorpio Rising - The Strangest Things Turn You On (Chapter 22)
Son Of Bazerk - N41
Elmore James - Baby, Please Set A Date (Charlie)
Dr Phibes And The House Of Wax Equations - Mr Phantasy
Exit Condition - Strong And True (Session)
Daddy Yod - Ragamuffin (Bakchich)
LFO - We Are Back (Warp)
Trashmen - Bad News (Sundays)
Curve - The Coast Is Clear (Session)
Curve - The Colour Hurts (Session)
Curve - No Escape From Heaven (Session)
Curve - Ten Little Girls (Session)
Bunny Rugs, Dennis Brown and Cocoa Tea - Warning (Greensleeves)
Little Jimmy With The Sparrows - Snoring
Jad Fair - The Making Of The Album (Seminal Twang)
Exit Condition - Slow Reflex (Session)
Moonshake - Coming (Session)
Code 6 - Quad One (Nu Grooves)
Cellophane Ceiling - Wise To Use (Main Vein)
The Blue Orchids - Diamond Age (Is)
The Ragga Twins - Juggling (Shut Up And Dance)
Fudge Tunnel - Bed Crumbs (Earache)
The Orb - Perpetual Dawn (Big Life)
Brighter - Christmas (Sarah)
Papa Wemba - Makili Ngali
Exit Condition - Toiler On The Sea (Session)
Che - Che Washes Whiter
High Risk Group - Dull Stare (Blaster!)
Dennis Brown, Brian and Tony Gold, Twitch - Hypocrite Corner (Greensleeves)
Primal Scream - Higher Than The Sun (Creation)
Jimmy Bryant - ? (See For Miles)
Bob - Nothing For Something (House Of Teeth)
Joey Negro - Feel It (Z Records)

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

John Peel 20th December 1988

Featuring session tracks from Fflaps, A Witness, Datblygu, Plant Bach Ofnus, Stella Chiweshe, The House Of Love and Extreme Noise Terror along with the first slice of the 1988 Festive Fifty, numbers 50-42


The House Of Love - Nothing To Me (Session)
Fflaps - Llosg Llech(Session)
Stella Chiweshe - Kana Ndikafa (Session)
Extreme Noise Terror - Take The Strain (Session)
Plant Bach Ofnus - Awst (Session)
A Witness - I Love You Mr Disposable Razors (Session)
Datblygu - Cristion Yn Y Kibbutz (Session)
The House Of Love - Plastic (Session)
Fflaps - Y Dyn Bun (Session)
Extreme Noise Terror - No Threat (Session)
Plant Bach Ofnus - Pydredd (Session)
A Witness - Helicopter Tealeaf (Session)
Extreme Noise Terror - Propaganda (Session)
Datblygu Gwlad Arfy Nghefn (Session)
Stella Chiweshe - Vana Vako Vopera (Session)
The House Of Love - Blind (Session)
Extreme Noise Terror - Only In It For The Music Part 3 (Session)
Public Enemy - Night Of The Living Baseheads (Def Jam)
The Wedding Present - Don't Laugh (Reception)
Happy Mondays - Wrote For Luck (Factory)
The Darling Buds - Shame On You (Native)
The Primitives - Crash (RCA)
Pixies - Where Is My Mind (4AD)
Pixies - Bone Machine (4AD)
New Order - Fine Time (Factory)
Mega City Four - Miles Apart (Primitive)
The Flatmates - Shimmer (Subway Organization)

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

John Peel 16th March 1991

Featuring sessions from First Offence and Mass.



