Thursday, August 28, 2014

John Peel - 1st September 1980

Featuring Cockney Rejects and TV Personalities in session.


Cravats - Precinct (Small Wonder)
Angelic Upstarts - Guns For The Afghan Rebels (EMI)
Jimmy Pursey - Lucky Man (Polydor)
Cockney Rejects - Cockney Rip-Off (Session)
TV Personalities - La Grande (Session)
Simple Minds - I Travel (Arista)
Dead Kennedys - Your Emotions (Cherry Red)
Jah Walton - Top Ranking (Belleville Hill)
The Ruts - West One (Virgin)
A Certain Ratio - Shack Up (Factory Beneluux)
Cockney Rejects - Blockbuster (Session)
Brian Eno - Seven Deadly Finns
Jah Walton - Top Ranking (Belleville Hill)
The Everly Brothers - Be Bop A Lula (Old Gold)
TV Personalities - Look Back In Anger (Session)
UB40 - Burden Of Shame (Graduate)
Twig and The Kicks - The Boy Who Sold His Dreams (Majorette)
Comsat Angels - Missing In Action (Polydor)
Neon - Don't Eat Bricks (Radar)
Cockney Rejects - I Wanna Be A Star (Session)
Naggo Waugh - Knotty Not Livin' Easy (Strugglers)
The B52's - Private Idaho (Warner Brothers)
Dead Kennedys - Kill The Poor (Cherry Red)
TV Personalities - Silly Girl (Session)
Little Johnny Taylor - How Can A Broken Man Survive (Charly)
Lilliput - Die Matrosen (Rough Trade)
Roky Erickson And The Aliens - Night Of The Vampire (CBS)
Cockney Rejects - 15 Years (Session)
The Fall - Totally Wired (Rough Trade)
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Hero (Chrysalis)
Renaldo And The Loaf - A Medical Man (Brain Boosters)
TV Personalities - The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Session)
UB40 - Signing Off (Graduate)

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

John Peel - 16th September 1995

Another fine show for the British Forces Broadcasting Service.


Sleeper - Disco Duncan (Melody Maker)
Dick Dale - Mexico (Melody Maker)
Smaller - It's Closed (Maximum X)
DJ Soul Slinger - Abducted (Jungle Sky)
The Fall - Gramme Friday (Rough Trade)
Mingo 2000 - Frankie Machine (Mable Label)
Mouse On Mars - Saturday Night World Cup Fieber (Too Pure)
Locust Fudge - Gold (What's That Noise)
Sportsguitar - Sweet Water (What's That Noise)
Urusei Yatsura - Powerball (Che')
Horace Andy - Dub The Light (Blood And Fire)
Solid Jackson - As I Walk on The Earth I Can Hear The Grass Growing (Sing Eunuchs)
The Move - I Can Hear The Grass Grow (Deram)
J Bone Cro - Timeless N Texas
100th Monkey And Tristan - Spritus (Matsuri Productions)
Bizzy B/TDK - Wicked Man (Brain)
18th Dye - F*4 (Che')
Johnny Moped - Incendiary Device (Chiswick)
Pulp - Sorted For E's And Wizz (Island)
Mundo Muzique - Evil Tempest (Kickin')
Starfish - Warpfactor (Trance Syndicate)
Leon Bass - Country Hix's (Barklog)
Fuzzbird - Can't Believe A Word (FR)
Barrington Levi And Beenie Man - Under Mi Sensi (Greensleeves)
Magic Hour - America (Che')
Knights Of The Occasional Table - Golganooza (Middle Earth)
Tunic - Chandelier (Neptunes)
The Radar Brothers - Animals (Fingerprint)
A Sense Of Summer - Around The World (Universal)

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

John Peel - 5th June 1990

Featuring the first broadcast of the fourth session from Inspiral Carpets.


