31 August 1978

== Show ==
; Name
*John Peel Show
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1978-08-31
; Comments
*"Well hello honeybunchers, this is the Post Birthday Peel. Back in your midst with a session from the Desperate Bicycles to whom I was speaking this very morning on a matter which I'll discuss with you later, if I remember. Among the records a track from the new Feelgoods album, odds and ends from a new Eno LP, three more from Radio Stars from their newie, something unpronounceable in Welsh, 4 from Wire from their new album, which sounds excellent, I've only heard one side of it, but that was very good indeed, also a new Skids single, so the whole thing sounds pretty irresistible, I think you'll agree."
*
*Around 23 minutes of the show is missing, 10 minutes near the end of the show, with the rest missing due to tape flips.
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== Sessions ==
*Desperate Bicycles only session, recorded 4th July 1978, repeat, first broadcast 10 July 1978.
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
== Tracklisting ==
*Files 1,3 begin
*start of show, at end of side a of T029
*Buzzcocks: Noise Annoys (b-side of 7" - Love You More) United Artists @
*tape flip to side b of T029, and jumps straight to next track
*Dr Feelgood: Down At The Doctors (7") United Artists UP 36444
*(JP: 'Well I've drawn to your attention before, the fact that in the middle of that, somebody shouts "Eight bars of piano" and then there's no piano to be heard. Well I've found out why. Apparently the original piano track recorded was so awful they just left it out. Down At The Doctors and those are Dr Feelgood. And another track from them later on in the programme. This very morning I went down to see the Desperate Bicycles in their rehearsal room in New Cross New Cross and interestingly enough the building where there's room is that's full of bicycles. I'm not quite sure what it all means but it's all to do with the TV programme in which they're going to be involved later on and this is the first number from them tonight it's called Smoke Screen you know.')
*Desperate Bicycles: Smoke Screen (session) @
*(JP: ‘First from the Desperate Bicycles and it’s called Smoke Screen and while that’s going on, Paul Gambaccini has walked in silently and sat down beside behind me rather, and I’m not quite sure what this means either, it seems rather sinister. Jackson Browne from the album Late For The Sky, and while it’s going on, I’ll find out what the man Gambaccini wants, this is Before The Deluge.’)
*Jackson Browne Before The Deluge (album - Late For The Sky) Asylum W 43007
*(JP: 'And it’s always nice to hear Jackson Browne’s tune and there it went again from the LP Late For The Sky and that was Before the Deluge. And for any of you who worried about it, it’s rather good being 39 and here I am stuffed with curry and snug in a new jumper and as cute and curvaceous when I was a mere boy of 38. So, don’t worry if you’re approaching 39 yourselves which you probably aren’t. These are the Rich Kids and from their LP Ghosts Of Princes In Towers, this is Burning Sounds which you may had heard them render on this programme recently.) 
*Rich Kids: Burning Sounds (album - Ghost Of Princes In Towers) EMI EMC 3263
*(JP: 'Those are the Rich Kids from the LP Ghosts Of Princes In Towers and that’s Burning Sounds, says he wrestling with bits of paper and trying not to make too much noise with them. Uh, the new LP by Eno is called Music For Films and the track I’m about to play you is called M386 and features Percy Jones, Phil Collins and Paul Rudolf in addition to the man Eno himself who’s pictured looking very moody indeed on the back sleeve of the LP. And, er, there’s a little note of explanation on it in fact saying, this album is a compilation of fragments from my recorded work over the last two or three years. Some of it was made specifically for use of soundtrack material, some of it was made for other reasons which found its way into films, most of it is previously unissued in any form. Well, here’s a bit of it and I’ve got so more from it later on in the programme. Hold on a second. Here we go. Ready.")
