John Peel - 28th December 1978

Featuring numbers 25-11 of the Festive Fifty of 1978 along with session tracks from Magazine, Alternative TV, Penetration and The Slits.

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Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me (Session)

Penetration - Future Daze (Session)

Alternative TV - Release The Natives (Session)

Magazine - Touch And Go (Session)

Magazine - My Mind Ain't So Open (Session)

Slits - Instant Hit (Session)

Penetration - Movement (Session)

Penetration - Stone Heroes (Session)

Alternative TV - Nasty Little Lonely (Session)

Magazine - Definitive Gaze (Session)

Slits - FM (Session)

Penetration - Vision (Session)

1978 Festive Fifty

25. Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives (Stiff)

24. Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (Polydor)

23. Clash - Police And Thieves (CBS)

22. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden (Polydor)

21. Van Morrison - Madame George (Warner Bros.)

20. Rezillos - I Can't Stand My Baby (Sensible)

19. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird (MCA)

18. Sex Pistols - Holidays In The Sun (Virgin)

17. Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet (CBS)

16. David Bowie - Heroes (RCA)

15. The Clash - White Riot (CBS)

14. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (Atlantic)

13. The Damned - New Rose (Stiff)

12. Buzzcocks - Boredom (New Hormones)

11. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster (Rough Trade)

John Peel - 27th December 1978

The second 1978 Festive 50 show which also features sessions from X-Ray Spex, Buzzcocks and Steel Pulse.

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X-Ray Spex - I Am a Poseur (Session)

Buzzcocks - Noise Annoys (Session)

Steel Pulse - Macka Splaff (Session)

X-Ray Spex - Art-I-Ficial (Session)

Buzzcocks - Walking Distance (Session)

Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution (Session)

X-Ray Spex - Identity (Session)

Buzzcocks - Late for the Train (Session)

Steel Pulse - Jah Pickney - R.A.R. (Session)

X-Ray Spex - Genetic Engineering (Session)

1978 Festive Fifty

40. The Stranglers - London Lady (United Artists)

39. The Who - My Generation (Brunswick)

38. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Overground (Polydor)

37. Elvis Costello - Alison (Stiff)

36. Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (CBS)

35. The Motors - Dancing the Night Away (Virgin)

34. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Helter Skelter (Polydor)
33. The Stranglers - No More Heroes (United Artists)

32. The Stranglers - Hanging Around (United Artists)

31. Derek And The Dominoes - Layla (Polydor)

30. Buzzcocks - Moving Away from the Pulsebeat (United Artists)

29. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond [parts I - V] (Harvest)

28. Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing (Vertigo)

27. Ian Dury - Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll (Stiff)

26. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (Columbia)

John Peel - 26th December 1978

This was the first of four shows counting down the 1978 Festive 50.

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The Misunderstood - I Can Take You To The Sun (Fontana)

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (Track Record)

Little Feat - Long Distance Love (Warner Bros.)

The Doors - Riders On The Storm (Elektra)

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (Parlophone)

The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones)

Poco - Rose Of Cimarron (ABC)

Free - All Right Now (Island)

Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (Track Record)

Derek And The Dominos - Layla (Polydor)

Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (Atlantic)

1978 Festive Fifty

50. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Metal Postcard [Mittageisen] (Polydor)

49. Thin Lizzy - Emerald (Vertigo)

48. Neil Young - Like A Hurricane (Reprise)

47. Flying Lizards - Summertime Blues (Virgin)

46. Bob Dylan - Desolation Row (Columbia)

45. The Sex Pistols - EMI (Virgin)

44. The Jam - In the City (Polydor)

43. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling (Polydor)

42. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Mirage (Polydor)

41. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Switch (Polydor)

John Peel - 20th December 2001

A fantastic Christmas show broadcast live from Peel Acres with session tracks from Lianne Hall, Camera Obscura, Cowcube and Melys

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Mud - Lonely This Christmas (RAK)

Lightnin' Hopkins - Merry Christmas (Bluesville)

Hellacopters - Cold Night For Alligators (White Jazz)

Lianne Hall - In The Bleak Midwinter / Soul Kid (Session)

Human League - All I Ever Wanted [Alter Ego Remix] (Klang Elektronik)

Buck Owens And The Buckeroos - Blue Christmas Lights (Capitol)

Peel Acres Choir - Ding Dong Merrily On High

Clinic - Welcome (Domino)

Dreadzone - Digital Mastermind (Ruff Life)

The Hottentots - Flame of Desire

Bellringers - Hark The Herald Angels Sing / Come All Ye Faithful / I Saw Three Ships