Curve - 10 Little Girls (Anxious)
Bill Haley And The Comets - Ten Little Indians
The Fall - So What About It (Cog Sinister/Fontana)
First Offence - Three Steps (Session)
Mass - Sado Seduction (Session)
The Fastbacks - Impatience (Sub Pop)
NInjaman - Last Of The Warning (Digital B)
Bongwater - Nick Cave Dolls (Shimmy Disc)
Hemi - Last Northern Train (Big Money Inc)
Oman Santana - Come On And Jam (First Base)
Top - She's Got All The World (Island)
The Fastest Group Alive - B Side (Valiant)
The Four Brothers - Mazita Nezviito (Gramma/Kumusha)
Half Man Half Biscuit with Margi Clark - Je Ne Regrette Rien (Probe Plus)
First Offence - A Brotherhood Of Man (Session)
John Doonan - The Ace And Deuce Of Piping (Leader)
Howling Wolf - Going Down Slow
Smashing Orange - Sidewinder (Native)
Mass - Someone Else (Session)
Cutty Ranks - Grudgeville (Shocking Vibes)
The Jesus Lizard - South Mouth (Touch And Go)
Test Department - New World Order (Ministry Of Power)
Idora - ? (MCR)
Brouharia - Demoniaco
Outspoken - Reinforced (New Age/Conversion)
The Wanted - WO1 (DAL)
Levellers 5 - Warning Shadows (Probe Plus)
First Offence - Money (Session)
Paul Leary - Indians Storm The Government (Rough Trade)
Shava Kahamba Et L'Espirit Sante (Permission) (Saxone)
The Fall - Idiot Joy Showland (Cog Sinister/Fontana)
Mass - Medusa (Session)
Mighty Clouds Of Joy - Use Me Lord
Mad B'Stard - Trance (Omen)
Steel Pole Bathtub - Quark (Tupelow)
Wayne Wonder and Cutty Ranks - Lambada (Penthouse)
Hed - Reach For The Sun (Exploding Cow)
Genius - True Fresh - MC (Cold Chillin')
Rein Sanction - F TRain (Sub Pop)
Catherine Wheel - Love And Justice (Pagan)

Catherine Wheel - Upside Down (Wilde Club)
First Offence - Drugs (Session)
Mass - Unnamed (Session)
The Kingstonians - Rumble Rumble (Attack)
The Field Mice - September's Not So Far Away (Sarah)

Monday, June 15, 2015

John Peel - 27th June 2001

Featuring The Strokes in session.


Briefs - C'mon Squash Me Like A Bug (Sub Pop)
Wagon Christ - Ataride (Ninja Tune)
The White Stripes - Aluminium (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
The Strokes - The Modern Age (Session)
Morgan Heritage - Jah Revive I (Penthouse)
Gnac - In The Bumpy Air (Octaine Grammophon)
Anthony Atcherley - Hear The Rhythm (Audio Rehab)
Sam Lightning Hopkins - Long Way From Home (West Side Recordings)
The Ramones - Judy Is A Punk (Warner Bros)
The Strokes - Hard To Explain (Session)
New Order - Crystal (White Label)
Klute - We R The Ones (Certificate 18)
Tennessee Twins - These Thoughts Are Occupied (Mint)
Herman Dune - By The Door Of The Temple (Shrimper)
Rechenzentrum - Strategie Der Steine (Shitkatapult)
Half Man Half Biscuit - On Passing Lilac Urine (Probe Plus)
Lionel Hampton And His Sextet - Three Quarter Boogie (HMV)
Kettle - These Birds Around Meadows (Mouthmoth)
Ronnie Ronalde - I Miss My Swiss My Swiss Miss Misses Se (EMI)
Jahmali And Jahmel - Wipe The Tears (Penthouse)
Naco Zumbi - O Caranguejo Da Praia Das Virtudes (Stern's Brasil)
The White Stripes - Red Death At 6.14 (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
The Slits - Love And Romance (Strange Fruit)
The Strokes - Someday (Session)
100 Pets - Further Away (Pickled Egg)
Two Lone Swordsmen - It's Not The Worst [Lali Puna Remix] (Warp)
Ha;f Man Half Biscuit - Vatican Broadside (Probe Plus)
Prefuse 73 - Life Death (Warp)

Thursday, June 11, 2015

John Peel 12th October 1978

Featuring sessions from Punishment Of Luxury and Dr Feelgood.

