John Peel - 24th April 1984

Featuring sessions from Del Amitri and Billy Bragg.

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Les Calamités - Toutes Les Nuits (Red Rose)

Del Amitri - Heard Through A Wall (Session)

Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys - The Twin Guitar Special

Eek-A-Mouse - Gunshot A Cry (RAS)

Billy Bragg - St Swithins Day (Session)

The Cramps - You've Got Good Taste (Red Rose)

Jonny Bankcheck - The Runaway (Memo)

Percy Sledge - True Love Travels On A Gravel Road (Charly)

Del Amitri - Crows In The Wheat Field (Session)

Die Zwei - Grapsch [The Communist Party Mix] (Mercury)

Cold Dance - Choice (Xcentric Noise)

Sugar Minott - Frontline (Power House)

Billy Bragg - Lover's Town (Session)

Attrition - Monkey In A Bin (Recording Union)

Kid Thomas - Wail Baby Wail (JSP)

Screaming Tribesmen - Igloo (Sonics)

Minuteman - Voodoo Slaves (Sonics)

Del Amitri - Breaking Bread (Session)

The Dells - My Life Is So Wonderful (Kent)

Golden Palominos - Clean Plate (OAO)

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Love Has Got A Gun (ZTT)

Billy Bragg - The Myth Of Trust (Session)

Mad Professor - Claps Like Thunder (Ariwa)

Sound - Golden Soldiers (Statik Records)

News From Babel - Black Gold (Re)

Orson Family - River Of Desire (Red Rose)

Del Amitri - Deceive Yourself In Ignorant Heaven (Session)

Bobby Foster And His Orchestra - Angel Of Love (Red Lightning)

Billy Bragg - To Have And Have Not (Session)

Folk Devils - Hank Turns Blue (Ganges)

John Peel - 15th June 1991

Featuring session tracks from Billy Bragg and First Offence.

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The Fastbacks - Impatience (Sub Pop)

Catherine Wheel - Shallow (Wilde Club)

Superman And Spiderman - War Disease (Outernational)

Billy Bragg - The Few (Session)

First Offence - A Brotherhood Of Man (Session)
Guana Batz - Werewolf Blues (Anagram)
Goodnight Said Florence - OV (Different Class)
Howlin' Wolf - Shake It For Me (Peerless)
Wig - Just Obscene (Nocturnal)
DJ Dick - Weekend (Low Spirit)
Sioxsie And The Banshees - Fear [Of The Unknown] (Polydor)
Yo Yo Honey - Get It On (Jive)
Inspiral Carpets - St Kilda (Mute)
Mighty Diamonds - Respect Due (Outernational)
Belt - Bad Breed (Self Released)
Moose - Suzanne (Hut)
Billy Bragg - Accident Waiting To Happen (Session)
Moody Boys - Free (Beechwood)
Velvet Crush - Ash And Earth (Seminal Twang)
First Offence - Money (Session)
Butt Steak - House Is A Mess (Merkin)
I Ludicrous - Duller Than (Rodney, Rodney!)
Spitfire - Translucent (Eve)

Altern 8 - Infiltrate 202 (Network)

The Fall - Joker Hysterical Face (Camera)

Tony Rebel - War On Crime (Penthouse)

Circus Lupus - Chinese Nitro (Cubist Productions)

Billy Bragg - Tank Part Salute (Session)

First Offence - Drugs (Session)

Lawnmower Death - Kids Of America (Earache)

Martin Rakitoa Alimanana - King Song (Globestar)

Bhang Revival - One Day (Toxic Shock)

Beats International - Three Foot Skank (Beechwood)

The Thing - Weirdo Riding (Noiseville)

Cybertron Featuring Lady Jay - Strutt Your Stuff (Cybertronics)

Bob - Nothing For Something (House Of Teeth)

Ed's Redeeming Qualities - Bob (Flying Fish)

Amayenge - Munise Munise (Strange Fruit)

Venus Beads - Moon Is Red (Emergo)

John Peel - 22nd December 1996

Featuring Billy Bragg in session.

