Male Nurse

The Male Nurse were a 90's Scottish indie band from Edinburgh, Scotland, who evolved from a group called Lucid, consisting of vocalist Keith Farquhar, guitarists Alan Crichton and Andrew Hobson plus Craig Gibson, Spencer Smith and Martin Wilson, who had been at Leith Academy with Farquhar. The band released several singles in the 90's, before calling it a day sometime in the 00's. Over their lifespan, the band recorded two John Peel sessions and released three singles on the Guided Missile label, plus a split with Gilded Lil on Stupid Cat records in 2000. Somewhere in the midst of all this they crashed, burned, they lost members, including Crichton, who died of drug-induced misadventure in 1999, and acquired others, before imploding in the early noughties.
==Links to Peel==
Peel first played the Male Nurse's material in 1997 and they would later do two sessions for his show. Further material from the band was played and their track, My Own Private Patrick Swayze, later entered the 1998 Festive Fifty. 
==Festive Fifty Entries==
*1998 Festive Fifty: My Own Private Patrick Swayze #32
==Sessions==
1. Recorded: 1997-06-17. First Broadcast: 09 July 1997. Repeated: 15 October 1997
*My Idea / Too Sexy In A Bad Way / British Stuntmen / My Own Private Patrick Swayze
2. Recorded: 1998-01-27. First Broadcast: 26 February 1998. Repeated: 06 August 1998
*Afraid And Jarring / Male Midwife / Back On The Pills / The Vestibule Song / German Sleeps In My Bed
==Other Shows Played==
;1997
*20 May 1997: ‘I’m A Man (7 inch – G-D-R)’ Guided Missile
*27 May 1997: I'm A Man (7" - G-D-R) Guided Missile
*29 May 1997 (BFBS): 'I'm A Man (7"-G-D-R)' (Guided Missile)
*24 July 1997: Magic Circle In The Sky (7" - Magic Circle In The Sky / What Does Woman Want?) Guided Missile
*30 July 1997: Magic Circle in the Sky (7 inch single) Guided Missile
*05 August 1997: ‘Magic Circle in the Sky (7 inch )’ Guided Missile
*07 August 1997 (BFBS): 'Magic Circle In The Sky (7")' (Guided Missile)
*15 August 1997 (BBC World Service): Magic Circle In The Sky (7") Guided Missile
*21 August 1997 (BFBS): 'Magic Circle In The Sky (7")' (Guided Missile) (JP: 'What an excellent record that is!....I'm wearing their T-shirt, dark green it is, and I'm afraid it's got traces of this morning's breakfast on it, but apart from that, rather handsome I think, and misshapen as a result of being stretched around me too, unfortunately.')
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*15 April 1998 (BBC World Service): My Own Private P. Swayze (7") Guided Missile
*05 May 1998: My Own Private P. Swayze (7") Guided Missile
*12 May 1998: My Own Private P.Swayze (7") Guided Missile 
*21 May 1998: My Own Private P. Swayze (7") Guided Missile
*03 June 1998: My Own Private P. Swayze (7”) Guided Missile
*23 December 1998: 'My Own Private P. Swayze (7 inch)' (Guided Missile) FF #32
;2000
*22 March 2000: Male Nurse Tower (7" split with Gilded Lil) Stupid Cat
==External Links==
*Discogs
*Coffee Table Notes
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