2002 Festive Fifty

*The penultimate chart hosted by John Peel was also the third chart where all the tracks were played in a single show (the previous occasions were 1993 and 1997).
*Vote rigging plagued this year's Fifty, with the Dawn Parade being particular victims.
*Top scoring artists were Low, with three entries.
== Shows ==
*26 December 2002: #50-#01
== The Festive Fifty of 2002 ==
#thumb|330x330pxSaloon: "Girls Are The New Boys" (LP - (This Is) What We Call Progress)
#Cinerama: "Quick, Before It Melts"
#Miss Black America: "Talk Hard"
#Nina Nastasia: "Ugly Face"
#AntiHero: "Rolling Stones T-Shirt"
#M.A.S.S.: "Hey Gravity"
#Laura Cantrell: "Too Late For Tonight"
#Pinhole: "So Over You"
#Marc Smith Vs Safe n' Sound: "Identify The Beat"
#Ballboy: "All The Records On The Radio Are Sh*te"
#Miss Black America: "Miss Black America"
#Yeah Yeah Yeahs: "Bang"
#Cinerama: "Careless"
#Half Man, Half Biscuit: "The Light At The End Of The Tunnel"
#White Stripes: "Dead Leaves & The Dirty Ground"
#Low: "In The Drugs"
#Asa-Chang & Junray: "Hana"
#Low: "Canada"
#Coin Op: "Democracies"
#Belle & Sebastian: "You Send Me (Live At Peel Acres)"
#Datsuns: "In Love"
#The Fall: "Susan vs Youthclub"
#Jeffrey Lewis: "The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song"
#Ballboy: "Where Do The Nights Of Sleep Go? (When They Do Not Come To Me)"
#Cornershop: "Staging The Plaguing Of The Raised Platform"
#Saloon: "Have You Seen The Light?"
#White Stripes: "Fell In Love With A Girl"
#Cranebuilders: "You're Song"
#The Delgados: "Mr Blue Sky (Session)"
#Bearsuit: "Drinkink"
#Ladytron: "Seventeen"
#Boom Bip & Doseone: "Mannequin Trapdoor"
#Von Bondies: "It Came From Japan"
#Wire: "99.9 (Session)"
#McLusky: "Alan Is A Cowboy Killer"
#Low: "(That's How You Sing) Amazing Grace"
#AntiHero: "You Got Nothing (Session)"
#Half Man, Half Biscuit: "Breaking News"
#Cinerama: "Cat Girl Tights"
#McLusky: "To Hell With Good Intentions"
#Burning Love Jumpsuit: "Cheerleader"
#Interpol: "Obstacle 1"
#Melys: "So Good"
#The Delgados: "Coming In From The Cold"
#Miss Black America: "Infinite Chinese Box"
#Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster: "Celebrate Your Mother"
#D4: "Get Loose"
#Mum: "Green Grass Of Tunnel"
#Aphrodisiacs: "This Is A Campaign"
#Dawn Parade: "The Hole In My Heart"
== Availability ==
*The entire rundown (minus the interstitial records), separated into fifty tracks, was originally circulated via John Peel Torrent Compilation 1 of 17 (Festive Fifties 1992-2004 Plus Others).
*The 500 Box version contains the entire show (minus one track at the very start) and some of the following in seven files: see the date page for download links.
*This prompted user bty997881 to offer the whole show, recorded on DAT: please contact the Peel Mailing List with regard to obtaining this version.Category:2002
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