The Uniforms - This Is This, This Is Nothing Else

Camera Obscura - Happy New Year / Little Donkey (Session)

Tamlins And Trinity - Silent Night (MC Productions)

Peel Acres Choir - The Holly And The Ivy

Hefner - All I'll Ever Need (Too Pure)

Cowcube - Christmas Record (Session)

Cornershop - Lessons Learned From Rocky 1 To Rocky III [Cowcube Remix] (Wiiija)

Peel Acres Choir - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Low - Just Like Christmas (Jeepster)

Maloko: In the Midnight Hour  London)

Melys - Chinese Whispers / Silent Night (Sessions)

John Fahey - Silent Night (Ace)

DJ Rupture - Peonie Peonie (Soot)

Peel Acres Choir - Deck The Halls

DJ Shufflemaster - Annex 4 [Fourthinter-Narita Remix] (Tresor)

Okkervil River - Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas (Jagjaguwar)

Otis Redding - Ole Man Trouble (Volt)

John Peel - 19th December 1984

A Festive Fifty show featuring session repeats from Ivor Cutler, Men They Couldn't Hang, Folk Devils and Guana Batz.

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Men They Couldn't Hang - Green Fields Of France (Session)

Guana Batz - Night Watch (Session)

Folk Devils - Broken Head (Session)

Ivor Cutler - Jelly Mountain (Session)

1984 Festive Fifty: Numbers 40-31

=39. Cocteau Twins - Beatrix (4AD)

=39. Flesh For Lulu - Subterraneans (Polydor)

38. Cocteau Twins - Pandora (4AD)

37. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Upside Down (Creation)

36. The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain (Rough Trade)

35. Robert Wyatt - Biko (Virgin)

34. Berntholer - My Suitor (Blue Feather)

33. This Mortal Coil - Another Day (4AD)

32. Yeah Yeah Noh - Bias Binding (In Tape)

31. Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse (ZTT)

John Peel - 15th December 1996

No sessions in this show just plenty of great tunes.

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Voices Of Kwahn - Colonist Dreamer (Swarffinger Records)

Quads - There Must Thousands (Big Bear Records)

DJ Hyperactive - untitled (Planet Of Drums)

Al Ferrier And His Boppin’ Billies - Why Doubt My Love (Goldband)

Delphium - Deepwoundsbleedthorns (Outside Records)

John Doonan And John Wright - Gilligan’s Apples/The Prize Jig (Globestyle)

Prolapse - Flexed (Lissy’s Records)

Pavement - Painted Soldiers (Matador)

Soundman - Shatterproof (Image Productions)

Tshala Muana - Banda Yango (Sterns)

Natacha Atlas - Marifnaash (Nation Records)

Johnny Guitar Watson - Those Lonely Lonely Nights (Ace Records)

Adventures In Stereo - There Was A Time (Creeping Bent)

John Peel - 22nd February 1979

Featuring The Monochrome Set in session.

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The Jam - Strange Town (Polydor)

Protex - Listening In (Good Vibrations)

Tom Robinson Band - Bully For You (EMI)

Monochrome Set - Noise (Session)

Lew Lewis - Lucky Seven (Stiff)

Guy Mitchell with Mitch Miller And His Orchestra - Cloud Lucky Seven (Columbia)

The Dodgems - Lord Lucan is Missing (Attrix)

Bob Dylan - From A Buick 6 (CBS)

Mekons - Where Were You (Fast Product)

Joe Jackson - Got The Time (A+M)

The Monochrome Set: Espresso (Session)

The Clash - Pressure Drop (CBS)

Toots And The Maytals - Pressure Drop (Beverley's Records)

Betty Davis - Shut Off The Light (Island)

The Teardrop Explodes - Sleeping Gas (Zoo)

Those Naughty Lumps - Iggy Pop's Jacket (Zoo)

Iggy Pop - I'm Sick Of You! (Bomp!)

Will Dandy And The Dandylettes - Sonny Boy / Oh Mein Papa (Dandelion)

The Monochrome Set - Ici Les Enfants / Fat Fun (Session)

Leyton Buzzards - Through With You (Chrysalis)

Fish Turned Human - Here Come The Nuns (Sequel)

The Nuns - Savage (Bomp)

The Shadows - The Savage (Columbia) 

Stiff Little Fingers - Johnny Was (Rough Trade)

The Undertones - Get Over You (Sire)

Korgis - Young 'N' Russian (Rialta)

Stackridge - Anyone For Tennis (MCA)

Skids - Scale (Virgin)

Monochrome Set - Love Goes Down The Drain (Session)

John Cooper Clarke - Gimmix! Play Loud (Epic)

Eno, Moebius, Roedelius - Oil (Sky)

Spizzoil - Solarisation [Shun] (Rough Trade)

Skids - TV Stars (Virgin)

John Peel - 13th December 1989

Featuring More Fiends in session.

