Fades in Slowly

Wonderful stuff, thank you to bloggers delite for sharing this one. Me? I’m still snowed under with work (not volcanic ash) but hopefully will be able to resume normal, sporadic posting soon.

The Quadrophenia Demo

1. Unused Piano Theme (Demo)
2. The Real Me (Alternative Who Version)
3. The Real Me (Demo)
4. Four Faces (Who based on demo)
5. Love Reign O’er Me (Demo)
6. The Dirty Jobs (Demo)
7. The Punk And The Godfather (Demo)
8. I’m One (Demo)
9. I’ve Had Enough (Demo)
10. Bell Boy (Demo)
11. Cut My Hair (Demo)
12. Brr (Demo)
13. Drowned (Demo)

Last year’s blog post about the two Punishment of Luxury sessions proved one of my most popular, mainly because the links to the downloads died. Here they are again, finally.

thank you to Martin Wheatley at the John Peel radio show discussion group.

My dear friends, here is the final part of the festive countdown… I hope you’ve enjoyed listening to this chart as much as I have cobbling it together. My laptop is resisting all attempts to Peelify the chart, so at the moment there’s only the zip file download available. I hope to remedy this in the next few days. Enjoy the top ten and have a great year.

10 Bob Marley – Punky Reggae Party (Adam – Fades in Slowly)
09 The Boys – First Time (Stewy – Mr. obscure)
08 Head Hands and Feet - Warming Up The Band (Dave – Planet Mondo)
07 Gustav Holst - Saturn, The Bringer Of Old Age (Steve – Teenage Kicks)
06 Smoke Fairies – Frozen heart (Davy – Ghost of Electricity)
05 Morrissey – I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris (Adam – Fades in Slowly)
04 The Fall – Slippy Floor (Mark Mix) (Kris – Burning World)
03 Butcher Boy – A Better Ghost (Jim – Vinyl villain)
02 Bloc Party – This Modern Love (Adam – Pretending life is like a song)
01 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero (Ed – 17 seconds)

I’m sure you’ve all had much better things to do, so you might have missed 50 to 41, 40 to 31, 30 to 21and even 20 to 11.

Now then, anyone remember The Price is Right?

Hope those of you who celebrate Christmas had a good one. I’m a Chivas Regal and a Glenfiddich to the good, so all’s well at my end. Here then, my dear friends, is part three of the stupendous blogger’s choice Festive 50 of 2009.

30 We Were Promised Jetpacks – Moving Clocks Run Slow (Adam – Fades in Slowly)
29 The Jam – Ghosts (Adam – Pretending life is like a song)
28 The Wolfmen – Cat Green Eyes (Dave – Planet Mondo)
27 Smoke Fairies – Sunshine (Davy – Ghost of Electricity)
26 Horace Andy and Ashley Beedle – Babylon You Lose (Ed – 17 seconds)
25 The Twilight Sad – I Became a Prostitute (Jim – Vinyl villain)
24 Shlohmo – Socks (Kris – Burning World)
23 Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev – Classical Symphony 1st mvt (Steve – Teenage Kicks)
22 Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev - Romeo & Juliet (Balcony Scene) (Steve – Teenage Kicks)
21 Johnny Curious – The Road To Cheltenham (Stewy – Mr. Obscure)

Listen now…

If you’ve had better things to do, you might have missed 50 to 41 and 40 to 31.

Here’s what was on offer from BBC1 on Xmas Day 1984: it begins with the end of the Blankety Blank Xmas Special with Les Dawson, followed by a trailer for the Two Ronnies, and a BBC2 slide and the BBC1 Xmas ident linking into the Hi-De-Hi Xmas Special.

After last year’s exhausting effort to cobble together a 1976 chart, as enjoyable as it was, I’ve this year asked some of my fellow bloggers to do the hard work and make their choices of tracks they’d like to hear in a festive chart. Here then, is part one, featuring the rundown from that all important number 50 to 41.

I hope you enjoy this chart: it’s reminiscent of the late ’70s 50s, with a mixture of a few old gems and lots of contemporary classics. Rather than do the segways myself, I’ve got in the professionals this time round, although I have to admit, there are one or two discrepancies between the track introduced and the one played.

The Fades in Slowly 2009 Festive 50 part 1

50 Lo Cut a Sleifar – Aduniad (Adam – Fades in Slowly)
49 Richard Hawley – Open up your door (Davy – Ghost of Electricity)
48 Vaughan Williams – Fantasia On A Theme Of Thomas Tallis (Steve – Teenage Kicks)
47 Readymades – Terry Is My Space Cadet (Stewy – Mr. Obscure)
46 The Keith Mansfield Orchestra – Soul Thing (Dave – Planet Mondo)
45 The Big Pink – Velvet (Ed – 17 seconds)
44 Aidan Moffat & the Best-ofs – Big Blonde (Jim – Vinyl villain)
43 The Magnetic Fields – Nothing matters when we’re dancing (Adam – Pretending life is like a song)
42 Four Tet – Love Cry (Kris – Burning World)
41 Richard Addinsell – Southern Rhapsody (Steve – Teenage Kicks)

Thank you to the wonderful bloggers who are making the chart possible.

Listen now!

Remember when TV closed down for the night?

Never one to shirk away from a request to stick something on the blog, especially from a Peely compatriot, here is a Christmas card from Mr. Obscure.

Even more importantly, here are his new goodies, which you can get by clicking here.

I haven’t even downloaded this one myself yet, but any excuse to get a picture of a BMX on the blog cannot be missed.

Another billfromnorthwales conversion, highlights of this show include a session by the Chameleons and full continuous playback of the first session by Altered Images.

Download here (I’ll get a ‘listen now’ thingy ready when I get the chance).

By the way, can anyone identify the extremely health conscious young lady on the cover of that month’s Rolling Stone? She looks very familiar.

Any interesting anecdotes you have about this date or show can be added here.

I look forward with great anticipation to your comments on this one…

Going to junior school (junior high to Americans among you) in the South of England in the late ’70s and early ’80s meant only one thing: you were a Madness fan. Failure to like this band could lead to a duffing up on the playground. Girls of course had the luxury of being able to like Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet, but such behaviour would never do among the boys. Nevertheless, I’d only just turned 6 when this was broadcast, as had my peers, so failure to stay up and listen to the Peel show wasn’t really a beating up offence.

Madness’ only Peel session, recorded 14th August, 1979:

Track list

The Prince
Bed And Breakfast Man
Land Of Hope And Glory
Stepping Into Line

Lineup

Mike Barson (Keyboards)
Suggs (Lead Vocals)
Mark Bedford (Bass)
Woody (Drums)
Chris Foreman (Guitar, Vocals)
Lee Thompson (Saxophone, Vocals)

Convenient ‘listen now’ option:

Here’s an old Andy Kershaw show courtesy of the one and only Ken Garner. According to Ken, ‘It’s a stormer featuring the Frank Chickens, plus Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in session.’

Tape side A

Tape side B

Work is manic, hence the lack of posts. Bear with me, I’ll be back.