26 August 1980

== Show ==
; Name
*John Peel Show
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1980-08-26
; Comments
*An amusing letter from one Gordon McNichol about Brechin City Football Club.
*Another letter discusses the scarcity of the Joy Division flexidisc.
*Pronounces The The - "The Thee".
*Gets very enthusiastic about the Simple Minds track.
*The 400 Box file is the complete show in AM quality. The Hinton Box file contains some of the tracks in stereo: these are marked with a §. The Derby Box file is the first 94 minutes in excellent stereo FM.
*Tracklisting also available at Tishbriz's John Peel Book at Flickr. Many thanks to Tishbriz for sharing the information. 
== Sessions ==
*Young Marble Giants, first and only session. Official release on The Peel Sessions, Strange Fruit WMD 672025.
*Big In Japan, first and only session (repeated from 1979)
== Tracklisting ==
*Files a & c begin at start of show.
*Dead Kennedys: Kill The Poor (album - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables) Cherry Red B RED 10
*Selecter: The Whisper (7") Chrysalis CHS S1
*Roky Erickson & The Aliens: Cold Night For Alligators (album - Roky Erickson And The Aliens) CBS S CBS 84463
*Young Marble Giants: Search For Mr Right (session) §
*Cravats: Precinct (7" - Precinct / Who's In Here With Me?) Small Wonder SMALL TWENTY-FOUR
*Harlem Spirit: Dem A Sus (In A Moss) (7") CSS CSS005
*A Certain Ratio: Shack Up (7") Factory Benelux / Les Disques Du Crépescule FAC BN 1-004
*Heartbreakers: Born To Lose (7" b-side Chinese Rocks) Track
*Big In Japan: Suicide High Life (session) §
*Dead Kennedys: When You Get Drafted (album - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables) Cherry Red B RED 10
*Young Marble Giants: Posed By Models (session)
*Modern English: Home (v/a 12" - Presage(s)) 4AD BAD 11
*Pablo & Rockers Allstars: Black Ants Lane (split 7" with Tetrack - Let's Get Together / Black Ants Lane) Pablo International
*Buzzcocks: Are Everything (7" - Are Everything / Why She's A Girl From The Chainstore) United Artists BP 365
*Saal 2: Angst Vorm Tanzen (7") Zick Zack ZZ 5
*Bathroom Renovations: Intensely Henna'd (v/a album - Unzipping The Abstract (Bands Of The Manchester Musicians' Collective) MMC MMC 1
*Young Marble Giants: Brand New Life (session) §
*The The: Controversial Subject (7") 4AD AD 10
(tape flip)
*Dead Kennedys: Let's Lynch The Landlord (album - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables) Cherry Red B RED 10
*Sky High: Red Light (EP - Ghettos Of Your Own Kind) Revana
*Soft Boys: Kingdom Of Love (7" EP - Near The Soft Boys EP) Armageddon AEP 002 §
*Young Marble Giants: Final Day (session) §
*Big In Japan: Don't Bomb China Now (session) §
*Bobby Patterson: I'm In The Wrong (7" EP Charly Triple Dynamite) Charly R&B (also accidentally plays the end of the previous track..)
*Dead Kennedys: Drug Me (album - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables) Cherry Red B RED 10
*Simple Minds: Constantinople Line (album - Empires And Dance) Zoom / Arista SPART 1140
*Merger: You Are To Me As Love (album - Armageddon Time) Emergency ERD 010
*File c cuts out
*Slow Twitch Fibres: Let's Face The Music And Dance
*Young Marble Giants: Nita (session) §
*Siouxsie & The Banshees: Trophy
*Prince Far-I & Congo Ashanti Roy: 83 Struggle
*Big In Japan: Goodbye (session) §
*File a ends at end of show.
== File ==
;Name
*a) 1980-08-26 John Peel Radio 1.flac
*b) BH008 JP 1980-08-26 Side A
*c) 1980-08-26 Peel Show DB189.mp3
;Length
*a) 01:59:51
*b) 00:26:28
*c) 01:33:43
;Other
*a) Complete show. File created from T275 of the 400 Box.
*b) File created from BH008 of the Hinton Box. Many thanks to Brian and Colin.
*c) File created from DB189 of Derby Box, digitised by Weatherman22.
;Available
*a) 
*b) Mooo
*c) Mooo
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