Ty-Jan Et Les - Isabelle (Jimmy's Productions)
Love Corporation - Palatial (Creation)
Inspiral Carpets - The Beast Inside (Session)
The Shamen - Ultimate Irony (State Injustice)
Ruthless Rap Assassins - And It Wasn't A Dream (EMI)
Monster Truck Five - It Comes To This (Datapanik)
Luis Enrique Martinez - Ceretenita 
Inspiral Carpets - Grip (Session)
Tiger - Bother Them (New Name)
Code 6 - Off The Hill (Nu Groove)
The Boo Radleys - Catweazle (Action)
Cream - Cat's Squirrel
New Pardesi Music Machine - Lak Tuna Tuna (Star)
Inspiral Carpets - Weakness (Session)
Silk Tymes Leather - Taking No Shorts (Geffen)
Dickless - Sweet Teeth (C/Z)
Dickless - Saddle Tramp (Sub Pop)
Lord Sassafrass - Green Bay Incident (Trojan)
Prophecy Of Doom - Earth Reality Victim (Deaf)
Inspiral Carpets - Keep It In Mind (Session)
Shimita - Matari (Syllart)
Tinklers - The Future, Dinosaurs Are Better (Shimmy Disc)

Monday, August 25, 2014

John Peel - 5th April 2001

Featuring Bonnie Prince Billy in session.


Melys - I Don't Believe In You (Sylem)
John B - Move Your Body (Shoebox)
Low - Whore (Tugboat)
Bonnie Prince Billy - Rich Wife Full Of Happiness (Session)
XSX - Zero (White Label)
Augustus Pablo - Way Out Rockers (Jamaican Records)
Lovejunk - Marine Boy (Crackle)
Fuck - San Jacinto (Smells Like Records)
Michael Forshaw - Work That Mutha (Leaf)
The High Fidelity - Pig Might Fly (Plastique)
Bonnie Prince Billy - Beezle (Session)
Bal Sagoth - Star Maps Of The Ancient Cosmographer (Nuclear Blast Records)
Hiroaku Lizura -A D L (Muller Records)
Malako - In The Midnight Hour (London)
Khaya - More Argument (SL)
Ballboy - I've Got Pictures Of You In Your Underwear (SL)
Primo Scala's Accordian Band - Little Valley In The Mountains
Fotomoto - Le Passage (White Label)
Lightning Bolt - Forcefield (Load)

Thursday, August 21, 2014

John Peel - 4th June 1990

Featuring the brilliant Terminal Cheesecake in session.


MC 900 Ft Jesus and DJ Zero - Truth Is Out Of Style (Nettwerk Europe)
Losers - Faith And The Future (Floppy)
Halo Of Flies - Rubber Room (Amphetamine Reptile)
Mah So-I - Black Acid (Network)
Terminal Cheesecake - Blowhound (Session)
Steve Knight, Papa Beeto and Japanese - Dust Them (Circuit)
The Boo Radleys - Kaleidoscope (Action)
Cop Shoot Cop - Lo Com Denom (Circuit)
John Chibadura and The Tembo Brothers - Ndingakutendei Neiko (CSA)
Love Camp 7 - Father Sarah's Children (Bowlmor)
Terminal Cheesecake - Stinky Beads (Session)
LFO - LFO (Warp)
Dinosaur Jr - The Wagon (Sub Pop)
Admiral Bailey and Chaka Demus - This Is We (Jammy's)
Medicine Head - His Guiding Hand (Dandelion)
Sonic Youth - I Know There's An Answer (Demilo)
Terminal Cheesecake - Inbreds 80 (Session)
Alejo Duran - Pedazo De Acordeon

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

John Peel - 10th April 1993

Featuring the first play of the fourth Faith Healers session and a repeat of Crane's second.


The Sonics - Which (Big Beat)
PJ Harvey - Hook (Island)
© - He Was (Volume 6)
Th' Faith Healers - Rave Track/Bottle Bank (Session)
Sir Shina Peters - Shina Gobode (Flametree)
Crane - Indian Red (Session)
Jacob's Mouse - Box Hole (Wiiija)
Cornershop - ? (Wiiija)
? - Disneyland (Time)
© -Dream One (Transglobal)
Reverend Horton Heat - Beer 30 (Sub Pop)
Crane - Buffalo (Session)
Jimmie Noone's Apex Club - Orchestra - Apex Blues
Love 4 Sale - So Right (Steppin' Out)
Th' Faith Healers - Serge (Session)
The Fall - Glam Racket (Permanent)
King Stitt - Herbsman (Trojan)
Eric's Trip - Haze (Cargo)
The Nectarine No.9 - Peanut Brain (Postcard)
Sound Crowd - Pleasure Girl (Red)

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

John Peel - 9th June 1968

With session tracks from Idle Race, Eclection, Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band and Joe Cocker and The Grease Band.


