16 May 1979

== Show ==
;Name
*John Peel Show
;Station
*BBC Radio One
;YYYY-MM-DD
*1979-05-16
;Comments
*In his introduction, Peel mentions Paul Morley's "uncharacteristically violent review" of the Cure's debut LP in the NME. This incited the band to record a response in the form of the session track 'Desperate Journalist In Ongoing Meaningful Review Situation', which uses the backing track of session recording 'Grinding Halt'.
*He plays a track from the new LP by former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green "more out of loyalty than anything else."
== Sessions ==
*Cure #2. First broadcast of session recorded 9th May 1979.
*Lurkers #4. Repeat of session recorded 24th January 1979 and first broadcast 30 January 1979.
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
== Tracklisting ==
*Devo: The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize (7") Virgin
:JP: "This is the #27 record in the BBC's charts." 
*Damned: Love Song (7") Chiswick
*Lurkers: Whatever Happened To Mary (Peel session)
*John Cooper Clarke: Valley Of Lost Women (LP - Disguise In Love) CBS
*Cure: Accuracy (Peel session)
*Thin Lizzy: Get Out Of Here (LP - Black Rose) Vertigo
*Linton Kwesi Johnson: Time Come (LP - Forces Of Victory) Island
*Peter Green: Slabo Day (LP - In The Skies) PVK
*Zeros: What's Wrong With Pop Group (7") ROK
*Pop Group: The Boys From Brazil (LP - Y) Radar
*Lurkers: Take Me Back To Babylon (Peel session)
*N***** Kojak: Massacre (7") Belmont
*Elvis Costello And The Attractions: Accidents Will Happen (7") Radar
:JP: "Do you find yourself getting bored with Elvis Costello? Write and tell me. No actually, don't."
*Cure: Subway Song (Peel session)
*Jerry Lee Lewis: Number One Lovin' Man (LP - Jerry Lee Lewis) Elektra
*Nina Hagen Band: Superboy (LP - Nina Hagen Band) CBS
:JP: "I bet parts of that are probably jolly rude if you speak German."
*Michael Chapman: Gamblers On The Shoreline (LP - Life On The Ceiling) Criminal
*Magazine: Feed The Enemy (LP - Secondhand Daylight) Virgin
*Specials: Gangsters (7") Two-Tone
*Lurkers: Out In The Dark (Peel session)
*Gang Of Four: At Home He's A Tourist (7") EMI
*Cure: Plastic Passion (Peel session)
*Brian James: Ain't That A Shame (7") BJ
*They Must Be Russians: Psycho Analysis (7") Gemi
*Geraint Watkins & The Dominators: In The Night (LP - Geraint Watkins & The Dominators) Vertigo
*Undertones: Billy's Third (LP - The Undertones) Sire
*Lurkers: See The World (Peel session) (tape flip)
*Hugh Mundell: That (Little) Short Man (12") Rockers
*Shapes: Wot's For Lunch Mum? (Not Beans Again!) (7" EP - Wot's For Lunch Mum?) Sofa
*Cure: Grinding Halt (Peel session)
:JP: "The band were so stung by Paul Morley's vigorous condemnation of their LP in the New Musical Express that they've taken the unusual step of retaliating on the air."
*Cure: Desperate Journalist In Ongoing Meaningful Review Situation (Peel session)
*Skids: Masquerade (7") Virgin
:JP: "I was just sitting here ruminating as to why it's possible that those NME boys may have taken against the Cure so much. I can't understand that really. I mean, there are a great many bands who deserve much harder condemnation than that I think."
*Iggy Pop: Don't Look Down (LP - New Values) Arista
:JP: "Well that was a bit dull, wasn't it? But there again, we can't have it easy all the time."
*Howlin' Wolf: Going Down Slow (details not given)
== File ==
;Name
*1979-05-16 John Peel Radio 1 DB077+DB078.mp3
;Length
*2:00:14
;Other
*File created from DB077 and DB078 of Derby Box, digitised by RF
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;Available
*Mooo
Category:1979
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