01 November 1979

== Show ==
; Name
*John Peel Show
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1979-11-01
; Comments
*Show intro is missing.
*Peel recalls meeting the Cure at this year's Reading Festival, for which he acted as the compere.
*Madame X of the New York Blondes was rumoured to be Debbie Harry of Blondie.
*More records from Scandinavia (Mean Ones, Ebba Grön, Kriminella Gitarrer). See 29 October 1979.
*Peel explains the spiritual deity Snibri that he and John Walters worship - "the god of small coincidences which work to your advantage".
*A terrible Britt Ekland pun accompanies the second of the Swedish records, for which Peel subsequently apologises: "I'm after a morning programme to be honest with you. So, this is your hairy cup of cocoa coming down the A45 from Bury St Edmunds..."
== Sessions ==
*Dodgems Repeat of first and only session. Recorded 1979-09-07. First broadcast 24 September 1979.
== Tracklisting ==
(intro missing)
*Damned: Smash It Up (LP – Machine Gun Etiquette) Chiswick
*Dodgems: Lord Lucan Is Missing (Peel session)
:JP: "If the Dodgems themselves had disappeared after writing that song, they'd have contributed more to our lives I think than most people do in a lifetime."
*Cure: Jumping Someone Else's Train (7") Fiction
:JP: "Well I suppose really when it comes right down to it, it's the train bit that does it, but it's a very good single for all that and I must try and persuade some of the other lads to play it if I can, because I think it would be good to hear that on daytime radio."
*New York Blondes ft Madame X: Little GTO (7") London
*Cairo: I Like Bluebeat (7") Absurd
*Prince Buster: It's Burke's Law (12") Blue Beat
*Jam: Eton Rifles (7") Polydor
*Deaf Aids: Do It Again (7") Regional
*Wild Beasts: Minimum Maximum (7") Fried Egg
*Mean Ones: Sun On Mun (7") Rokit
*Dodgems: Muscle Beach (Peel session)
*Mikey Dread: Barber Saloon (LP - Evolutionary Rockers) Dread At The Controls
*Otis Redding: I've Been Loving You Too Long
*Killing Joke: Are You Receiving? (single) Malicious Damage
*File 2 cuts in below
*Linton Kwesi Johnson: Sonny's Lettah (single) Island
*Ze Popes: Sexy Pyjamas (7") Plurex
(tape flip on File 1)
*Essential Logic: Alkaline Loaf In The Area (LP - Beat Rhythm News) Rough Trade
*File 2 pauses
*Specials: A Message To You Rudy (7") Two-Tone
*File 2 resumes
*Dodgems: Baby You're So Science Fiction (Peel session)
*File 2 pauses
*Ebba Grön: Tyst För Fan (Shut The Hell Up) (7") Mistlur
*Protex: I Can Only Dream (7") Polydor
*Sugar Minott: World Of Sorrow (single) Lightning
*File 2 resumes
*Passions: Hunted (7") Fiction
*Swell Maps: Read About Seymour (7") Rough Trade
*Fantastic Baggys: Anywhere The Girls Are (Various LP - Pebbles Vol. 4) BFD
*Pathetix: What Do You Expect? (7") TJM
*Dodgems: Gotta Give It Up (Peel session)
:JP: "This next record - I keep hoping that people will write in and request it, and they haven't done yet. So I shall keep playing it until you do request it."
*File 2 ends
*Notsensibles: I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher (7") Redball
*TPI: She's Too Clever For Me (7") Clever
*Kriminella Gitarrer: 36 Patroner (7") Kloaak
*Militant Barry: Mojo Working (LP - Green Valley) Manic
*MX-80 Sound: Lady In Pain (Various LP - Subterranean Modern) Ralph
:JP: "(Adopts cheesy DJ voice) For those of you who'd rather hear lady of Spain, here's Les Paul!"
*Les Paul: Lady Of Spain
:News at midnight read by James Alexander Gordon.
== File ==
;Name
*1) 1979-11-01 John Peel Radio 1.flac
*2) John Peel 01 Nov 1979.mp3
;Length
*1) 1:59:55
*2) 0:27:42
;Other
*1) T171 of the 400 Box. Complete show apart from short gap where tape flips happen.
*2) Many thanks to Tim.
;Available
* 1) John Peel BBC Radio 1 (complete).mp3
* 2) Mooo
Category:1979
Category: Peel shows
Category:Available online
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