Idle Race - On With The Show (Session)
Taj Mahal - Everybody's Got To Change Sometime (CBS/Direction)
Eclection - Confusion (Session)
Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Kandy Korn (Session)
Kenny Everett - It's Been So Long (MGM)
The Who - Call Me Lightning (Decca)
Joe Cocker And The Grease Band - I Shall Be Released (Session)
Spirit - Uncle Jack (CBS)
Idle Race - The Morning Sunshine (Session)
Tyrannosaurus Rex - Graceful Fat Sheba (Regal Zonophone)
Otis Redding - The Happy Song

Monday, August 18, 2014

John Peel - 2nd May 1989

Another edited show but with great music once again. This one is about half an hour of a show from May 1989 which featured the first broadcast of the third Pixies session.


Dub Sex - Barber Barber (Wooden)
Pixies - Down To The Well (Session)
The Corn Dollies - Nothing Of You (Medium Cool)
Snuff - That's Enough (Workers Playtime)
The Melvins - Heater Moves And Eyes (Alchemy)
Pixies - Into The White (Session)
Acid - Truth Is Hidden (Selfish)
The Brilliant Corners - I Didn't See You (McQueen)
Pixies - Wave Of Mutilation (Session)
Just-Ice - Justice For All (Sleeping Bag)

Thursday, August 14, 2014

John Peel - 2nd February 1988

Featuring Cookie Crew in session.


Twang - Snap Back (Ron Johnson)
The Disappointments - Better Than You/Scar Yourself/Drink It Away/Brainwashed/Possessed (Ice Pick)
Leo Reisman And His Orchestra - Gay Love
Fantasy Club - Mystery Girl (International House)
27 Devils Joking  - Where's Bo Diddley When You Need Him (Fundamental)
Cookie Crew - The Place To Be (Session)
Bastard Kestrel - Tardive (Goldhanger Records)
U-Roy with John Holt - Wear You To The Ball (Treasure Isle)
Cyclic Amp - Turkey Shop (Probe Plus)
Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis (Mister- Ron)
The Buzzcocks - What Do I Get (Strange Fruit)
UT - Evangelist (Blast First)
Terry Gibbs - Gibberish (Emarcy)
Crucial Youth - Be Kind, Rewind (Faith Records)
Cookie Crew - The Cut Master Swift Rap (Session)
Kahondo Style - Green Dream (Nato)
H.D.Q. - Have Faith (Meantime Records)
Stella Chiweshe - Chamakuwende (Globe Style)
The Sugarcubes - Cold Sweat [Remix] (One Little Indian)
The Rosehips - Loophole (Subway)
Sir Drew And Rapski - Notting Hill (Positive Beat Records)
Bhundu Boys - Writing On The Wall
Cud - You Sexy Thing (Strange Fruit)
Cows - Redhouse  (Treehouse Recoprds)
The Primitives - Crash (RCA)
Cookie Crew - It's Gotta Be Fresh (Session)
SDT - It's A Groove (Paradox)
Doom - Slave To Convention (Peaceville)
Ripple - Willie, Pass The Water (GRC)
The Chesterfields - Sob Sob Story (Subway)
A.C. Marias - Time Was (Mute)

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

John Peel - 2nd June 1999

Featuring Third Eye Foundation in session.



