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John Peel's Music On BFBS #3

John verwöhnt uns nicht nur mit einem LP die er von seinem Urlaub auf Kreta mitgebracht hat, er sing auch noch drauf. Ein Zuhörer erzürnt John Peel, weil eine Sendung von ihm in Köln wegen einem Livekonzert von Camel abgesetzt wurde.

BFBS (Germany): 1985-04-00

John regales us not only with an LP he's brought back from his Cretan holiday, but also with an "impression" of the singing thereon. He includes cover versions of Blue Öyster Cult, an old music-hall song which John claims to be old enough to remember [1], and Duran Duran, and it seems to be the beginning of the end of his admiration for the Sisters Of Mercy. A listener enrages JP by telling him the first half of one of his BFBS programmes in Cologne was cancelled in favour of a concert by Camel, leading to a bit of shrieking from John and comments about "the ultimate indignity" and "a gang of clapped-out old hippies." Many thanks to the taper.

1. Blumen Ohne Duft: 'House Of Bondage (12"-How To Escape)' (What's So Funny About...)
2. (JP: 'Sounds from another world, it says on the back of the sleeve, and it's a world I rather like, I must say.')
3. New Model Army: 'No Rest (7")' (EMI)
4. Vasilis Skoulas: 'Sousta (Compilation LP-Kritiki Antologia - Folk Melodies And Dances From Crete)' (Aerakis)
5. (JP: 'I bet even the garage land posse don't have that one.')
6. Damage: 'The Dice (LP-Sins Of Our Fathers)' (Gnarl)
7. Very Things: 'The Bushes Scream While My Daddy Prunes (7")' (Reflex)
8. (JP: 'I think matron's going to have to confiscate their sound effects discs.')
9. Sisters Of Mercy: 'Body And Soul (7")' (Merciful Release / WEA)
10. (JP: 'It does, I think, rather lack the vitality of their previous work.')
11. Minutemen: 'The Red And The Black (7"-Tour-Speil EP)' (Reflex)
12. (JP: 'I remember playing the original of that on the radio before most of you were born, I venture. Blue Öyster Cult did it, and I'm not going to play you their version, for sure.') [2]
13. Foyer Des Arts: 'Schimmliges Brot (7")' (ARO)
14. Weirdos: 'We Got The Neutron Bomb (7")' (Dangerhouse)
15. Nip Drivers: 'Rio (LP-Oh Blessed Freak Show)' (Enigma)
16. (JP: 'I think that needed saying, don't you?')
17. Very Things: 'When Father Papered The Parlour (12"-Mummy You're A Wreck)' (Reflex)

BFBS (Germany): 1985-05-00

The Hive come from Shipley, which John reminds us was where Sheila was born. Three tracks from the New Order release, which came out on 13 May 1985. Many thanks to the taper.

1. Skeletal Family: 'This Time (LP-Futile Combat)' (Red Rhino)
2. Hive: 'Kingdom Rise, Kingdom Fall (12")' (Hum Music)
3. Cravats: 'Shroud Of New York, Chapter One (Compilation LP-A Reflex Compilation)' (Reflex)
4. (JP: 'Ah, couldn't you just hug 'em to death?')
5. Nip Drivers: 'Hick In The Movie (LP-Oh Blessed Freak Show)' (Enigma)
6. Überhaupt: 'Tanzen (7" EP-Gradeaus Nach Unbekannt)' (not on label: self-released)
7. (JP: 'Hope that didn't translate as "underpants", the bit that I heard in that, otherwise we could be in trouble again.')
8. New Order: 'Love Vigilantes (LP-Low-life)' (Factory)

John Peel Day 2015

2005 rief die BBC den 13. Oktober 2005 zum ersten internationalen „John-Peel-Day“ aus und forderte seine Fans in aller Welt auf, Veranstaltungen in seinem Gedenken zu organisieren. Dieser Tag soll von nun an jeden zweiten Donnerstag im Oktober gefeiert werden, um an Peels letzte Sendung am 14. Oktober 2004 zu erinnern. Pi Radio macht mit, mit einem Spezial Archiv Rauskram Mitschnitt.