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Siouxsie And The Banshees - Suburban Relapse (Polydor)
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Switch (Polydor)
Wishbone Ash - Baby, The Angels Were Here (MCA)
Dr Feelgood - Sugar Shaker (Session)
XTC - Battery Brides (Virgin)
XTC - A Dictionary Of Modern Marriage (Virgin)
The Revolutionaries - Doberman Skank (Cash And Carry)
Punishment Of Luxury - Funk Me (Session)
Dr Feelgood - Down At The Doctors (Session)
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks (Good Vibrations)
Rory Gallagher - Brute Force And Ignorance (Chrysalis)
The Buzzcocks - Operators Manual (United Artists)
Rockers All Stars - Tubby's Special (Rockers)
Penetration - Nostalgia (Virgin)
The Edge - Macho Man (Albion)
John Cooper Clark - I Don't Want To Be Nice (CBS)
Lene Lovich - Lucky Numbers (Stiff)
Lene Lovich - Sleeping Beauty (Stiff)
Lene Lovich - Home (Stiff)




Wednesday, June 10, 2015

John Peel - 3rd February 1998

Featuring tracks from the one and only session by Lillian (although John refer's to them as Gillian at the start of the tape).


Environmental Science - The Day The Zac Stood Still Pt.2 (Fused And Bruised)
The Ruins - Phone Numero (Skin Graft)
Rudolf Rocker - Geeda Boor (Mook)
Lillian - Teenage Whore (Session)
Banbust - Banbust (Craft)
Dump - Clarity (Plink Man)
Nought - Cough Cap Kitty Cat (Shifty Disco)
Finitribe - Sleazy Rider (Infectious)
Lillian - Peroxide Beauties (Session)
Fuck - Ballet High (Vinyl Tribe)
H2S0 - Little Soul (White Label)

Tuesday, June 09, 2015

John Peel - Rock Week, 5th April 1975

There seems to be a serious dearth of programs from 1975. On this one you'll hear Peel grilling Mick Ronson for his opinions on the debut lp by former Mott The Hoople bandmate Ian Hunter which he played on and co-produced.


Ian Hunter - Once Bitten, Twice Shy (CBS)
Ian Hunter - Who Do You Love (CBS)
Ian Hunter - Lounge Lizard (CBS)
Ian Hunter - Boy (CBS)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - On The Hunt (MCA)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Saturday Night Special (MCA)

Monday, June 08, 2015

John Peel 3rd March 1991

Featuring session tracks from Greenhouse and June Tabor And The Oysterband.


Static Seekers - Let Dougie Take Over (Access)
Fritz - Fly Mountain (Toejam)
Sonic Youth - White Kross (Promo)
The Field Mice - September's Not So Far Away (Sarah)
Sun Kings - Heem To Pazzuzu (Creed)
Crane - A Matter Of Time (Mule)
Exit Condition - Firebird (Meantine)
Ice Cube - The Product (4th and Broadway)
Greenhouse - Her Too (Session)
The Night Kings - Dirty Work (Estrus)
Orchestra George Vankou - Aninvitita [Maramois Tu] (Electrecord)
The Flaming Lips - Stand In Line (Restless)
June Tabor And The Oysterband - White Rabbit (Session)
Gregory Isaacs - I Am Gregory (African Museum)
Family - Overboard (Pop God)

Thursday, June 04, 2015

John Peel, 1st January 1979

The first program of 1979 including the final part of the 1978 Festive 50.


Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden (Session)
Reggae Regular - Not Any More (Session)
Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Pump It Up (Session)
The Boomtown Rats - [Watch Out For] The Normal People (Session)
De Danann - Trip To Durrow/The Maid Behind The Bar (Session)
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Carcass (Session)
Elvis Costello And The Attractions - [I Don't Want To Go To] Chelsea (Session)
Reggae Regular - Where Is Jah? (Session)
The Boomtown Rats - Living In An Island (Session)
De Danann - Love Will You Marry Me (Session)
Elvis Costello And The Attractions - You Belong To Me (Session)
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Overground (Session)
The Boomtown Rats - Like Clockwork (Session)
Reggae Regular - Weed Stalk (Session)
De Danann - Tom Billy's Jig/Sean Ryan's Jig/The Sandmount Reel/The Clochar Reel (Session)
Elvis Costello And The Attractions - The Beat (Session)
The Boomtown Rats - Me And Howard Hughes (Session)
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Helter Skelter (Session)
Reggae Regular - Fools Game/Fools Game Dub (Session)
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks (Good Vibrations)
Public Image Ltd - Public Image (Virgin)
The Buzzcocks - What Do I Get (United Artists)
The Clash - [White Man] In Hammersmith Palais (CBS)
The Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (Virgin)
Magazine - Shot By Both Sides (Virgin)
Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device (Rough Trade)
The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen (Virgin)
The Clash - Complete Control (CBS)
The Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK (Virgin)

Wednesday, June 03, 2015

John Peel - 6th March 1968

This is (or was) the first ever John Peel's Nightride show broadcast on 6th March 1968 and including session recordings from The Incredible String Band.


