19 February 1980

== Show ==
;Name
*John Peel Show
;Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1980-02-19
; Comments
*Start of show: "Hello to you. I’d be enormously worried, you know, if any of our BBC Sports people ever showed any admiration or affection for Liverpool. Tonight, after they’d beaten Forest 2-0, the match analyst said rather glumly, “Well, they’re three points ahead at the top of the first division, “ but then added bravely, “but they’ve only got one game in hand”! I thought that was terrific. Anyway, on tonight’s programme a session from the Glass Torpedoes and from the Damned. And amongst the records, I’m So Hollow, Scritti Politti, Nightshift, Psychedelic Furs, Killing Joke, the Selecter, Joy Division, Siouxsie & The Banshees – a lot of other people besides. And among the records also, a German ska record, or something close to it anyway, Cindy & The Barbi Dolls, the Pinkoes and the Bodies, all of them making their debuts on the programme besides. This is a single from Tenpole Tudor."
*Incomplete show spread over three files, although with both the start and end present. Around 20 minutes is missing from the currently available recording, although a couple of tracks have been edited down with pause button.
*Peel has forgotten to bring with him requests from his gig at Leicester Polytechnic the previous weekend.
*Claims his mood is much better than on the night the Glass Torpedos session was first broadcast and he’d thought it sounded a bit flat.
*In response to the Defectors track, he says the righteous go to Anfield, as he will be doing this coming Saturday (when Liverpool would draw 1-1 with Ipswich.)
*The show ends with a track from Cleveland Crochet. A single by the band was later found in John Peel's Record Box.
== Sessions ==
*Damned #4 Repeat. First broadcast 29 October 1979. Recorded 1979-10-22.
**Session released on Sessions Of The Damned CD except for "Liar" (which is on The Radio One Sessions).
*Glass Torpedoes #1 Repeat of only session. First broadcast 24 January 1980. Recorded 1980-01-09.
**No known commercial release.
== Tracklisting ==
(File 1)
*Tenpole Tudor: Real Fun (single) Korova
*Damned: Smash It Up (session)
: (Peel relates how he drove into a London bus that afternoon.)
*Glass Torpedoes: This Is The End (session)
*Meadow Larks: Untrue
*Rod Taylor: Morning Train (LP – If Jah Should Come Now) Little Luke
*Tea Set: Parry Thomas (single) Waldo’s
*Bodies: Art Nouveau (single) Waldo’s
*Elvis Costello & The Attractions: Beaten To The Punch (LP – Get Happy!!) F-Beat
: (JP detects slight return of “twerps” in the music biz and voices disapproval of people who end sentences with “ya?” and/or use the word “bread” for money.)
*Pinkoes: Mr Smith (EP – Into The Red) Popular
*Damned: Just Can’t Be Happy (session)
*Scritti Politti: Messthetics (EP – Work In Progress 2nd Peel Session) Rough Trade/St Pancras
*Beat: Hands Off … She’s Mine (single) Go-Feet
*Glass Torpedoes: Something New (session) continues on new file
(File 2)
*Cindy & The Barbi Dolls: Voice In The Night (maxi-single – Isn’t Showbiz Wonderful) Not Major
*Siouxsie & The Banshees: Happy House (single) Polydor
:(JP: I was a little uncertain about it at first, but I’m learning to love it.)
*Die Fehlfarben: Abenteuer und Freiheit (7" - Gross Liebe/Abenteuer und Freiheit) Welt
*Joy Division: Transmission (single) Factory
*Big Jay McNeely: Deacon’s Hop (LP – Honkers And Screamers: Roots Of Rock n Roll, Vol 6) Savoy
*Damned: Liar (session)
*Mediations: War Mongers
*Glass Torpedoes: Tall Stories (session)
*Killing Joke: Pssyche (single – Wardance) Malicious Damage – edited
*Selecter: My Collie (Not A Dog) (LP – Too Much Pressure) 2 Tone – edited
*I’m So Hollow: I Don’t Know (7” – 1980: The First 15 Minutes) Neutron
(JP tries to play the Alternomen Unlimited album track, fails to line it up, plays a single instead) 
*Psychedelic Furs: Sister Europe (single) CBS
(JP: "Well, the link leading into that must be one of the most disastrous in the history of British radio. But - er - fun?") Mike Read, always on the lookout for hilarity, interjected a clip of this comment into his shows on a regular basis over the ensuing months.
*Alternomen Unlimited: Façade (LP – Objectivity: The Object Singles Album) Object
(File 3)
*Nightshift: Don't Rush The Good Things (single) Harvest (only 10 seconds on file)
*Defectors: Where The Righteous Go (7” – Baby maxi-single) Louder
*Damned: I’m So Bored (session) – cuts out
(jump to near end of show)
*Misfits: We Are 138 (12” EP – Beware) Plan 9 / Cherry Red
*Cleveland Crochet: Midnight Blues (LP – Cleveland Crochet & The Sugar Bees, Classic Cajun)
(end of show)
== File ==
;Name
*1) 217-800219b.aif
*2) 217-800219a.aif
*3) 216-800218+19.aif.mp3
;Length
*1) 50.00 (cuts off at 45.21)
*2) 45.38
*3) 33.20 (0.13 to 9.27, then continues with 18 February 1980)
;Other
*Files created from T217 and T216 of 400 Box. Please note that file names may not be the expected order. Many thanks to Roger and the original taper.
*Please note that the show of this date in the John Peel Torrent Compilation 8 of 17 (1967-1993) is in fact a Virgin in-store tape. For details, see 19 February 1980 (Virgin In-Store).
;Available
*Mooo Server (Roger).
Footnotes
Category:1980
Category:Peel shows
Category:Available online
Category: 400 Box
Category:Shared