*File 3 cuts out during above track
*Brian Eno: M386 (album - Music For Films ) Editions EG EGED 5
*JP refers to last night's birthday party in which in which everybody behaved abominably including himself. Hundreds of stars were there - 'well, the brother of one of the Exits')
*Upsetters: Congo Dub (b-side of double single Row Fisherman by Congos) Upsetter (also known as Fisher Man Dub by Lee Perry)
*Streetwalkers: Toenail Draggin' (album - Downtown Flyers) Vertigo 6360 123
*Skids: Sweet Suburbia (7") Virgin VS 227
*tape flip to side a of T030, jumps to next track
*Desperate Bicycles: Sarcasm (session) @
*Wire: Practice Makes Perfect (album - Chairs Missing) Harvest SHSP 4093
*Wire: French Film Blurred (album - Chairs Missing) Harvest SHSP 4093
*Wire: Another The Letter (album - Chairs Missing) Harvest SHSP 4093
*Wire: Men 2nd (album - Chairs Missing) Harvest SHSP 4093
*(JP - 'The Wire, confirming their status as one of the most intriguing of the new bands') Promises the other four tracks on the first side of the album the following evening. We then need to wait unil after JP's holidays to hear the rest of the album as he doesn't imagine that Paul Gambaccini will play much of it in his absence...
*Nutmegs: Story Untold (v/a album - Alan Freed's Top 15)) Roulette R-42042
*Current issue of the Melody Maker features an interview with Peel and Walters, 'there are one or two inaccuracies caused no doubt by editing, for example only a loonie was say this was bland.....'
*Larry Graham And Graham Central Station: Pow (album - My Radio Sure Sounds Good To Me) Warner BSK 3175
*Shwn: Carriad
*Devo: Uncontrollable Urge (album - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!) Virgin V 2106
*Stealers Wheel: You Put Something Better Inside Of Me (album - Stuck In The Middle With You - The Best Of Stealers Wheel) A&M LP 394 708-1
*tape flip to side b, jumps to next track
*Desperate Bicycles: Skill (session) @
*Mistic: Forward With Jah Orthodox () Upsetter (starts playing at the wrong speed, first time in a month he claims)
*Radio Stars: (I've Got Dem Old) Sex In Chains Blues (Again Mama) Part I (album - Holiday Album) Chiswick CWK 3001
*Radio Stars: Sitting In The Rain (album - Holiday Album) Chiswick CWK 3001
*Radio Stars: The Real Me (album - Holiday Album) Chiswick CWK 3001
*JP reports the buzz from his correspondents and contacts in the music industry regarding the following band...
*Cravats: Gordon (7") Small Wonder CH 004
*Ashley Hutchings And Friends: The Broken Hornpipe (album - Kickin' Up The Sawdust) Harvest @
*Ashley Hutchings And Friends: Ricketts Hornpipe (album - Kickin' Up The Sawdust) Harvest @
*timecheck: 23:43:40
*Desperate Bicycles: Teacher's Prayer (session) @
*Dr. Feelgood: Night Time (album - Private Practice) United Artists UAG 30184
* tape cuts out, at 23:48:35
* End section of show found on T052
* Rezillos: I Like It (album - Can't Stand The Rezillos) Sire K 56530
* Tracks marked @ also on File 2 but in FM quality
== File ==
;Name
*1) 1978-08-31 Tapes 029 030 and 052.mp3
*2) 1978-08-31 Peel Show JS18.mp3
*3) 1978-08-31 Peel Show JS68.mp3
;Length
*1) 1:37:06
*2) 19:56
*3) 15:16
;Other
*1) AM quality. File created from T029 and T030 of 400 Box, digitised by Weatherman22, with end track discovered on T052 and digitised by User:Dr Mango.
*2) Many thanks to Jimmy. Very good FM stereo recording. Created from JS18 of JS Tapes, digitised by Weatherman22.
*3) Many thanks to Jimmy. Very good FM stereo recording. Created from JS68 of JS Tapes, digitised by Weatherman22.
;Available
*1) 
*2,3) Mooo
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