Misunderstood - I Can Take You To The Sun (Fontana)
Incredible String Band - You Get Brighter (Session)
? - A Joyful Northern Air
Adrian Mitchell - Take Stalk Between Teeth, Pull Stalk From Blossom, Throw Blossom Over Arm Towards Enemy, Lie Flat And Await Explosion [Poetry Reading]
Iron Butterfly - Possession (Atco)
The End - Shades Of Orange (Decca)
Incredible String Band - All Too Much For Me (Session)
Domenico Scarlatti - Sonata In E Minor
Incredible String Band - Ducks On A Pond (Session)
Adrian Mitchell - To You [Poetry Reading]
Adrian Mitchell - Prince Of Wailers [Poetry Reading]
Simon And Garfunkel - Sparrow (Columbia)
Fleetwood Mac - Cold Black Night (Blue Horizon)
Tulana Jinjote Ragum - ?
Incredible String Band - I Bid You Goodnight (Session)

Tuesday, June 02, 2015

John Peel 16th February 1991

Featuring sessions from Moonflowers and Ned's Atomic Dustbin.


Dinosaur Jr - Blowing It (Warner Bros)
Dinosaur Jr - I Live For That Look (Warner Bros)
Velvet - Hold Me (Tam Tam)
Rein Sanction - Creel (Sub Pop)
Moonflowers - My Baby (Session)
Ron Holden - My Babe (Donnel)
Downtown Science - Radioactive (Def Jam)
Happy Mondays - Loose Fit (Factory)
N'gouma Lokito Et Les Soukouss Stars - Animata (Toure' Jim's Records)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - What Gives My Son (Session)
The Shamen - Hyperreal (One Little Indian)
Pica Huss - Middle East Song (Data Panic)
Ride - Sennen (Creation)
Apache Indian - Movie Over India (City To City)
Rose Rose - ? (In Your Face)
Moonflowers - Groove Power (Session)
Curve - Ten Little Girls (Anxious)
Major Problems - Manslaughter (Nu Groove)
Orchids - Newly Wed (Chess)
The Orchids - How Does That Feel (Sarah)
Active Minds - Dancing On Your Graves (Looney Tunes)
Dock - Mind Blowing (Ruthless)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Throwing Things (Session)
Gregory Isaacs - I Am Gregory (African Museum)

Monday, June 01, 2015

John Peel 9th February 1991

Featuring sessions from The Wedding Present and Datblygu


Silverfish - Pink And Lovely (Creation)
King Sun - Be Black (Profile)
Unsane - Vandal X (Sub Pop)
Candi And The Backbeat - The World Just Keeps On Turning (IRS)
Naked City - Dead Spot (Earache)
Datblygu - Slebog Bywydeg (Session)
Ride - Unfamiliar (Creation)
Major Problems - Manslaughter (Nu Groove)
The Gibson Brothers - Broke Down Engine (Stilbreeze)
Peter Metro - Boysie (Penthouse)
Julian Cope - I Have Always Been Here Before (WEA International)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Happy (Sony)
First Offence - Government Decides (Blip)
Th' Faith Healers - God You Move (Too Pure)
Datblygu - Nid Chwiwgi Pwdin Gwaed (Session)
Captain Beefheart - Blabber N' Smoke (Reprise)
Definition Of Sound - Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Circa)
The Wedding Present - Dalliance (Session)
The Wedding Present - Blonde (Session)
The Wedding Present - Niagara (Session)
The Wedding Present - Heather (Session)
Wodada And Natty Pablo - Front Room (Black Lion)
East Village - Circles (Heavenly)