Archive for the ‘peel newsgroup’ Category
- Punishment of luxury, again at last (1978-79)
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.
- 14th June, 1983
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.
- A Garner Original: 28th September, 1988
Well I’ve finally completed my first rip of my (modest) collection of my own originated complete (or nearly complete) Peel shows, so here it is, a timely surprise for this weekend. I won’t say any more about what this show was / represented / contains, or why I chose to do this one first for right now, but it will become obvious, especially if you listen from the start of the sports news. Loaded into itunes the 3 parts will flow together pretty well, but after first listening all the way through once (I really think you might like the completeness of the experience, given the context), you can always detach / discard the first part and just archive parts b and c. I was taping back then using one of those mains plug timers with the pins for 15 min periods, so I must have known I’d be out at the start, and the tape kicked in 5 minutes early. If I get a chance I’ll do a full tracklisting for the wiki site over the weekend, but for now, just enjoy it.There will be about half a dozen more like this between now and end October, I hope. Below is a summary of the route technically. I had to switch the dolby B back on (I suspect like many, until I got a top flight tape deck in 1990 or so I tended to tape with dolby on and playback with dolby off, in the car / walkman etc) because the first go was very hissy. This is my third attempt using different settings etc, and the one that came out sounding closest to the tape, so there. I just look away from the screen and wing the EQ right up and right down, then back up slowly till it sounds right. Shocking, isn’t it? Let me know how it sounds. I monitored using various closed / open / in-ear headphones and playout systems, but am assuming most people, like me, will probably listen on an ipod/mp3 player, or a desktop computer linked to a reasonable stereo, but probably not a real audiophile setup. The feature I really like in the software I got is the graphic, neat little kicking analog VU meters: now that, I can understand.
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Download details:
Peel 1988-09-28a, R2 Sports Desk & R1 10pm news bulletin, 7′ 34″
17.3MB
Peel 1988-09-28b, 56′ 15″
128.7MB
Peel 1988-09-28c, incl. start of midnight news, 1hr 03′ 53″
146.2MB
- Dr Mango Strikes Back: November, 1989
Apart from an obvious edit after the first song, this is a continuous segment of Peel show. JP mentions a football score before the last track, which allowed me to date the show as being in the week from Monday 20th – Thursday 23rd November 1989. Sadly, there are no session tracks to allow me to pinpoint which of these days the recording is from.
Track listing:
-Kevin Sizier (?) – ? Soap opera song
-Sly Williams – I Believe in a Woman
-I, Ludicrous – Britische Architect
-Gary Clail and the On-U Sound System – A Man’s Place on Earth
-Elvis Hitler – ?
-Jordan Shittaka (sp?) & his Sisters – Dishiwa Denga
-Alan Martin & Bobby Nut – I’m Following Sheffield United
Length: [24:49]
Size: 22.7 Mb
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BKSZW5KT
I’ve also uploaded photos of the track listings of the cassettes from which this show, and last night’s 1981 mix, were taken:
- Efes Extra Strongly Recommended: 13th March, 1993
Right now I have a can of Efes Extra (Turkey’s finest beer offering) in one hand, the keyboard in the other, a pot of steaming hot chilli on the stove and a Fall compilation on the CD player, hopefully filtering through to my Turkish neighbours who can’t fail but be impressed by the likes of ‘Yeah, yeah, industrial estate’. I did a workshop for other teachers recently and was genuinely pleased when the Fall CD I was using for incidental background music was nicked - another one converted. Anyhows, back to business.
This show comes courtesy of dontsleepinthesubwaydarlin on the newsgroup, who has the following to say:
Session guests include Oil Seed Rape (1st session) and PJ Harvey (3rd session), John also premiers the new Fall single “Why Are people Grudgeful?” and generally appears to be having a grand old time. It’s thanks to this recording I discovered The Nectarine No 9 LP “A Sea With Three Stars”, which is one of my favorite discoveries. Hope you enjoy this recording as much as I do.
I’m sure we will. Here are details for your full downloading pleasure:
(Tape 1 Side 1) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RFPVQ0UV
(Tape 1 Side 2) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=993XDXUS
(Tape 2 Side 1) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E50LFQM0
(Tape 2 Side 2) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K4F3OHNJ