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Space Juniors - Chewin' (Juniorville Music)
Alliance - Thoughts Of You [Club Mix] (Revenge)
More Fiends - Slug Juice (Session)
Dub Sex - Kamina (Scam)
Admiral Tibet / Shabba Ranks - Tell Me Which One (Music Works)
Half Man Half Biscuit - Architecture, Morality, Ted And Alice (Probe Plus)
Unsane NYC - Burn (Treehouse)
William Ravenscroft: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Power House: Kenny's Jazz (Dope Mix) (12" - 2) Nu Groove NG-030
More Fiends - Yellow Spades (Session)
Four Brothers - Pasi Pano Pane Sviedzo (Cooking Vinyl)
When People Were Shorter And Lived Near The Water - Broomstick Cowboy (Shimmy Disc Europe)
Dogbowl - I Had A Dream Of The Plague (Shimmy Disc)
David Shaw - Faded Flags Of Glory (Confection)
Inspiral Carpets - You Can't Take The Truth (Cow)
Gregory Isaacs - It's Christmas Time Again (Taurus)
Taking Your Business - Snoopy (Bad Boy)
Walkingseeds Sensory Deprivation Quartet - Hairy Who? (Glass)
More Fiends - Fatty Humps (Session)
Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys - Little Girl, Go And Ask Your Mama

John Peel - 12th December 1989

Featuring The Jesus And Mary Chain in session.

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Meriño Brothers - Riquezas De La Vida (Globe Style)

The Only Ones - Lovers Of Today (Strange Fruit)

Chicken Scratch - Find The Guilty Pig (Community 3)

Jungle Brothers - J. Beez Comin' Through (Warner Bros.)

Gina, Papa Wemba, Evoloko, Mavuela - Melimpa Meliso (Sonodisc)

Extreme Noise Terror - Work For Never (Sink Below)

Blade - Lyrical Maniac (Raw Bass)

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Silverblade (Session)

Social Kaos - Future-Shock (Scam)

The Undertones - Tearproof (Strange Fruit)

Super Cat And Nicodemus - I And I Perrogitive (Wild Apache)

When People Were Shorter And Lived The Water - Watching Scotty Grow (Shimmy Disc Europe)

D Struct - This Is Real (Noize Beat)

Rektüm - Deth Soup (Manic Ears)

The Jesus And Mary Chain -  Here Comes Alice (Session)

Amayenge - Umwana Amonekela Uluchelo (Mondeca)

Microdisney - Sun (Strange Fruit)

John Peel - 1st December 1999

Featuring Murry The Hump in session.

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Frenzal Rhomb - We're Going Out Tonight (Hopeless)

Junior Demus - Get Panic (Greensleeves)

Angelica - Bring Back Her Head (Fantastic Plastic)

Murry The Hump - Cracking Up (Session)

Pacou - Return of the Speaker Buster (Konsequent)

Mum And Dad - The Human Fly (Twisted Nerve)

Badly Drawn Boy - Skidding Out of Control (Twisted Nerve)

DJ Faust - Tracking & Balance (Bomb Hip-Hop)

Ganger - Canopy (Guided Missile)

Inner Circle And Fatman Riddim Section - Too Much War (Blood & Fire)

Murry The Hump - One Fine Day (Session)

Quäker - Porto

Songs: Ohia - Being In Love (Secretly Canadian)

Fly Ashtray - The Twelve Days Of The Week Of Christmas Of Love (Dark Beloved Cloud)

Gang Of Four - At Home [He's A Tourist] (EMI)

Quads - There Must Be Thousands (Big Bear)

Misty In Roots - Man Kind (People Unite)

Freshmen - You've Never Heard Anything Like It (Release)

Quads - When Everything Is Said And Done (Big Bear)

Nagen & Saugen: (12"-Never Trust A Stranger)' (Hörspielmusik)

Murry The Hump - Five (Session)

UI - Ms Lady (Southern)

Shenley Duffus - Rukumbine (Island)

La Monja Enana - Como Lovecraft (Elefant)

Robert Pollard - Strictly Comedy (Fading Captain Series)

Freestyles - Come Back (True Playaz)

Murry The Hump - Kebab Or Shag (Session)

Papa M - Up North Kids (Domino)

Pin-Ups in Exile - Muros Transparentes [Pin-Ups in Exile Mix] (Pomelo)