Here we have a little helping if The John Peel show from the early Eighties. This episode was first broadcast on the 30th of November, 1983. Quite a good little show and contains Row hours of tunes from the times. Music from groups such as The Membranes, Aswad, The Undertones, Eton Crop and many more. Hope you enjoy!
The John Peel radio show from 30th of November,1983
Tracklisting
01. Waterboys: December (7″) Chicken Jazz
02 Peel gives out football results, while Kid Jensen starts chatting with him
03. Accurate Team: Kouche Is Hot (7″) Hot Stuff
04. Eton Crop: He Didn’t Say Anything (Peel Session)
05. Three Johns: A.W.O.L. (EP – A.W.O.L.) Abstract
06. Aswad: African Children (LP – Live And Direct) Island
07. Aswad: Soca Rumba (LP – Live And Direct) Island
08. Play Dead: Total Decline (Peel Session)
09. The Goodies: The Funky Gibbon (7″) Bradleys (A short snippet was played)
10. Nocturnal Emissions: No Separation (LP – Viral Shedding) Illuminated
11. Johnny Osbourne: Water Pumping (7″) Jammy’s
12. Eton Crop: Gay Boys On The Battlefield (Peel Session)
13. Bobette’s: Mr Lee (v/a LP – Atlantic Records History Of Rhythm And Blues Vocal Groups) Cat
14. V-Effect: Master / Slave (LP – Stop Those Songs) Rift
15. Andy Capp: Popatop (7″) Treasure Isle
16. Play Dead: The Tenant (Peel Session)
17. Membranes: Kafka’s Dad (LP – Crack House) Criminal Damage
18. Michael Palmer: I’ve Got A Problem (7″) Black Roots
19. Undertones: Here Comes The Summer (LP – All Wrapped Up) Ardeck
20. Eton Crop: Explain (Peel Session)
21. Chalkdust: Watch The Mixture (LP – With A Bang) Straker’s
22. Don Woody: Make Like A Rock And Roll (v/a – Rare Rockabilly) MCA
23. Play Dead: Gaze (Peel Session)
24. Chordettes: Zorro (7″) Ace
25. Nightingales: Nothing But Trouble (LP – Hysterics) Ink
26. Jimmy Riley: Bang Bang (split 7″ with Al Campbell – Back Off With The Cocaine) Taxi
27. Eton Crop: Boring Isms (Peel Session)
28. June Tabor: The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (LP – Airs And Graces) Topic
The John Peel show
The John Peel show was a Radio Show on BBC Radio 2 which ran for years up til the DJs death in 2004. He was one of the first broadcasters to play Psychedelic Rock and Progressive Rock records on British Radio.
He was most famous for his promotion of small, obscure Bands that wee unheard of and promoted them. Way back before the days of the Internet, if you had a band, you sent your demo tape into John Peel and hope it got heard by him and played.
However, he got thousands of Demo tapes sent into him. I once saw a documentary where he’d enter his office of a normal day and his door would have a massive pile of mail lying piled up behind it. He’d have to shoulder the door to get in. So you can imagine the backload of tracks he had to play. But when he died, the barn that he owned was stacked full of stuff that he still hadn’t had a chance to listen to yet.
Respect for the Tunes
But I think the thing I loved most about John Peel as a D.J was the fact that he let each single play fully right to the end before he said a word. Most DJs rabbit on over the music. Disturbing it. So annoying. Again, Back in the pre internet days before MP3 Downloads that take a few seconds, we used to tape things from the radio.
This required putting a cassette tape in the player and pressing record n play to capture songs we liked on the Radio. Since Peely was an ex pirate ship radio D.J from the Radio Caroline days, he was onboard with this. So he always made sure he let the track play right to the end before talking. He also liked to be constructive when he did talk. As far as John Peel was concerned, he was there to play music.
However, broadcasting rules required DJs to have a certain amount of taking in the 2 hour slot he’d gave on a Tuesday and Thursday nights between 8pm and 10pm. So instead of just babbling Luke most D JJ s seemed to do for the same of it, he’d use the time wisely. Between every second song he would tell you the song that had just played and introduced the next track. But every half hour or so, hed spend about Five minutes telling all about a group or a new release, etc
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