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Infinity Project - Overwind (TIP)
Art Attacks - I Am A Dalek (Overground)
Servotron - I AM NOT A [Voice Activated Child Identicon] (One Louder)
Billy Bragg - Goal Hanger/Levi Stubb's Tears (Session)
Back 2 Basics - Fighting Vipers (Suburban Base)
Paul Kelly - Stealin' In The Name Of The Lord (Debutante)
Billy Bragg - Dark End Of The Street (Session)
Billy Bragg - A New England (Session)
Paul Donor - Dead Or Arrested (Lotus Pool)
Billy Bragg - Deck The Halls With Bows Of Holly (Session)

1996 Festive 50 No's 37-27

37. The Prodigy - Firestarter (XL Recordings)
36. The Wedding Present - 2, 3, Go (Cooking Vinyl)
35. DJ Shadow - Stem (Mo Wax)
34. Broadcast - The Book Lovers (Duophonic)
33. Calvin Party - Lies, Lies And Government (Probe Plus)
32. Zion Train - Babylon's Burning (China)
31. White Town - Your Woman (Chrysalis)
30. DJ Force And Styles - Fireworks (Essential Platinum)
29. Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy Song (Warp)
28. Belle And Sebastian - The State I Am In (Electric Honey)
Dick Dale - Nitrus (Beggars Banquet)

John Peel - 12th December 1986

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Very Things - This Is Motortown (D.C.L Electric)

The Wedding Present - Felicity (Strange Fruit)

Screwdriver - No Momma (Volcano)

Weather Prophets - Swimming Pool Blue (Session)

Frick N' Frack - You Shouldn't Have Done It (Romil)

Billy Bragg - The Warmest Room (Session)

Raymen - Pipeline (Rebel Records)

Raymen - Desert Drive (Raymen)

Holger Hiller - We Don't Write Anything On Paper Or So (Mute)

Weather Prophets - Hollow Heart (Session)

Bhundu Boys - Faka Puresha

The Fall - Hey! Luciani (Beggars Banquet)

Barrington Levy - Come

Billy Bragg - Chile, Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto (Session)

DST - Rock The House In Japan (Epic)

The Shamen - Young Till Yesterday (Moksha)

Sam Baker - I Can't Break Away (Charly R&B)

Weather Prophets - She Comes From The Rain (Session)

Twang - Sharp (Ron Johnson)

Joy Division - She's Lost Control (Strange Fruit)

Burning Spear - We Are Going (Greensleeves)

Billy Bragg - Ideology (Session)

Sicklee Boys - Misunderstood (New Rose)

Willie Mitchell - 20-75 (Hi)

Wire - A Serious Of Snakes (Mute)

Weather Prophets - Faithful (Session)

Worse 'Em - Triple M Bass (Profile)

Billy Bragg - Greetings To The New Brunette (Session)

Terence Tsoi - Careless Whisper

John Peel - 29th August 1989

A particularly good program featuring The Telescopes in session.

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New Order - Run (Factory)
Rainkings - Count Me In (Playtime)
Wrecks-N-Effect - The New Jack Swing (Motown)
Telescopes - There Is No Floor (Session)
Home T, Cocoa Tea and Shabba Ranks - Stop Spreading Rumours (Greensleeves_
Sofahead - Valium Housewife (Meantime)
Greater Than One - I Don't Need God (Wax Trax)
The Sundays - I Kicked A Boy (Rough Trade)
Telescopes - Silent Water (Session)
Paradise - Guardian Angel
Untamed Youth - Pabst Blue Ribbon
Abdul Tee Jay Rokoto - ? (Rogue)
Traddodiad Ofnus - Rhyddiaith
My Bloody Valentine - Thorn (Creation)
Telescopes - Sadness Pale (Session)
New Order - MTO (Factory)
Gregory Issacs - I'm Sinking (Tappa)
Cud - Only A Prawn In Whitby (Imaginary)
EPMD - It's Time To Party
Billy Bragg - Reason To Believe (Live)
Das Damen - Making Time (Sub Pop)
Telescopes - Suffocation (Session)
808 State - State Ritual (Creed)