25 September 1978

== Show ==
; Name
*John Peel Show
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1978-09-25
; Comments
*Plays Teenage Kicks twice on the run. Says it is the first time he's done this for a long time. Claims Pig said Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey sounded like Loudon Wainwright III when JP played the record the previous evening.
*Start of show: "Well, it looks like being a fairly rugged week, I must say, as the champions of Europe and lords of mankind face a stiffy sort of a test on Wednesday night. On tonight's programme, though, we have no such considerations: the two sessions from the Skids and from Motörhead. Among the records, Europeans wearing silly wigs and hoping to meet a Beatle: also Penetration, Jean Cooper Clarke, David Bowie, Sabbath, Wire, the Undertones, Jam, all the usual people, and we start with...."
*The Roadshow is going to Sheffield at the weekend.
== Sessions ==
*Motörhead, one and only session. Recorded 1978-09-18. Available on BBC Live & In-Session (Sanctuary Midline).
*Skids, #2 (rpt.) Recorded 1978-09-29. Aavailable on The Virgin Years boxset (CD6), Virgin (2015). #1, #2 & #3 released in 2009 as digital download and on streaming services.
== Tracklisting ==
File d begins
*Radio Stars: 'No Russians In Russia (LP-Holiday Album)' (Chiswick)
:(JP: 'Haven't heard phasing like that since about 1968.')
*Europeans: 'Europeans (7")' (Heartbeat)
*Skids: 'Hope And Glory' (Peel Session)
*David Bowie: 'Ziggy Stardust (2xLP-Stage)' (RCA Victor)
*Motörhead: 'Louie Louie' (Peel Session)
*Brinsley Schwarz: 'I Cried My Last Tear (7"-(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love And Understanding)' (United Artists) Allen Toussaint cover.
*Penetration: 'Firing Squad (7")' (Virgin)
*Tubeway Army: 'Bombers (7")' (Beggars Banquet)
*Roman Stewart & Barrington Spence: 'No Peace Until (7")' (Hungry Town)
File a begins
*John Cooper Clarke: 'Valley Of Lost Women (LP-Disguise In Love)' (CBS) S CBS 83132
*Skids: 'The Saints Are Coming' (Peel Session)
*Saints: 'Every Day's A Holiday, Every Night's A Party (LP-Prehistoric Sounds)' (Harvest) SHSP 4094
*Motörhead: 'Keep Us On The Road' (Peel Session)
File a ends
Files b, c begin
*Black Sabbath: 'A Hard Road (LP-Never Say Die!)' (Vertigo)
File e cuts in
*Wire: 'Practice Makes Perfect (LP-Chairs Missing)' (Harvest)
Files b & c tape break
*Whirlwind: 'Tore Apart (Compilation LP-It's Rock And Roll Vol Two)' (Super Beeb)
*Cravats: 'Gordon (7")' (Small Wonder)
*Lyn's All Stars: 'Return Dub (7"-Norris Reid, Got To Return)' (Lucky Star)
File e ends
*Skids: 'Dossier Of Fallibility' (Peel Session)
Files b & c restart
*Motörhead: 'Tear Ya Down' (Peel Session)
File d tape break
*Jam: 'Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (7")' (Polydor)
Files b and c tape edit
*Undertones: Teenage Kicks (EP) Good Vibrations
:(JP: 'I've not done this for ages but I think we ought to hear that again.')
*Undertones: Teenage Kicks (EP) Good Vibrations
:(JP: 'That is a mighty, mighty record you know. Come the end of the year, that will be battling with 'Suspect Device' and 'Shot By Both Sides' as my record of the year I think.')
File d restarts
*Leyton Buzzards: 'Villain (7"-19 And Mad)' (Small Wonder)
*Devo: 'Space Junk (LP-Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!)' (Virgin)
*Damned: 'New Rose (7")' (Stiff)
*Frankie Miller: 'Darlin' (7")' (Chrysalis)
*Skids: 'Six Times' (Peel Session)
*Dennis Brown Meets Jah Bop: 'Tribulation (12")' (3 In 1) starts at wrong speed
*Rich Kids: 'Young Girls (LP-Ghosts Of Princes In Towers)' (EMI)
*Motorhead: 'I'll Be Your Sister' (Peel Session)
Files b,c end
*Buzzcocks: 'Sixteen Again (LP-Love Bites)' (United Artists)
File d ends
== File ==
;Name
*(a) 1978-09-25 Peel Show T005.aif
*(b) 25-09-78000.mp3
*(c) JP19780925.mp3
*(d) 1978-09-25 John Peel Radio 1 (incomplete) DB016+DB020+DB017
*(e) John Peel segment 1978.mp3
;Length
*(1) 00:14:55
*(b) 01:02:14
*(c) 00:43:10
*(d) 01:49:05
*(e) 00:11:23
;Other
*(a) Created from T005 of 400 Box, digitised by Rok
*(b) 25 September 1978 show includes first track (and second announced) of file created from T100 of 400 Box, then continues from 24.37.
*(c) Reduced version of file (b), with just the 25 September tracks.
*(d) File created from DB016 DB020 & DB017 of the Derby Box. Many thanks to Chris and Rob.
*(e) Many thanks to Tim for acquisition and digitisation.
;Available
*(a) Mooo
*(b) 
*(c) [2]
*(d) Mooo
*(e) Mooo
;Footnotes
Category:1978
Category:Peel shows
Category:Peel Shows (Incomplete)
Category:Available online
Category:400 Box
Category:Shared
Category:Wrong Speed Moment
Category:Derby Box
Category:Tim's Tapes