The Hellacopters - Twist Action (Fandango)
Space DJ'z - Switch Backz (Soma Mis)
Revolutionary Corps Of Teenage Jesus - American (Creeping Bent)
? - ?
Shere Khan - Vampire (Offyerface)
Starfish Enterprise - Electrons (Law And Order)
? - ?
Clinic - Magic Boots (Domino)
Iyashanti - Getting It Right (Star Trail)
Third Eye Foundation - Goddamit You Got Too Behind (Session)
Datblygu - Mynd (Ankstmusik)
Pavement - Folk Jam (Virgin)
El Presidente - La Galita (Nascente)
Grace Cameron - Adam And Eve
Maude Raymond - Goodbye Molly Brown
George M. Cohan - The Small Town Gal
Maude Raymond - The Dusky Salome
Bob Log III - Daddy LOg's Drive-In Candy Hoppin' Car Babes (Sympathy For The Record Industry)
Rob Acid - Sequenzen Des Windes (Force Inc.)
El Hombre Trajeado - Alec Under Observation (Guided Missile)
? - Elvis (Parapsychic Acoustic Research/Ash International)
Jimmy Riley - Prophecy (Pressure Sounds)
Topper - Cwsg Gerdded (Bedlam)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Backwater Blues (Tradition)
Third Eye Foundation - Some Pitying Angel (Session)
Solex - Call Me Mista (Matador)
National Park Vs Future Pilot AKA - Norman Dolph's Money (Earworm)

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

John Peel - 3rd April 2001

With a great set from DJ Bone live from Maida Vale.


The Arrivals - Heavyweight (Thick)
Wagon Christ - Receiver (Ninja Tune)
Kleenex/Lilliput - Nice (Kill Rock Stars)
El Goodo - Honey (Session)
The High Fidelity - Omnichord 4am (Plastique)
Orbital - Tootled (London)
Llwbr Llaethog Vs Y Cyrff - Llanwst (Fitamin Un)
Calexico - The Crystal Frontier (City Slang)

DJ Shufflemaster - Opaqueness (Tresor)
Benumb - Oxygen Thief (Relapse)
El Goodo - Stuck In The 60's (Session)
Plaid - Squance (Warp)
Khaya - Death 2 (SL)
Jack Hilton and His Orchestra - Stepping Out
XSX - Do Not Sell After 1999 (XSX)
The Revolutionaries - King Of The Minstrels (Pressure Sounds)
El Goodo - Pay Per Sound (Session)
Stimulant DJ's rmx Paul James - Go Crazy (Stimulant)
Ladytron - The Way That I Found You (Invicta Hi Fi)
Robertino - La Paloma (Trikont)
Low/Dirty Three - When I Call Upon Your Seed (KonKurrent)
Chad Lewis Vs. Boomjam/Paul Glazby - Comin' Out (Bluemuzic)
Little Walter - Driftin' (Chess)
El Goodo - Highschool Low (Session)
Universal Project - Rux Flava (True Playaz)
Tree - Ghoul (White Label)

Monday, August 11, 2014

John Peel - 31st May 1990

Featuring a repeat off the first session from The Charaltans.


The Charlatans - You Can Talk To Me (Session)
Linval Thompson/Ninja Man - More Than You Bargain For (Mr Doo)
Babes In Toyland - Fork Down Throat (Twin/Tone)
Reason To Believe - Again And Again (Nemesis)
The Grid - Flotation (East West)
Trenchmouth - Ultraman (Ad Infinitum)
The Charlatans - Polar Bear (Session)
Tiger - Bother Them (New Name)
The Jesus Lizard - Killer McHann (Touch And Go)
Shimita - Matari (Syllart)
The Tinklers - Hokey Pokey (Shimmy Disc)
Pussy Galore - Mono Man (Rough Trade)
Terry Hunter - Back 2 House [The House Mix] (Muzique)
The Charlatans - Then (Session)
The Breeders - When I Was A Painter (4AD)
Nardo Ranks - Box Shout (Shocking Vibes)
Levellers 5 - Be Happy (Probe Plus)
Urban Dance Squad - No Kid (Areola)
The Charlatans - Always In Mind (Session)
Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - The Past Sure Is Tense (Virgin)

Thursday, August 07, 2014

John Peel - 11th August 1976 (Roxy Music Retrospective)

Here's another of those strange retrospective shows which were pre-recorded and broadcast in August 1976 while Mr Peel was on holiday. I believe ten were recorded in total, whether or not they all exist is debatable but I like to think they do and will one day all end up on this site.


Roxy Music - Virginia Plain (Island)
Roxy Music - Pyjamarama (Island)
Quiet Sun - Mummy Was An Asteroid, Daddy Was A Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil (Island)
Phil Manzanera - Frontera (Island) 
Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home A Heartache (Island)
Roxy Music - Do The Strand (Island)
Andy Mackay - The Hour Before The Dawn (Island)
Andy Mackay - Ride Of The Valkyries (Island)
Roxy Music - Street Life (Island)
Roxy MUsic - A Song For Europe (Island)
Eno - Seven Deadly Finns (Island)
Eno - Sky Saw (Island)
Roxy Music - All I Want Is You (Island)
Bryan Ferry - The In Crowd (Island)
Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug (Island)

Wednesday, August 06, 2014

John Peel - 27th April 1989

Not a complete program but well worth the price of admission. It is a bit edited but I suppose we've all committed that crime at some point. I have quite a few programs that have been sliced up in this manner and will occasionally slip one in and hope no-one notices. If anyone has the complete program please let me know.


Mudhoney - You Got It [Keep It Outta My Face] (Sub Pop)
The Great Leap Forwards - Honours In Spades (Communications Unique)
The Shamen -  You, Me And Everything (Moksha)
Soundgarden - All Your Lies (C/Z)
Blacka T - Run Come Yah (Rockers International)
The Walking Seeds - Imperious, Vain, Selfish And Wilful (Glass)
Inspiral Carpets - Joe (Cow)
The Heartthrobs - I Wonder Why (Session)
The Telescopes - This Planet (Cheree)

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

John Peel - 5th May 1999

Featuring the one and only session from Shinkansen recording artists Monograph who had just provided us with their excellent debut lp which was sadly destined to be their only lp although elements of them returned as Pacific Radio.



We Ragazzi - Why Does The World Have To Modernize? (My Pal God)
Dillinger - Cane River Rock (Justice League)
Monograph - The River (Session)
Space DJz - Terror Swarm (Soma)
Hood - Houses Tilting Towards The Sea (Domino)
Melt Banana - Plot In A Pot (Tzadik)
Fibre Optix - Sin (Renegade Hardware)
Monograph - Holding On In Colour (Session)
Apachi 61 - A Day In The Life Of Spiderman (Law and Auder)
Cable - Brothers And Sisters (Infectious)
Hefner - I Took Her Love For Granted (Too Pure)
Zimbabwe Cha Cha Kings - Runako Rwemwana Wanguo (Earthworks)
Monograph - Don't Gimme Shelter (Session)
Six By Seven - July, August, Winter (Mantra)
Droid - Infection (Tribe)
Captain Beefheart - Hobo Chang Ba (Revenant)
Man Or Astro-Man - Psychology Of A.I. (Epitaph)
Monograph - You've Got A Name (Session)
Yam Yam - Do The Hardcore (Kill The Rest)
Low - Missouri (Tugboat)
Tubeway Army - Down In The Park (Strange Fruit)
Cuban Boys - Cognoscenti Vs. Intelligentsia (White Label)
Number One Cup - Little Johnny Jewel (Cooking Vinyl)
Monograph - Finding New Rest For The Ghost (Session)
Ice Minus - Torment (Audio Couture)
The Flaming Stars - Once Bitten, Once Shy (Vinyl Japan)

Monday, August 04, 2014

John Peel - 4th April 2001

Featuring  a live set from DJ Bone at the BBC's Maida Vale studio.


Lightning Bolt - 13 Monsters (Load)
The Handsome Family - I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling (White Label)
Depeche Mode - Dream On [Dave Clark Remix]
Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia - Morning After Pill (Tinfoil)
XSX - Smash (White Label)
Bonnier Prince Billy - Mrs William (Domino)
Rootsman - We Come Through (Millennium Records)
Buddy Guy - The First Time I Met The Blues (Universal Music)
DJ Bone Live Set
Brave Captain - Better Living Through Reckless Experimentation (Wichita)
Roy Brown And His Mighty Men - Boogie At Midnight (Delux)
Tortoise - Blackjack (Thrill Jockey)
Gregory Isaacs - Story Book Children (Blood And Fire)
Zinc - It's Gonna Rain (True Playaz)
Plaid - Assault On Precinct Zero (Warp)
Joe Maphis - Randy Lynn Rag (Columbia/Legacy)
Skinless - Foreshadowing Our Demise (Relapse)
King Tubby - Blessed Dub (Jamaican Recordings)
Cinerama - Pacific (Scopitones)
Wauvenfold - Clip (Wichita)